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Chrome's New RSS Feature Rolling Out to Android Users Now
- smusamashah 5y agoWhen chrome came, all other major browsers supported RSS natively. Opera, Firefox, even internet explorer let you view RSS in a readable format back then. Chrome only opened rss as XML. But they had Google Reader to make up for it, and then they took it down. I blame Google/Chrome for downfall of RSS/Feeds in general. Chrome left all other web browsers behind but never add native RSS reading support. And slowly websites started dropping feeds. Now they are back at it again with the the trendy word "Follow" which isn't exactly feeds are. Chrome should have native RSS/Atom feeds support. It might revive feeds. I just don't like the whole process and the way they are coming back to it.
- derekzhouzhen 5y agoI'd rather that major browsers don't have native RSS support. There is a industry standard way to transform XML (RSS is a xml file) into readable HTML; the XSLT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT And it is already supported by all major browsers. With XSLT, you can add one tag in your RSS to transform it into a readable web page, with a customizable call-to-action for getting real RSS supports. See one of my feeds: https://roastidio.us/feed/KjQKkQVg https://roastidio.us/feed/KjQKkQVg If your feed behaves differently while clicked in different browsers, it will be more confusing, not less confusing to people unfamiliar with RSS