Alex RussellConvinced more than ever that browsers should have auto-detected RSS feeds linked from pages and revealed "subscribe" buttons if the user configures a default RSS reader. Simple protocol, good UX opportunity for everyone, and would heal a lot of URL guessing.
Dave Murdock@slightlyoff over 13 years ago, Safari had this & removed with the 6.0 release https://www.cultofmac.com/news/restore-the-rss-button-to-safari-with-this-simple-extension
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I've had this extension enabled for as long as Chrome has had extensions https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rss-subscription-extensio/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd
Josh Wood@slightlyoff Firefox used to do this.
filipa mv@too_little_caffeine @slightlyoff rss didn’t die it was killed
Jon Lunman@too_little_caffeine @slightlyoff Pretty sure even Internet Explorer had this at one point, circa IE5/6 maybe?
Edit: Apparently this was still a feature as far as IE 11.
John Gruber@slightlyoff Safari had this for a few years and it worked great.
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Garrett Wollman@slightlyoff Opera had this, there was an RSS icon in the location bar for any page with feed metadata, and clicking on it added that feed to the built-in feed reader (which was just another mode of the built-in mail client).
@wollman Yes! I have a vague memory of that. ISTM that a good answer would be even more open; I.e., if you set a different feed reader as your browser or OS default, it would send subs to that instead.
@slightlyoff There would have to be a general mechanism for that, and in 2005 there wasn't. (I don't know if one has come into existence since then.)
Aslak Raanes@wollman You must be joking?
There was a general mechanism for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_URI_scheme?wprov=sfti1# and it worked pretty well on some platforms that had something based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Config?wprov=sfti1#
Tim Tepaße@slightlyoff @wollman You could do that back then in Safari, see the attached screenshot. And the idea for web-based feedreaders could have been navigator.registerProtocolHandler(), but afair no browser ever supported that for feed:// urls.
The modern equivalent are of course browser extensions – the latter implement the simple autodetection algorithm and send the feed url to native app with a custom uri protocol or to a web-based adress.
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nickchomey@nikolasdi I just checked out Vivaldi for the first time based on this comment. It looks *fantastic*...
I'm going to give it a test-drive and probably end up switching over from Edge
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@nickchomey @nikolasdi shame it’s another chrome.
@pointlessone @nickchomey I agree. I left Firefox after the recent privacy policy incident.
In what way is it a shame? As far as I can tell, chromium is the most full-featured, test-passing browser of the 3
@nickchomey It is, but if we're not careful it can become the only. Don’t we have enough examples of “why monopoly is bad” yet?
What do you propose as a solution? Safari (execs) are anti-web, Firefox's management is in absolute shambles...
@nickchomey I personally am sticking with Firefox. The tech is solid. Firefox is adding vertical tabs and tab groups, keeps v2 manifest for better ad-blockers, all welcome features. All the side projects of the corpo have no bearing on me. If I’m a small blip on their usage stats and blips on analytics all over the place I’m content. This is my tiny contribution to keeping web diverse and it takes no effort on my part.
Fair enough. I'm more concerned about them removing their clause about never selling your data... Edge was surely already more invasive, but at least they didn't do thr equivalent Of removing Don't be Evil.
Vivaldi seems to be a nice balance of privacy, features etc. Looking forward to exploring it more. A bonus is that it imported all my edge tabs, history etc in like 2 seconds, and should support all the same extensions (some of which I might not need now)
@nickchomey In my mind it’s a theoretical threat. They don’t have much of my data right now to sell. But even if they had it wouldn’t be much different than is already sold by others. I’m being tracked around the web regardless which browser I use and there’s little I can do to remedy that. Vivaldi (and everyone else) probably collect some amount of telemetry, too. Do they sell it? Do they promise to never share it with hundreds of valued partners?
Mozilla explained that their wording was to comply with some weird local law in their justification. I don’t think it was more nefarious than that. This is not a legal advice, just how I see it. You can find all sorts of evil sounding stuff in EULAs and TOS of other stuff you use. You still use it.
@nickchomey @pointlessone Because I would like some comercial alternatives based on Firefox. Monopoly is not good in the long run.
@nickchomey I heard Edge is good too. I switched to Vivaldi from Zen a few months ago. It gets better over time, as I find out more and more what it can do.
@nikolasdi I've been a very happy user of edge since basically the day it became chromium. The main reason, though, was really just vertical tabs and sync with android. I like the tracker blocker etc too.
I see Vivaldi has those and much more - rss reader, native adblock, surely vastly less telemetry/user profiling, and not pushing copilot down your throat every chance they get.
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Prem Kumar Aparanji 👶🤖🐘@twifkak why do I suddenly feel old for remembering all of these as if they happened just last year? 🥺
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骑客领先👉🏼@slightlyoff It must have some extensions do it this way.
Dan Wing@slightlyoff yes, it should be integrated into browsers. RSS is the ultimate “browse”!
FWIW, https://netnewswire.com has a plugin (sorry, extension) that detects RSS and gives exactly that one-click experience (two if you count the confirmation dialog).
Francis Beaudet@slightlyoff Vivaldi still has that feature and a decent RSS reader.
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉@slightlyoff why did all the browsers decide to remove it? Was there something in the water they were drinking?
https://openrss.org/blog/browsers-should-bring-back-the-rss-button
Zeh Fernando@Migueldeicaza @slightlyoff Another effect of the Anti-Power User Act of 2010.
(I kid, but that's what it feels like)
Arthur Vuillard@slightlyoff once upon a time, that existed
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