Then, just point any ajax enabled browser at the runTests.php file. You can see it in action here.

Unfortunately, I could not think of any nice cross-language way to write the expect condition, and so I wrote some scripts (similar to Sam Ruby’s scripts) to statically convert the python expect condition to php. Writing the correct expect condition is much harder than I thought. My goal is to port about 1000 or so feedparser tests that I care about (out of the 3000 that exist) and make changes to Magpie without regressing anything. Then I will put this branch version of Magpie back into the Gregarius trunk.

1. Why are you stealing my newlines?

   For some strange reason newlines at the end of files seem to be eaten. Take a look at these two php files.
   
< ?php
echo "This string has no newline at the end";
?>

   and
   
< ?php
echo "This first string has a newline at the end\n";
?>

   If you wget these two files (file1, file2) you will see that they are exactly the same. Who took my newline at the end of the second file?

2. Why don’t you be polite and flush?

   This is a slightly more serious problem as it prevents Gregarius’ serverpush method for updating feeds from working on my dreamhost server. I took a very simple serverpush example from the XUL Planet Developer Guide and put it on my dreamhost server.
   
< ?php
  header('Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary="rn9012"');

     print "--rn9012\n";
     print "Content-type: application/xml\n\n";
     print "< ?xml version='1.0'?>\n";
     print "First Part\n";
     print "--rn9012\n";
     flush();

     sleep(5);
     print "Content-type: application/xml\n\n";
     print "< ?xml version='1.0'?>\n";
     print "Second Part\n";
     print "--rn9012--\n";

   ?>

If you are using a Gecko browser and you point to this file on a dreamhost server, there will be a 5 second pause and you will only see the second part. Compare this with the same file on the xulplanet webserver, where you see the first part and then after a 5 second pause the second part.

If you have any ideas about what is going on, please let me know. You can find all these files (and their sources) here.

Screenshots

You can edit the output by editing a template file just like you would do for a regular Gregarius theme.

Download

Jan 10, 2006. Download version 0.3.2

Older Versions

• Jan 10, 2006. Version 0.3.2
  • Prevented the icon from appearing when you were not logged in.
  • Changed the default config options to a wordpress.com blog
• Nov 26, 2005. Version 0.3.1
  • Prevented the icon from appearing when you were not logged in.
  • Changed the default config options to a wordpress.com blog
• Nov 20, 2005. Version 0.3
  • Now checks the admin cookie for all items and not just private items.
  • Bug fix for posting as blog items as a draft. Thanks Phil.
  • User config value to change the category into which the blog is posted.

• Nov 15, 2005. Version 0.2

• Initial release version.

Requirements

Gregarius version 0.5.2 +

Notes

• Remember to read the README.txt file in the subdirectory blogthat_files/

Screenshots

Download

Dec 30, 2005. Download version 0.4.1
This version has the following changes

• Fixed xhtml validity bugs
• Included Martey Dodoo’s low contrast css changes

Older Versions

• Dec 30, 2005. Download version 0.4
  This version has the following changes
  • The items are now grouped by date.
  • More compitibilty with the svn version. Uses screenshots, overrides etc..
• Dec 22, 2005. Download version 0.3.2
  • Added Accesskeys for collapsing the sidebar (Alt-f) and for expanding/collapsing all the items(Alt-C)
  • Fix for a bug while expanding/collapsing all the divs in Firefox
• Nov 12, 2005. Download version 0.3.1
  • Fix for a bug that prompts you to download update.php after updating.
• Download version 0.3.
  • The sidemenu hidden state is stored in a cookie and saved across visits
  • Removed underscores from the feed titles
  • Made the icons line up – Thanks Chris
  • Bug fixes when using this theme with version 0.5.2 of Gregarius

Requirements

Gregarius version 0.5.2 +

Notes

• I do not use this theme myself, so updates will be slow.

If you are looking to move to/from Bloglines and you want more freedom and would like complete control over your feed reader, I recommend the excellent, open source program : Gregarius. It is highly extensible and supports plugins and themes and has lots of Ajax goodness. If you spend a lot of time reading feeds it is important to have a feed reader that does everything just the way you want it to.

Yahoo! mail is also getting a new Ajaxified look with drag & drop organization, keyboard shortcuts and other features. I am sure Gregarius can be themed to sport a really nice light Ajaxified interface. The key will be to piecemeal the data transferred between server and client.

To use the theme, download it and then unzip it into your theme directory in Gregarius. Then go your your Admin-> Config page and switch the theme to crystal.

Download

Sept 24, 2005. Download version 0.2.
This version includes modifications to make it work with the theme-caching system.

Older Versions

• Sept 9th 2005. Download version 0.1. – Initial Version

Requirements

Gregarius version 0.5.2

Screenshots

Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2

Notes

• This theme doesn’t look nice on Internet Exploiter.

Credits

Everaldo for the icons supplied in the KDE crystal theme.