Comments on: RSS Sucks

By: Erik Arvidsson

Erik Arvidsson — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:22:15 +0000

1. Go to wired.com
2. Click Discover Feeds in the Sage toolbar
3. Select the feed you want to subscribe to and click ‘Add Feed’

Alternative just add a new bookmark pointing to the feed.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:58:54 +0000

I’m trying to add Wired RSS to my list of feeds in the Sage extension in Firefox. How do I do it? 5 minutes, and I can’t add it to the list of feeds.

These guys suck at usability testing.

By: Minh Nguyễn

Minh Nguyễn — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

A name that people can guess its meaning from.

How about “Site updates’?

By: skotwheels

skotwheels — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

[from your chat log]

[21:21] EA: Personally I don’t think RSS is ready for the masses
[21:22] EA: and I don’t think the masses need RSS
[21:22] GB: But it can be, if we do in the right way.
[21:22] GB: why don’t the need?

I’m not a super nerd, but I probably couldnt live without RSS. Having to check the news/blogs/even my comic strips, would be too time consuming. I use NewsFire on my apple computer.

RSS def. needs to be made simple and easy to use “for the masses,” but it’s pretty simple as is.

By: Erik Arvidsson

Erik Arvidsson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

RSS is pretty easy but take a clean windows/mac/linux installation and someone who knows how to use a browser and get them to use RSS. Do you see the issue here? If they are lucky they might get a download dialog at best. I should have mentioned that using text/xml, text/plain or whatnot for RSS is evil. How is your system supposed to know that this is a feed? Stick to application/rss+xml and application/atom+xml.

By: Guilherme Blanco

Guilherme Blanco — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

My idea when I told you that was, not use a new content-type, and get the browser parse and display the content as Opera does.

I thought something to integrate an appz to the browsers (I mean, all of them), and let this application parse the content.
Ok, this can be consider as a spyware, but IMHO the idea is good. You enter in a RSS link, a popup window is shown to you, like the bookmark window; but it’s the Reader window. You select the category you want, name, etc.
Now, you can simply load the reader and read the news in your “RSS Bookmarks”.
It’s the simplier way I could thought. If you “do not accept to bookmark the RSS” in the RSS Bookmark add window, the RSS is shown to you like in Opera.

Doing in this way, you can turn the content of RSS (the XML tags and hierarchy) almost invisible to the not-tech people.

By: Erik Arvidsson

Erik Arvidsson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I think displaying using XSLT is probably one of the better ways to get RSS to display in IE and Mozilla but then again I think serving RSS/Atom as text/xml or application/xml as bad. If a user has an application installed that handles the correct mime types then this will break a working configuration… damn this is messy.