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> 1. Open PRs for browsers with provided-by-us code to integrate RSS again [..] You need to get the big names on board, namely Chrome/Chromium, Firefox and Edg
by bArray 5y ago
> 1. Open PRs for browsers with provided-by-us code to integrate RSS again [..]
You need to get the big names on board, namely Chrome/Chromium, Firefox and Edge. Google and Microsoft seem quite happy with not supporting RSS, they don't want you to bypass their services.
I think simple RSS feed readers are still the way forwards. The browser should not pretend to be an RSS feed aggregator and the RSS feed reader should not pretend to be a browser.
> 4. Implement easy to use libraries for programming languages that might miss them.
I think that it would be great to advocate for the largest website frameworks to have these on by default. For example, WordPress. The biggest boundary are these websites that serve text/images but do _everything_ in JS.
> 5. Create a website that explains why this is important, that hosts or links to the specifications and that contains additional documentation.
I think that a feed validator is good [1], standardized icons (along with style guides) [2], a service to convert existing pages into feeds, guides on what content and how much content to insert, etc.
I believe that it would be good to start having discussions about how to decentralize RSS too, with signed feeds allowing third-party propagation without fear of tampering. (Note that in keeping with RSS, this would be simple and optional.)
Another thing I have wondered about how to address is the processing of comments/feedback, bypassing the requirement of a browser entirely. It's still not clear to me how to do this simply, securely and effectively, in my mind this is still an open question.
> If this is of interest to you, consider joining https://gitter.im/FosterRSS/community https://gitter.im/FosterRSS/community.
Requiring some kind of sign-up in order to interact with content (in this case messaging) seems kind of anti-RSS. I would personally suggest something like IRC or XMP.
[1] https://validator.w3.org/feed/ https://validator.w3.org/feed/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS