October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Add a Feed to My Yahoo! with a Right-Click
Speed up the time it takes to add RSS feeds to My Yahoo! with Internet Explorer.
Adding an RSS feed to My Yahoo! isn’t a complex process, but it does involve some copying, pasting, clicking, and generally breaking out of the flow of reading a site. With a bit of browser hacking, you can reduce the friction of adding sites to My Yahoo! by adding a context menu entry.
A context menu is the menu that pops up when you right-click an element on a web page (or Ctrl-click it on a Mac). The context part of its name refers to the fact that different choices appear in different situations. For example, when you right-click a link, you have the options to “Open Link in New Window,” Copy Link Location, Bookmark This Link, and others. In another context, such as when clicking an image or clicking highlighted text, you have different choices in the menu.
If you’ve been reading personal weblogs for a while, you’ve probably seen many variations of the white-on-orange XML buttons that indicate a link to an RSS feed, and if not you can find some examples [Hack #35] in this book.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could right-click one of these buttons and have the option to “Add to My Yahoo!”? That would save you quite a few steps, and you wouldn’t have to break from the site you’re currently reading to add the feed. This hack shows how to add this context menu entry in Internet Explorer.
The Code
Much like a bookmarklet [Hack #28] , any JavaScript that runs via ...
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.