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rgtichy
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12/21/11 08:31 AM (14 years ago)

Can the RSS link go to a custom HTML page?

Is there a way to reference a local (embedded) html page so that when a user clicks thru an RSS feed the opening page is from the app? What I am trying to do: I am aggregating RSS feeds that represent calendars. When a user clicks thru the rss item, they currently go to the publisher's event page. I'd like to have additional content on that page like an insert this in my Google calendar button on that page, so I am thinking I should load the event page inside my own page with those buttons already on it. Comments? An alternative would be to put my page on the internet also, but then the app would need more internet access and I thought it might be better to try to keep more activity inside the app.
 
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12/21/11 01:09 PM (14 years ago)
I am trying to grasp this, are you trying to evoke a response from the application to load a new screen by a user response on a local html page? (like clicking a link in the local html page would evoke a screen in the app)?
 
rgtichy
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12/21/11 02:01 PM (14 years ago)
yeah, I think so. I just know that if you click on an RSS item, it follows thru to a link, which is an HTML page that gets displayed. I want to know if there's a clean way to display that link inside a page where I have already added a button that says Add this to my calendar. I'm pretty sure after thinking more about it, that this is best done on a web server (mine) where I pass the link as a parm along with the known date/time/place info and then display the end link on my page, with the button(s) on it. I think if there were 2 buttons, one that provided an iCal file and one that added the calendar to a google calendar, that the iCal file would get imported on the device by the calendar app on the phone/tablet, right? And the Google calendar button would work on/over the internet to add an event into a user's web-based google calendar.
 

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