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With Firefox and Safari both supporting RSS, why do I need a separate app? Can anyone explain this to me 'cause it seems redundant.Would you say that it is like using TextMate over TextEdit?
The two most obvious reasons, I think, are:1. Safari can only keep RSS feeds as separate bookmarks. It becomes clumsy to view them quickly if you have more than a few to read. RSS readers put them all together and allow you to quickly switch between stories and sources.2. RSS readers generally have a more usable interface. In Safari, you can click on an article, and it will take you to the site. In an RSS reader, you could have the site side-by-side with the article. In general, it is more usable that just a linear list.What I do is keep just Digg feeds in my Safari bookmark bar, since they're updated so often with interesting things. Other RSS feeds go in my RSS reader (NNW on Mac, Google Reader online).
Would I ask Vienna developer to code a huge module for Salling Clicker to make the unread items appear on phone via bluetooth menu? Should I? I should not.This thing integrates to Salling Clicker for me and magically I have 100s of news to peek without leaving my room, so this is good news for me. I don't think anyone says "give up Vienna".
You think that is a windows using troll. You are wrong. That attitude comes from Linux land and that is the reason they have NO commercial quality products since for most of developers who even tried to ship Linux quality commercial product learned hard way nobody using Linux pays for software. They also label paying people as some "stupids" or "fanboys".That is the loud mouth majority I am speaking about of course. Unfortunately that majority controls Linuxland.If they spared to read GNU's pages , they could figure one can charge and also pay even completely open source software. It doesn't make them "Stupid".
You should ask him, who needs that kind of freeloaders in OS X scene. Users? Apple? Developers?Should be glad that kind of people are not on OS X scene.
davidwasmanJan 10, 2008
With Firefox and Safari both supporting RSS, why do I need a separate app? Can anyone explain this to me 'cause it seems redundant.Would you say that it is like using TextMate over TextEdit?
chrislee149Jan 10, 2008
The two most obvious reasons, I think, are:1. Safari can only keep RSS feeds as separate bookmarks. It becomes clumsy to view them quickly if you have more than a few to read. RSS readers put them all together and allow you to quickly switch between stories and sources.2. RSS readers generally have a more usable interface. In Safari, you can click on an article, and it will take you to the site. In an RSS reader, you could have the site side-by-side with the article. In general, it is more usable that just a linear list.What I do is keep just Digg feeds in my Safari bookmark bar, since they're updated so often with interesting things. Other RSS feeds go in my RSS reader (NNW on Mac, Google Reader online).
klaupaciusJan 11, 2008
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ilgazJan 11, 2008
Would I ask Vienna developer to code a huge module for Salling Clicker to make the unread items appear on phone via bluetooth menu? Should I? I should not.This thing integrates to Salling Clicker for me and magically I have 100s of news to peek without leaving my room, so this is good news for me. I don't think anyone says "give up Vienna".
ilgazJan 11, 2008
You think that is a windows using troll. You are wrong. That attitude comes from Linux land and that is the reason they have NO commercial quality products since for most of developers who even tried to ship Linux quality commercial product learned hard way nobody using Linux pays for software. They also label paying people as some "stupids" or "fanboys".That is the loud mouth majority I am speaking about of course. Unfortunately that majority controls Linuxland.If they spared to read GNU's pages , they could figure one can charge and also pay even completely open source software. It doesn't make them "Stupid".
ilgazJan 11, 2008
You should ask him, who needs that kind of freeloaders in OS X scene. Users? Apple? Developers?Should be glad that kind of people are not on OS X scene.