The Firefox Stringle Configuration
One of the things I need to get around to doing is writing up the Stringle interface design pattern: OPML fed navigation sidebar, RSS fed toolbar, tabbed DHTML content area.
As a step towards that, here's a recipe for demonstrating the pattern in a Firefox web-browser:
- bookmark your navigation OPML file and configure it to 'Open in Sidebar' (you can find instructions here, where a pattern very similar to the Stringle pattern is also described); Grazr have justed started hosting OPML feeds on their site, so I'll post a couple of exemplar feeds in the next few days.
- save an RSS feed containing links to your applications as a Live Bookmark; you can launch all the tools contained in the feed into separate tabs by clicking on the live bookmark and selecting 'Open in tabs';
When I get a chance, I will tweak the
Stringle Profile Selector page so that it explitly links out to the OPML and RSS files used in the configuration.
PS As well as the free OPML hosting announcement, Grazr just announced a $1.5M round of financing as well as adding Dan Bricklin (co-creator of VisiCalc) to the Board of Directors. Congrats, chaps :-)
Posted by ajh59 at March 9, 2007 10:21 AM