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Feed Links Widget

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As promised, here is the revised version of my Feed Links Widget. Just click the button and follow the wizard!

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Some Notes
Due to circumstances beyond my control, if Blogger changes the URL format for feeds this hack will break (and I will, of course, speed to fix it ;) ).

If you want to make it easier for others to add this hack, clicking the button below will add the button above to your sidebar.

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7 Responses

Johan Sundström

Out of curiosity: was there some trouble with using CDATA sections with the beta layouting system? I seem to recall something vague on the topic, but can't quite clutch it. :-)

Singpolyma

BETA layouts are actually processed as XML, which means that CDATA sections around JavaScript (according to convention) would kill the ability to have <data:/> tags inside, since they would be interpreted as escaped-out tags by the CDATA instead of as tags.

The way around this is, of course, to escape out the CDATA sections like so:

//&lt;[CDATA[
//]]&gt;

Does that answer the question? Or am I just rambling?

Ariel

This is really helpful. Is there a way I can make this widget work with my Feedburner feed instead of the raw Blogger Beta feeds?

Singpolyma

@Ariel – if you send me the URL(s0 to your feedburner feed(s) I can make a custom version of the widget for you :)

xema

Hi! Is there a way to read a feed? I mean I would like to show some feeds. And I don´t want that those links appear using JS (like AdSense). Is that possible modifying this widget? Thanx!

Stephen Paul Weber

@xema — this is JavaScript to make it easy and automatic, to link manually just create links in your code / a links widget.

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