The Absolute Button

[Jason Tate]

Google Toolbar has a new beta version (http://toolbar.google.com/T4/), and along with that comes the ability to add "buttons" to your toolbar. Well, AP.net has it's very own "button" that will show the latest news headlines as well as take you directly here with one click. Click here (http://toolbar.google.com/buttons/add?url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/absolute_button.xml) to install it.

[Ryan Imhof]

Sweet can you get one of these for firefox?

[Jason Tate]

Sweet can you get one of these for firefox?
What do you mean? You should be able to just use the AP RSS feed (www.absolutepunk.net/rss (http://www.absolutepunk.net/rss)) to grab news headlines for firefox.

[Ryan Imhof]

What do you mean? You should be able to just use the AP RSS feed (www.absolutepunk.net/rss (http://www.absolutepunk.net/rss)) to grab news headlines for firefox.
Right I have that, i thought you were talking about something else. There is this thing on firefox on the right top cornor thats a dropdown of serch engines/lyrics sites for quick searching instead of having to go to that site. Mabe if you made an AP.net one you could search for artist news with it.. or something.

[Jason Tate]

Right I have that, i thought you were talking about something else. There is this thing on firefox on the right top cornor thats a dropdown of serch engines/lyrics sites for quick searching instead of having to go to that site. Mabe if you made an AP.net one you could search for artist news with it.. or something.
I'd need a link to their API or something to see how they do it ...

[SingleDoubt]

What do you mean? You should be able to just use the AP RSS feed (www.absolutepunk.net/rss (http://www.absolutepunk.net/rss)) to grab news headlines for firefox.
im pretty sure there's a way to do this with Safari too, but i dunno how. does anyone know? that would definitely make my life easier.

[Ryan Imhof]

I'd need a link to their API or something to see how they do it ...
Whats API?

[ACA]

Yes it does. (http://takingbacksunday.com/sign/image.php?line1=MICROSOFT+IE&line2=SUCKS+ASS)

[raycer]

What do you mean? You should be able to just use the AP RSS feed (www.absolutepunk.net/rss (http://www.absolutepunk.net/rss)) to grab news headlines for firefox.

that does every forum though doesnt it? id only want the latest threads in the 'news' forum instead of all the ones in the general forum

[Jason Tate]

Whats API?
I'll look on their website for info ...

[Jason Tate]

that does every forum though doesnt it? id only want the latest threads in the 'news' forum instead of all the useless ones in the general forum
Nope, that just pulls *just* the news forum.

[ACA]

Whats API?
1) You don't "technically" need FireFox's "API" to create a search bar plugin.. it's a simple text script. I was considering writing a search plugin for the album art site, maybe I'll write one for this site if no one else wants to.. though it's not as big a deal, since I never search the news and havent looked at how this site actually performs searches.

2) Quick Wiki: An application programming interface (API) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface) is the interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_%28computer_science%29) that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for service to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them.

-ACA

[raycer]

Nope, that just pulls *just* the news forum.


weird, maybe im doing something wrong

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/raychemicalromance/rssapnet.jpg

[ACA]

weird, maybe im doing something wrong

Your feed is outdated.

-ACA

[Jason Tate]

1) You don't "technically" need FireFox's "API" to create a search bar plugin.. it's a simple text script. I was considering writing a search plugin for the album art site, maybe I'll write one for this site if no one else wants to.. though it's not as big a deal, since I never search the news and havent looked at how this site actually performs searches.

2) Quick Wiki: An application programming interface (API) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface) is the interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_%28computer_science%29) that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for service to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them.

-ACA
I can't find the link to it anywhere on mozilla's website to how they do it .. I'm still searching though.

[Jason Tate]

weird, maybe im doing something wrong

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/raychemicalromance/rssapnet.jpg
I know the problem you used firefoxes "add on automatically" feature from my link rel script in the code, let me change that .. and then if you uninstall, reinstall it .. you'll be fine.

Edit: Fixed the code on my end, readd the feed and you should be fine.

Second, man your font's big .. totally asses with my layout. O well.

[ACA]

http://www.absolutepunk.net/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=165

That's the correct RSS feed, for those interested.

-ACA

[raycer]

? threads from other forums (for example that first one is from the entertainment forum) show up, not just the news forum.. i reloaded the bookmark before i took that snapshot if thats what you mean by outdated..

[BrokenWindow]

AP, consider yourself lucky because my home page is set to ap.net! I am not happy with Google toolbar either, they always put shit on your comp. that you dont want.

[ACA]

I can't find the link to it anywhere on mozilla's website to how they do it .. I'm still searching though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines.php

Check out some simple ones and see what's going on... see if there's any for sites similar to how your's searches, in which case it will be easy to modify. That's the easy solution.

The complicated solution is to check out their resource on how to make your own.

-ACA

[raycer]

ahh

[ACA]

AP, consider yourself lucky because my home page is set to ap.net! I am not happy with Google toolbar either, they always put shit on your comp. that you dont want.

The Google Search Bar used to fucking own.

They then turned it into bloatware known as Google Deskbar.

I then found this: http://www.dqsd.net/ , can't recommend it enough. Doesn't have the onfocus bugs of Google, either!

-ACA

[Jason Tate]

? threads from other forums (for example that first one is from the entertainment forum) show up, not just the news forum.. i reloaded the bookmark before i took that snapshot if thats what you mean by outdated..
Fixed? You gotta make sure it's using the right URL for the feed, the old feed was for the entire site's RSS .. if you use www.absolutepunk.net/rss (http://www.absolutepunk.net/rss) - you'll get just the news.

[.mattie.]

i have the google tool bar for fire fox but the beta is only for IE so i guess we'll wait around like we always do.

[maledixtion]

i'm computer illiterate. what the hell is an rss feed and how do you install it? what does it do?

[raycer]

Fixed? You gotta make sure it's using the right URL for the feed, the old feed was for the entire site's RSS .. if you use www.absolutepunk.net/rss (http://www.absolutepunk.net/rss) - you'll get just the news.

yah sorry, i posted that after i saw the answer :)

[weworemasks]

this sites my homepage, so fuck it.