Feed Reading in Firefox 2
Feed Reading in Firefox 2
Submitted by Corey Goldberg on Fri, 01/12/2006 - 03:45.From Ben Goodger (Googler and Lead Firefox Dev) on
RSS in Firefox:
"... Firefox philosophy of having enough features, not too many or too few. In general, we felt that RSS reader was a very personal choice to be made by the user, and that we did not want to compete with existing RSS readers, which are very competent in a variety of ways. Rather, we wanted to allow users to easily subscribe to feeds using their favorite reader."
I love this feature.. it lets me quickly subscribe to feeds through Bloglines.
I think Firefox nailed this one. A feed reader belongs in a plugin if you choose to use your browser for such tasks. Keep the core simple and extensible.
"... Firefox philosophy of having enough features, not too many or too few. In general, we felt that RSS reader was a very personal choice to be made by the user, and that we did not want to compete with existing RSS readers, which are very competent in a variety of ways. Rather, we wanted to allow users to easily subscribe to feeds using their favorite reader."
I love this feature.. it lets me quickly subscribe to feeds through Bloglines.
I think Firefox nailed this one. A feed reader belongs in a plugin if you choose to use your browser for such tasks. Keep the core simple and extensible.