flash RSS viewer: feedback needed

[Flashmatazz]

Hi all,

www.arjengosman.nl/rss

a project for my study. It's not totally finished yet, but after a lot of blood sweat and tears I'm at the point now that I really would like some user input.

So please have a look, try everything and then let me know what you think of it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

p.s. at the moment it's running on a webserver installed on an old pc. hopefully it keeps running while I sleep.... :)

[odedvard]

Hi all,

www.arjengosman.nl/rss

a project for my study. It's not totally finished yet, but after a lot of blood sweat and tears I'm at the point now that I really would like some user input.

So please have a look, try everything and then let me know what you think of it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

p.s. at the moment it's running on a webserver installed on an old pc. hopefully it keeps running while I sleep.... :)

Pretty cool man, i had to close it out because of a loop when i tried to view a feed that i added. other than that greta job the design looks good. Can't wait to see it when its fully functonable.

[Jeff Wheeler]

created an infinite loop and died... :(

looks cool though

[Flashmatazz]

Really? That's strange 'cause I didn't encounter that problem before. I'll see if I can find the problem.

One thing I noticed in the database was that www.kirupa.com was added but this is not a valid url for an RSS feed so that might be the problem. It shouldn't die on it though.

@bombingpixels: when exactly did it die? Also when trying to add a feed?

leaves me to say: "calling all Kirupians to have a look and a testdrive and let me know if you encounter problems, would do things differently etc."

Big thanks.

[mlk]

no problems here; though i haven't tried to log & stuff...

what are the percentages bars for ?

and how did you customize the right-click flash menu ? is it something specific of mx2004 ? I'm really puzzled..

good site !

[Jeff Wheeler]

it's working now, very nice job

[tedc]

I read something about customizing the flash menu, its in the flashmx04 documentation... It is awesome I think.... not fond of the bevel on the entire layout, but I love the drop down on the left side... No rollovers on the main nav? Call me old fashioned but I expected them haha ...nice work...

[Flashmatazz]

Thanks people.

No further comments about the functionality? 'cause that's my main concern ATM, not so much the design.
One thing that is made clear though is that I need some validation before a feed is added to check if it's a valid RSS feed or not. :)

Any more comments are welcome.

Cheers.

@mlk: those percentages are what I've called the 'quality' of a feed. It is calculated with it's rating, and the number of hits the feed received compared to the total amount of hits of all feeds contained within the reader.

[Flashmatazz]

Nobody else have questions/comments regarding the functionality?