I'm still not quite sure why Microsummaries are useful...seems like USS (Über Simple Syndication - my term) to me. I've been meaning to add this to my blog since I heard about it a few months ago, but then MikeG added microsummaries to his site and I figured if a Luddite like Mike would support this emerging format, then I would too. :)
Basically this is how it works:
This is easy to do to any ASP.NET site. Add an very basic HttpHandler with code like this:
using System;
using System.Web;
namespace Foo.Web.Services
{
public class MicrosummaryHandler : IHttpHandler
public MicrosummaryHandler() {}
public bool IsReusable{get{return true;}}
public void ProcessRequest( HttpContext context )
context.Response.Write("Yay Microsummaries...get your summaries here. Get them anywhere.");
}
And add it to your web.config, of course:
<httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="microsummary.ashx" type="Foo.Web.Services.MicrosummaryHandler, Foo.Web.Services" /></httpHandlers>
You can also use Microsummary Generators that are basically formalized screenscraping of existing (x)HTML. You make an XSLT that yanks what you want and turns that into plain text suitable for a toolbar button.
Direct (free) support for this has been checked into DasBlog and will be in the daily builds if we ever get this g*dforsaken thing to ship. :)
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