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It's disheartening that this Chrome dev in the comments shows himself to be completely unaware of the RSS ecosystem...
by pdw 1y ago
It's disheartening that this Chrome dev in the comments shows himself to be completely unaware of the RSS ecosystem...
- Avamander 1y agoI still can't see how browser support is useful for that. Now to think of it, I'd like to see one useful example of its usage. Haven't seen one in a long long time.
- JimDabell 1y agoTake a look at this feed: https://interconnected.org/home/feed https://interconnected.org/home/feed You’ll see if you view source that it’s an RSS (XML) file that your browser doesn’t know how to render. But at the top, there is this: <?xml-stylesheet href="/home/static/styles/pretty-feed-v3.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> Your browser loads that XSLT and uses it to transcode the XML into HTML, which your browser can now render. The source is here: https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-feed-v3.xsl https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...
- Avamander 1y agoThank you for that example, it does help understand how it could be useful. Though I'm still unsure if supporting that use-case indefinitely is worth the long-term effort. In the same way that FTP support was dropped.
- bawolff 1y agoQuite frankly i think if browsers had better default display of RSS then it wouldnt really matter.