Comments on: Hyatt Ponders RSSafari http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: James http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-288 James Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:48:57 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-288 a URL scheme is good, I like those. I hate when the URL scheme takes the form of a protocol scheme, like Apple did with iCal, webcal:// and remotely mounting a disk image, disk://. My "browser" would understand the URL scheme rss: and do "smart" finding of the RSS feed by checking first to see if it is an rss file then checking the META tag in the file if option one fails, then falling back to common urls like /index.rdf and /index.xml. a URL scheme is good, I like those. I hate when the URL scheme takes the form of a protocol scheme, like Apple did with iCal, webcal:// and remotely mounting a disk image, disk://.

My "browser" would understand the URL scheme rss: and do "smart" finding of the RSS feed by checking first to see if it is an rss file then checking the META tag in the file if option one fails, then falling back to common urls like /index.rdf and /index.xml.

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-287 Erik J. Barzeski Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:01:33 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-287 I'm using the term "protocol" loosely here. rss: could be the same protocol underneath as HTTP (which it currently uses), but browsers could be built to understand that links with "rss://" should be passed to an RSS aggregator. That's all I meant. I should have written that more clearly. I'm using the term "protocol" loosely here. rss: could be the same protocol underneath as HTTP (which it currently uses), but browsers could be built to understand that links with "rss://" should be passed to an RSS aggregator. That's all I meant. I should have written that more clearly.

]]> By: Christian http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-286 Christian Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:56:33 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-286 I would have thougth this would be best handled by Sherlock, both editing and updating I would have thougth this would be best handled by Sherlock, both editing and updating

]]> By: Shawn http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-285 Shawn Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:14:18 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-285 oh dear lord. the thought of nnw *fully* embeded in safari (or any browser) makes me sick. oh dear lord. the thought of nnw *fully* embeded in safari (or any browser) makes me sick.

]]> By: Kevin A. Burton http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-284 Kevin A. Burton Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:54:56 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-284 It isn't a protocol but a URL scheme and you are not the first person who thought of it :-) From NSLog [1] My own personal take: rss:// should be a protocol. NNW should grab an RSS link and add the subscription. Simple as that. It happens when I click an rtsp: (QuickTime) link. It happens when I click an aim: (AIM) link. It certainly happens when I click mailto: ftp: http: https: and others. It used to happen when I clicked gopher: links too :-). In an older NewsMonster attempt at an aggregator in 100% JavaScript under Mozilla (it was called Bonita) I wrote a view-rss: protocol adapter for Mozilla. It did exactly this. You put a URL such as view-rss:<a href="http://www.peerfear.org/rss/">http://www.peerfear.org/rss/</a> And then you could view it, subscribe to it, etc. It could also handle the application/rss+xml media type correctly. Expect this code to be merged into a future version of NewsMonster. It isn't a protocol but a URL scheme and you are not the first person who thought of it :-)

From NSLog [1]

My own personal take: rss:// should be a protocol. NNW should grab an RSS link and add the subscription. Simple as that. It happens when I click an rtsp: (QuickTime) link. It happens when I click an aim: (AIM) link. It certainly happens when I click mailto: ftp: http: https: and others. It used to happen when I clicked gopher: links too :-).

In an older NewsMonster attempt at an aggregator in 100% JavaScript under

Mozilla (it was called Bonita) I wrote a view-rss: protocol adapter for Mozilla.

It did exactly this. You put a URL such as

view-rss:http://www.peerfear.org/rss/

And then you could view it, subscribe to it, etc.

It could also handle the application/rss+xml media type correctly.

Expect this code to be merged into a future version of NewsMonster.

]]> By: nate http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-283 nate Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:46:42 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-283 I have to agree with James. RSS is just a file with yet another content-type, just like a PDF or an MPG or an MP3 -- doesn't need its own protocol, since it comes over http. I have to agree with James. RSS is just a file with yet another content-type, just like a PDF or an MPG or an MP3 -- doesn't need its own protocol, since it comes over http.

]]> By: James http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari#comment-282 James Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:03:13 +0000 http://nslog.com/2003/01/26/hyatt_ponders_rssafari/#comment-282 Why should RSS get its own protocol, unless you want to write a new protocol to handle transfering of RSS HTTP works perfectly fine. Why should RSS get its own protocol, unless you want to write a new protocol to handle transfering of RSS HTTP works perfectly fine.

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