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Comment by pdw

8 days ago

It's disheartening that this Chrome dev in the comments shows himself to be completely unaware of the RSS ecosystem...

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bawolff  8 days ago

Quite frankly i think if browsers had better default display of RSS then it wouldnt really matter.

Avamander  8 days ago

I still can't see how browser support is useful for that.

Now to think of it, I'd like to see one useful example of its usage. Haven't seen one in a long long time.

  • JimDabell  8 days ago

    Take a look at this feed:

    https://interconnected.org/home/feed

    You’ll see if you view source that it’s an RSS (XML) file that your browser doesn’t know how to render. But at the top, there is this:

        <?xml-stylesheet href="/home/static/styles/pretty-feed-v3.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

    Your browser loads that XSLT and uses it to transcode the XML into HTML, which your browser can now render. The source is here:

    https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...

    • Avamander  8 days ago

      Thank you for that example, it does help understand how it could be useful.

      Though I'm still unsure if supporting that use-case indefinitely is worth the long-term effort. In the same way that FTP support was dropped.