Articles are a popular form of syndicated content. They are often offered out for manual syndication - the article is simply displayed with a notice stating that it can be reprinted once the required terms are met. There is another popular format though - automatically updating articles.This tutorial explains an easy method of offering an automatically updated html file to other sites. I have taken the example of an article but the same theory could be applied to other content such as tutorials, images or news.

Pausing RSS scroller is an innovative scroller that combines PHP and external JavaScript to let you show any RSS feed on your site- and beyond! By bypassing Ajax in favour of dynamically loaded JavaScript, the scroller can be included on any site, enabling you to syndicate your feed for other sites to display, just by allowing webmasters to cut and paste the frontend portion of this script. This differs from RSS Ticker script, which uses Ajax and PHP instead, making it suitable only for displaying on your own site (as Ajax by default limits the domain it can be invoked from out of security reasons). This script works by first relying on a simple PHP RSS parser called LastRSS to retrieve/cache an RSS feed. Then, it converts the result to a JavaScript array and loads it up dynamically and asynchronously (without interrupting the rest of the page) through an external JavaScript file. External JavaScript can be invoked on any site, enabling this script to be used just the same. And just because we're so thoughtful, the script does support the ability to limit its usage to specified domains of your choice.

One of the joys of the Web is that every browser out there does things in a slightly different way. If you thought HTML incompatibilities between browsers were bad, welcome to JavaScript. Half the browsers don't support half the functionality you want, and to make life still more interesting, early releases are typically crawling with bizarre and unpredictable bugs.This note does not pretend to be a definitive guide to writing compatible JavaScripts. It is simply a brief description of some of the more irritating bugs I've come across, and some possible workarounds and tips which may help your scripts to run on a wider range of browsers.