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While there is room for improvement in terms of configuration options, the developer promptly answered my question on his multilingual forum, telling me how to edit javascript to do exactly what I needed.

This is a useful component that is easy to use and works fine with most feeds. I have had trouble registering on the forum for support but it might be my lack of italian language skills. I have one problem now where special characters that are in the feed using & # 8 2 1 6 ; notation (without the spaces) are not translated to the appropriate characters (in this case a single left quote). The Joomla news feed components display them correctly. This won't spoil this component for you if your feeds do not contain characters like that so give it a try.


Two hints:
To add the Module Class Suffix field to this component for the ability to style it, add this line to the module XML file.



Also, I had trouble getting internal RSS feeds created from the Joomla site to display, so I added them to feedburner then added the feedburner links to News Feeds. It worked fine.

I'm pleased that someone has brought easy plug and play Sifr3 support to Joomla! I was so tired of explaining to my boss that the fonts he wants won't display that way in other browsers. Now we can have a dynamic site without creating all thos static images, and have better control how it appears to others. This is definitely near the top of my must have extension list.

Note that I had some trouble getting this to work right with my template in Internet Explorer without adjustment to my css, slightly above my capability. These problems are inherent to Sifr3 and not the fault of this extension.

My only complaint is that because for some reason not many people are using Sifr extensions like this one, the forum at freakedout.de isn't really loaded with information from folks who have already experienced and resolved problems like my own.

Like another reviewer I purchased a month of Joomla (not just SIFR) support from freakedout.de and my remaining sifr problems were sorted out in minutes; after which Pete asked what more he could do for me. He then proceeded to help me really clean up my custom template; together we achieved more in one day than I've done in weeks of head scratching and googling.