RSS with Style

Saturday, February 21st, 2004 at 7:18 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 1 comment

I just started noticing that the feeds are showing up in NewsGator with style included. Fetchlinks, a plug-in is what did it. I’m glad I had the chance to experience this so I could see for myself how well having RSS style works.

Every feed looking the same has been one of the complaints about RSS. Now that I’ve experienced it. Here are my thoughts:

It slows scanning.

When an entry appears, so does the whole Web site look. RSS programs are similar to email programs and have three frames or so. The frame where the content appears is now dominated “above the fold” with the header of the Web site. So, I have to scroll down to read the entry.

It takes longer for an entry to load with style than plain ol’ text.

Some entries don’t have a link to the article on the Web site. What if I want to share it with others? I had to work harder to find the link. Yes, I can email with NewsGator, but I didn’t want to do it that way in this case.

Sounds like it is time for aggregators to provide a text only vs. HTML option.

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1 comment

  • Posted by Lockergnome's RSS Resource on February 23rd, 2004, 8:45 AM

    RSS with Style Not Stylin’

    From meryl’s notes: “I just started noticing that the feeds are showing up in NewsGator with style included. Fetchlinks, a plug-in is what did it. I’m glad I had the chance to experience this so I could see for myself how well having RSS style works. E…

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