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This is fine IMO. Thunderbird has better RSS support.

• Symbiote 8y ago
  Indeed, but the preview functionality was very useful for deciding whether to add a particular feed. Couldn't an XSLT + XSL stylesheet achive most of what the preview function would continue to be useful for?
  • blablabla123 8y ago
    True ;) https://github.com/concerto/concerto-simple-rss/wiki/Transforming-RSS-with-XSLT https://github.com/concerto/concerto-simple-rss/wiki/Transfo... Probably it suffices to use regular CSS after having it converted to XHTML...
  • cubano 8y ago
    You lost me at "...XSLT + XSL stylesheet..." I've had at least 2 experiences with that particular tech, and I found it horribly over-engineered and a total PITA to work with. On top of that, I still can't figure out exactly what problem its trying to solve, unless it purpose is job security to overpaid corporate contractors. We have HTML5 and CSS for rendering and JSON for content, and we should just leave everything else be.
    • aikah 8y ago
      > I've had at least 2 experiences with that particular tech, and I found it horribly over-engineered and a total PITA to work with. It's because XSL is (recursive) functional programming, and most developers fight that fact trying to write imperative XSL. > We have HTML5 and CSS for rendering and JSON for content, and we should just leave everything else be. Except you're not going to anything with JSON without writing Javascript code, since neither HTML or CSS do understand JSON. XSL works without a single line of Javasript and it is still supported by most browsers.
• newscracker 8y ago
  Let’s hope Thunderbird doesn’t lose feed reading/subscriptions soon. It does use large parts of Firefox code, and is already having issues in the post XUL world of Firefox.
• blablabla123 8y ago
  On macOS the font in the overview list is very small, at least on my laptop. As soon as I spot a better tool, I switch.