JavaScript Syndication: How to Easily Syndicate Your Web Content

Learn the pros and cons of syndication with javascript in JavaScript Syndication: How to Easily Syndicate Your Web Content over at BarelyFitz Designs.



If you are syndicating to websites that are not under your control, you don't know that the webmaster will have the expertise to implement a syndication strategy using XML. You might be syndicating to a small company that used FrontPage to make the website; they certainly can't set up a dynamic process to fetch an XML feed from your site, cache it, and integrate the data into their site.



Using JavaScript has benefits for the target website, in that the implementation is simple ... just add one line of HTML to the target page. The only caveat is that the browser supports or has javascript enabled. When you update the content, changes are immediately reflected on the syndicated sites. Cached solutions such as RSS there is typically a self-imposed delay of up to an hour.



The article will walk you down step by step through all of the ins and outs, and follow up with some commonplace examples of how you can implement syndication thru javascript.