Ah, I forgot to mention this, but thanks to the hard work of
Yahoo's
excellent YUI team, we've got this problem licked, and
should be
rolling out other fancy improvements as time goes on.
--- In yws-events@yahoogroups.com, pieman <pieman ...>
wrote:
>
> thats loads better - cheers!
>
> ps
> I spotted a slight layout issue...
> in the upcoming home page I have only 2 items in my
"My Upcoming
> Events" list
> if I click on the (attractive new) Subscribe widget for
that list it
> reveals the subscription options, but they slide
underneath the
> Subscribe button for the 'My Friends' Events' list
below.
>
>
>
> > In case you guys didn't check Upcoming in the
past few days, orange
> > "Subscribe" buttons have been live.
Try them out and let us know if
> > you like them!
> >
> > From: yws-events@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-
> > events@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Luk
> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:30 AM
> > To: yws-events@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [yws-events] Re: RSS & iCal feeds
> >
> > Well put. I think that we should probably include
the Subscribe
> > link on your own page. Also, I'm sure Andy will
have something to
> > say about the Orange vs. Blue argument…
> >
> >
> >
> > From: yws-events@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yws-
> > events@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of pieman
> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:13 AM
> > To: yws-events@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [yws-events] Re: RSS & iCal feeds
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, I'd agree with that. While not cluttering
the page is obviously
> > important, the FAQ says "Anywhere you see
the "Subscribe" link with a
> > blue button next to it" but I struggled to
find these Subscribe
> > options anywhere until I got some help from this
list. Autodiscovery
> > would be useful for RSS, but also I think the
Subscribe widgets
> > should be easier to find - on each User's pages
rather than just on
> > the login page for instance. And I was only trying
to find my own
> > feed, not anyone else's.
> >
> > I should point out (incase you hadn't noticed)
that while so while
> > I'm probably more techy than the average bear, I
haven't used
> > Upcoming for a while, so you can probably count me
as a relatively
> > typical user. Maybe 
> >
> >
> > > On 2006-04-21 10.48.55 -0700, Gordon Luk
wrote:
> > >> We currently also use a
> > >> non-standard, DHTML widget to provide up
to four/five syndication
> > >> options
> > >> (five if you count iCal download) in
small, tight spaces. I agree
> > >> that it's
> > >> not standard, but we'll be adding more
and more to those widgets,
> > >> and it's
> > >> better to keep that from cluttering your
normal site experience.
> > >
> > > Maybe instead of a blue icon next to it you
can use an orange icon?
> > > Or give
> > > 'Subscribe...' an orange background?
Something to help out the
> > > person who's
> > > quickly looking for the RSS.
> > >
> > > Putting a <link
rel="alternate" ..." /> in the
<head> would also
> > > help a lot.
> > > Firefox seems to recognize these, plus it's
the first place I look
> > > when I'm
> > > trying to find the feed URL (I doubt I'm the
typical user, of
> > course).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Burns mike... http://mike-burns.com
> > >
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