Feature request - modules

[mtnwing]

Similiar to the weather module concept, it would be neat to have:

top news headlines,
sports scores
ebay price watcher module
local movie times / schedule


that could be integrated with the interface.

I know it's not so hard to pop out of sage and into window's to get this stuff, but it sure would be cool to have it integrated.

-mtnwing

[nielm]

For the news sites, an RSS/RDF/ATOM reader and display module would be possible...
Like with the weather module: the STV calls an external EXE with an argument to read the feed, which translates it into a more readable format and passes it back to the STV...

All 3 weather modules read and parse XML, it would be trivial to write an RSS parser based on these...

This would then work with any site that syndicates it's content through RSS (eg BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3223484.stm), Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/rss) etc)

(RSS info: http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html )
(ATOM info: http://www.atomenabled.org/ )