Comments on: Safari RSS and PulpFiction http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 23 May 2012 23:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mike3k http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction#comment-10004 mike3k Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:54:26 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction/#comment-10004 It can only help other products by bringing RSS into the mainstream. A lot of people have never heard of RSS, but after they get a taste of it in Safari, they'll start looking for a more advanced reader. It can only help other products by bringing RSS into the mainstream. A lot of people have never heard of RSS, but after they get a taste of it in Safari, they'll start looking for a more advanced reader.

]]> By: Geoff Taylor http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction#comment-10003 Geoff Taylor Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:36:39 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction/#comment-10003 I wasn't alarmed by Safari RSS. Even if it becomes more than a 'lite' feature built into Safari later on, it will only be one way to view and keep up with information. There are so many different kinds of news aggregators available for Windows and Mac OS X and the majority of them have unique methods of presentation. Both PulpFiction and NetNewsWire are incredibly high quality aggregators and yet extremely different. No matter how each improve over time, it'll be the individual users that have to decide which methods they prefer. I really liked Feed Demon before I gave up Windows. I immediately enjoyed NetNewsWire when I first downloaded the demo on my new Mac. But upon trying PulpFiction, I was truly impressed. PulpFiction's design is what suits me and how I prefer to work the best-- it's just more in sync with how my brain works than any of the others. I don't have to dig or work to figure it out, everything just flows (I'm speaking of the design, the speed in 1.0 left much to desire). Dashboard is what shocked me. I wasn't alarmed by Safari RSS. Even if it becomes more than a 'lite' feature built into Safari later on, it will only be one way to view and keep up with information. There are so many different kinds of news aggregators available for Windows and Mac OS X and the majority of them have unique methods of presentation. Both PulpFiction and NetNewsWire are incredibly high quality aggregators and yet extremely different. No matter how each improve over time, it'll be the individual users that have to decide which methods they prefer. I really liked Feed Demon before I gave up Windows. I immediately enjoyed NetNewsWire when I first downloaded the demo on my new Mac. But upon trying PulpFiction, I was truly impressed. PulpFiction's design is what suits me and how I prefer to work the best-- it's just more in sync with how my brain works than any of the others. I don't have to dig or work to figure it out, everything just flows (I'm speaking of the design, the speed in 1.0 left much to desire).

Dashboard is what shocked me.

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction#comment-10002 Erik J. Barzeski Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:39:10 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction/#comment-10002 Yes, we'll be supporting Spotlight, but that's pretty far away. We'll be on PF 1.3 or 2.0 by then, I imagine! Yes, we'll be supporting Spotlight, but that's pretty far away. We'll be on PF 1.3 or 2.0 by then, I imagine!

]]> By: J. Scott Anderson http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction#comment-10001 J. Scott Anderson Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:31:20 +0000 http://nslog.com/2004/06/28/safari_rss_and_pulpfiction/#comment-10001 Great perspective and one that I agree with. Apple is raising the bar for the minimum expectations in many areas. At the same time, they usually provide the technology as a framework for use in development or make the application accessible via plug-ins so that developers can make value-added extensions that are worth paying for. Ideally, The RSS stuff will be a framework so that you can base future versions of RSS of that basic functionality and then add all the great stuff that makes PulpFiction stand out from the crowd. I look forward to seeing it. BTW one of those stand out features that would be great to see is integration with the new search capabilities that Apple is touting for Tiger. Great perspective and one that I agree with. Apple is raising the bar for the minimum expectations in many areas. At the same time, they usually provide the technology as a framework for use in development or make the application accessible via plug-ins so that developers can make value-added extensions that are worth paying for.

Ideally, The RSS stuff will be a framework so that you can base future versions of RSS of that basic functionality and then add all the great stuff that makes PulpFiction stand out from the crowd. I look forward to seeing it. BTW one of those stand out features that would be great to see is integration with the new search capabilities that Apple is touting for Tiger.

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