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A front page of different news sources is in effect a headline ticker. And you still have the links to the articles which give you detailed information via Open
by ttepasse 8y ago
A front page of different news sources is in effect a headline ticker. And you still have the links to the articles which give you detailed information via Open Graph / Schema.org / h-entry markup.
As a heavy user of feeds I always wanted a feedreader in my browser, but more with the list in the sidebar and a content main, like in a traditional feedreader. Firefox' Live Bookmarks did that for a while, but of course Mozilla killed it. Safari's Twitter integration hat the same model for a while. Also Opera. But UI-wise all solutions weren't as great; hindered by integration into bookmarks of general non-nativeness.
Like the current top comment I find it frustrating that browser makers stopped caring for the power user demographic and effectively stopped competing with UI features. My ideal browser would be a mixture of the feedreading capabilities of NetNewsWire 3.2 (Subscribe to a shell script!), the storage modell of Evernote and such, the tab management of TreeStyleTabs but with the taste and elegance of OmniWeb 5, the native integration and resourcefulness of Safari and the configurability of old Opera.
- ianbicking 8y agoTo be clear, I'm not disagreeing – it's just from a technical point of view RSS is limited. The next step I'd want to take is to use that list of updated URLs to fetch content, get Open Graph metadata, maybe try text summarization, etc. Traditional RSS readers were basically ways to browse the content of a bunch of RSS feeds, and we need a little more these days to build a good product.