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> The problem with feeds is that they render in the browser like a bunch of code This wasn't always the case.
by chupchap 4y ago
> The problem with feeds is that they render in the browser like a bunch of code
This wasn't always the case.
- bariumbitmap 4y agoYup. Firefox had RSS support from first release in 2002 (inherited from Netscape, so even older than that) until 2018 when Mozilla decided it wasn't a priority. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202028 https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-product-support-for-rss-atom-feeds/ https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod... I don't think Chrome ever supported RSS, though.
- giantrobot 4y agoEven when browsers don't explicitly support RSS feeds they can be transformed with XSL. A dedicated feed reader will ignore the XSL reference but the browser will do the transform and give you HTML which can itself reference CSS for nice styling.