jonpurdy
Well-known member
So I've wanted to use my 9500 for web browsing but most of the solutions just don't work for me. Classic browsers (even iCab) don't render most sites correctly, and web rendering proxy has many issues (like form submission and only rendering part of the page).
But then I realized half of what I do on the web is reading news through Feedbin (the RSS service I use). This would be significantly easier to write a client for since it's got a great API and I wouldn't have to deal with any dynamic content, just the RSS entry content that's pretty basic.
I whipped up a quick proof-of-concept using Python and Flask and it can be run locally, on Docker/Vagrant, or in a VPS somewhere. It does all the work of grabbing feeds and entries from the Feedbin API and spits it out to a basic HTML format that any old Mac can read. You just navigate to the IP or domain that Feedbin-Classic is hosted on and you're good to go. I even implemented "Mark as Read" through old school HTML forms.
I'll probably publish this to Github soon, but is anyone else interested in this sort of thing? If so, any specific feature requests?
But then I realized half of what I do on the web is reading news through Feedbin (the RSS service I use). This would be significantly easier to write a client for since it's got a great API and I wouldn't have to deal with any dynamic content, just the RSS entry content that's pretty basic.
I whipped up a quick proof-of-concept using Python and Flask and it can be run locally, on Docker/Vagrant, or in a VPS somewhere. It does all the work of grabbing feeds and entries from the Feedbin API and spits it out to a basic HTML format that any old Mac can read. You just navigate to the IP or domain that Feedbin-Classic is hosted on and you're good to go. I even implemented "Mark as Read" through old school HTML forms.
I'll probably publish this to Github soon, but is anyone else interested in this sort of thing? If so, any specific feature requests?