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omg rss is still around
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Browsers have severely regressed in their RSS support. It used to be Firefox would preview RSS and display an easy single-click option to subscribe with your favorite reader, with suggested readers for people who don't have one yet.
I guess websites developers have to make up for this, develop a dialog with shortcuts to subsribe with a handful of popular readers, and a shortcut to copy the link. There may already be JS libraries for this.
Ah yeah, that's unfortunate. I actually don't remember that it had a UI for RSS, just the Live Bookmarks, so I was recently thinking they could at least detect that it's an RSS XML and then show a message that the user has to put the link into their feed reader.
But yeah, even that's easier said than done, since you also have to support Atom and JSON Feed and whatever other formats there might be, and the message has to be translated into a gazillion languages, too...