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But how much were these services really offering? It is one thing to attempt to charge for a superior service, but for the most basic of services? That's a whol

But how much were these services really offering? It is one thing to attempt to charge for a superior service, but for the most basic of services? That's a whole different story. IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests. But that's an aside.

julien 14y ago
Browsers have commercial interest =) There is room for both.
tmgrhm 14y ago
>IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests. This is a really interesting idea. Has there been any talk in Chrome development about building a browser-side RSS reader? Google would still get all the information they get from Reader now but they'd be making the 'feature' exclusive to their browser. This coming not long after Apple removed their feed managing ability in the web browser, meaning they could get a load of Chrome converts on OS X just from that. It'd be really interesting to see what happened if browser-side RSS became "the thing" again. Although, as julien pointed out, doing it browser-side doesn't necessarily mean your RSS isn't in the hands of a commercial interest.
- greyfade 14y ago
  It was tried, IIRC, early in Firefox's development. It ended up being scrapped for some reason, and it didn't really work all that well. Opera has a feed reader, too, but I never really found it to be as usable as Thunderbird or Akregator (neither of which I really like.)
  - zeckalpha 14y ago
    I don't think it was completely scrapped. I know some people who use live bookmarks.
mpyne 14y ago
Interestingly, this already work in IE, at least as far back as IE7 (which is how I monitor RSS feeds at work).
iki23 14y ago
won't scale for hundreds of feeds; I use thousands
jimmaswell 14y ago
How good is Firefox's rss handling?
- jimworm 14y ago
  Check out Brief for Firefox, I've not felt a need to consume RSS any other way. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
  - jimmaswell 14y ago
    I've been using that for a while now, it's pretty good. Seems to take up a lot of memory and cpu after a while, though.

julien 14y ago

Browsers have commercial interest =) There is room for both.

tmgrhm 14y ago

>IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests. This is a really interesting idea. Has there been any talk in Chrome development about building a browser-side RSS reader? Google would still get all the information they get from Reader now but they'd be making the 'feature' exclusive to their browser. This coming not long after Apple removed their feed managing ability in the web browser, meaning they could get a load of Chrome converts on OS X just from that. It'd be really interesting to see what happened if browser-side RSS became "the thing" again. Although, as julien pointed out, doing it browser-side doesn't necessarily mean your RSS isn't in the hands of a commercial interest.

greyfade 14y ago
It was tried, IIRC, early in Firefox's development. It ended up being scrapped for some reason, and it didn't really work all that well. Opera has a feed reader, too, but I never really found it to be as usable as Thunderbird or Akregator (neither of which I really like.)
- zeckalpha 14y ago
  I don't think it was completely scrapped. I know some people who use live bookmarks.

mpyne 14y ago

Interestingly, this already work in IE, at least as far back as IE7 (which is how I monitor RSS feeds at work).

iki23 14y ago

won't scale for hundreds of feeds; I use thousands

jimmaswell 14y ago

How good is Firefox's rss handling?

jimworm 14y ago
Check out Brief for Firefox, I've not felt a need to consume RSS any other way. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
- jimmaswell 14y ago
  I've been using that for a while now, it's pretty good. Seems to take up a lot of memory and cpu after a while, though.