How Should We Make Our Content Embeddable?

Javascript, Iframes, Something Else?

[davidecd]

We want to allow bloggers, content sites etc. to embed content from our site on their sites. While we can give them a snippet of HTML to let them embed a static version of our content, we'd like them to be able to embed a live version of the content as it changes frequently.

What's the best way to do this so that it will be supported by the majority of blogging platforms/content sites?

1. Javascript
2. Iframes
3. Something else?

One issue we discovered with options 1 & 2 is that popular blogging platforms like LiveJournal and Wordpress don't allow JS or iframes.

Any advice?

[ZydoSEO]

Have you looked into RSS as a means of distributing your content?

[davidecd]

To view RSS on, say, a blog, you need a widget. We're looking for a copy-and-paste solution, which leads us back to straight HTML, javascript - unless we're missing something.

[bill]

To view RSS on, say, a blog, you need a widget.

Not necessarily. There are plenty of ways to do this with JavaScript, and there are many tools out there you can use to accomplish this. RSS does exactly what you asked for.

[davidecd]

Yeah, RSS is a good fit on that level. Except your suggestion leads us back to JS and script tags are stripped out automatically at various blogging platforms.

[bill]

...well then there's Java, Flash, Silverlight, etc.