Comments on: WizaRSS: a wizard player based on RSS

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:02:08 +0000

How about this proof of concept slideshow, which allows you to stop through bookmarked sites on delicious. deiShow

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:01:00 +0000

I forgot to say this only makes sense for wizards that SHOW something – not for wizards that DO something (install software, parse some XML, …), which probably means a better name for them would be a “tutorial”.

So you’re right, Luc.

By: LVB

LVB — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:40:00 +0000

Some remarks:

1) a real wizard does not always work purely sequential: it can have a decision tree where the path is determined by answers to questions.

2) the internal structure of a ‘wizard page’ is of more importance than the sequential sequence of the pages. RSS itself has a rather limited and fixed structure (link/title/description/category etc), if you need more you have to rely on HTML and CSS inside the description. IMHO for creating wizards you need a specific XML vocabulary rather than the RSS spec

3) A wizard is not the same thing as a tutorial. WizaRSS is probably better for creating tutorials than for creating wizards.

By: Pascal Van Hecke

Pascal Van Hecke — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:59:00 +0000

What about http://pascal.vanhecke.info/wp-content/upload_files/wizaRSS_S5/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwizarss.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml ?

More at http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2005/09/28/visualising-rss-playing-with-wizarss-and-s5/