The RSS Applet's model is pretty straightforward:
it consists of the underlying canvas box, with its border appearing in the
specified width and denoted background color. The box foreground color fills
the space between the items as defined in the item margin property. The box will be
filled with one title element representing the RSS channel, and a number of item elements
describing RSS news items. Both the title and
the news items have distinct font and alignment attributes, as well as foreground and background colors
for their normal and activated states.
Two examples illustrate the new parameterization:
The out-of-the-box look, "Pretty in Purple":
Blending with the WebReference home page color scheme:
The RSSChannel and RSSHandler classes have not changed, only one
class was refined to handle parameters and improve rendering: RSSViewerApplet