RSS

Posted Aug 27, 2025 20:03 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: RSS by jzb
Parent article: The tangled web of XSLT browser support

That's exactly what I'm suggesting that modern browsers should build in: recognize the RSS format and print a helpful message at the top, rather than just rendering it raw.

RSS

Posted Aug 27, 2025 20:18 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (1 responses)

That would be great - but they've all explicitly moved away from supporting RSS, so I'm not holding my breath that they'd re-implement any RSS support to phase out XSLT. Perhaps I'm being too pessimistic, though... It's never happened before, but maybe this time...

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Posted Aug 28, 2025 15:44 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I'd be happier if they moved to not trying to render RSS content either specially or as arbitrary XML, and defaulted to something that states that it's RSS and gives the URL in a way that's easy to copy into a program that does handle RSS. I always found it annoying that some sites had a link to a page that had the URL for the feed in it that I could look at and copy, and some had a link to the feed, and if I clicked on the link to the feed, the browser would act as a poor RSS reader that doesn't have my history and isn't integrated with my other feeds and also doesn't make the URL to copy easy to get.