reor Posted May 26, 2006 Posted May 26, 2006 http://www.google.com/ig - there you can customize Google. (Yes, just like MyYahoo) There's a SFN gadget, but it doesn't work. Who's working on it? Is it on hiatus? EDIT: A gadget is a small piece of programming, a module like an rss feed that you can put on your homepage to stay informed on the latest news.
Klaynos Posted May 26, 2006 Posted May 26, 2006 so one of the widgets or modules for the google yourown homepage is called a gadget? right well I've never seen one, I know that there's an rss feed from sfn, which dave wrote...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted May 26, 2006 Posted May 26, 2006 The gadget is trying to go to http://www.scienceforums.net/external.php?type=RSS when it should be http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/external.php?type=RSS It seems the main-page link to the feed (in the <head> tag) has the wrong URL. We'll have to get an admin to fix that and wait for Google to refresh the gadgets list.
Neil9327 Posted May 26, 2006 Posted May 26, 2006 The gadget is trying to go to http://www.scienceforums.net/external.php?type=RSS when it should be http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/external.php?type=RSS It seems the main-page link to the feed (in the <head> tag) has the wrong URL. We'll have to get an admin to fix that and wait for Google to refresh the gadgets list. Or alternatively you could use a redirect, which Google.com/ig appears to accept. To do this, the ScienceForums webmaster should upload a file named: external.php to the scienceforums root directory This should contain the following contents (use notepad. Save. Rename from .txt to .php): <?php header("Location: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/external.php?type=RSS"); ?> Then the google.com/ig browser will open this file, and redirect to the correct RSS feed URL. Note that the type=RSS is ignored. I know it will work because I've tried it on my own web site. In Google.com/ig click to enter your own RSS feed, and enter: http://dohat.com/external.php?type=RSS And the ScienceForums RSS feed will appear. It looks good
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted May 26, 2006 Posted May 26, 2006 We still need to fix the RSS tag, so that other people will not get the wrong RSS feed in their readers (some readers choke on redirects).
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted May 27, 2006 Posted May 27, 2006 http://www.google.com/ig/directory?num=24&q=science+forums&btnG=Search+Homepage+Content
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