dude, i don't even know what rss stands for

Honestly, I'm with subcultured. I haven't got the foggiest idea what an RSS feed is, and I've never used one in my life. I see the button everywhere, but I've never actually clicked on one. o_o

IE 7 comes with an RSS tool. Basically, you add the URL that the rss link gives you to your RSS feeder/reader. That will automatically check for updates to that site, and will bring back a link to you if there's something new there to read. That way you don't always have to go to the site to check to see - the site checks, and you only go to the site once you know there's something there. :)

silentkitty
Honestly, I'm with subcultured. I haven't got the foggiest idea what an RSS feed is, and I've never used one in my life. I see the button everywhere, but I've never actually clicked on one. o_o

I did once, it brought me to a page full of HTML Codes.

Yeah, I just clicked on mine and it did the same thing. Then I tried to add it into Google's RSS feed thing and it said "this page doesn't have an RSS feed". So I gave up.

It's not HTML, it's XML! ^^

I think...

Anyway, I clicked on the RSS link for one of my comics in Firefox and it made a nice bookmark for me that lists the latest 3 updated pages or something. It's pretty cool, but I don't actually use it...

I think it stands for something inane and stupid (like MOST tech initialisms), it's something like "Really Simple Script", or is that "Style"...?

Really Simple Syndication. :)

The BBC tells me often, though until now I'd no idea what it did, and I can't see myself using it.

Yeah, damn you, I just remembered the last part of the name. :lol!

Hmm, all it does when I click on it in IE7 is give me a list of the text from recent pages, the same with SeaMonkey except it's not formatted right. Firefox 2 is the best, that bookmark thing is actually useful.

ozoneocean
Yeah, damn you, I just remembered the last part of the name. :lol!

*Win* ;)

It isn't a huge deal, it's just a matter of convenience. :) Imagine you have 5 email accounts. Rather than having to go someplace and check all 5 of them all the time, you just use Outlook or something which will store the info and go get it for you periodically.

it seems this guy is using some kind of RSS feed to see all of his favorite comics update in one page...anyone know how to do this?

http://moontang.net/py-webcomic/ [moontang.net]

lol
yea i saw that before

subcultured
it seems this guy is using some kind of RSS feed to see all of his favorite comics update in one page...anyone know how to do this?

Hay, I'm that guy. ;)

The application is a small python script that really just scrapes images off of webpages. For any comic you want to follow, you give it a URL of the "latest comic" page and a regex (search string) that helps it locate the image. When you run the script, it caches each comic locally and produces an HTML page for viewing them. Then you just run the script semi-frequently, and voila: regularly updated comics.

A friend of mine maintains the software: http://lfod.us/sw/py-webcomic/ [lfod.us]. Check it out.

As a side-note, it might not be windows-friendly, since it makes use of file system links (which NTFS might or might not support).

thanks for the info!