Comments on: Safari 1.3 and feed URIs

By: Denis Defreyne

Denis Defreyne — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Yeah. I noticed that too. It's a real shame.

I hope that I'll still be able to point feed:// URLs to NetNewsWire in 10.4.

Also notice how it says "feed:http://...". Kinda strange.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I’d hope so to!

(”feed:http://…” was actually intended, I think it’s allowed in the draft of the spec. That way you can have “feed:https://…” too without registering another protocol handler.)

By: Serdar Kilic

Serdar Kilic — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I can’t help but wonder whether or not Apple is going to reserve the feed scheme for their own browser (in 10.4).

By: Ward Mundy

Ward Mundy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

This is the kind of stunt that gets companies sued all the time. Just goes to show that Apple is equally creepy with Microsoft when it comes to these kinds of stunts. Do they really think this gets them more happy customers? You just wonder whose head was up where when they cooked this up. Unbelievavle!

By: Chris Good

Chris Good — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Well is it any surprise? Safari in Tiger uses it's own RSS reader so they don't want you to use external ones. I can't see why they've put it in 10.3.9 update though as it's nothing to do with Tiger.

Chris

By: Johnny G

Johnny G — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

That’s because the new safari’s webcore is the same as the one about to come out in 10.4. This was an oversight, a mistake, and it will be fixed.

By: Peter Parkes

Peter Parkes — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I read somewhere that Safari RSS would support third-party feed reader software, such as NewsFire and NetNewsWire, although can’t seem to find the original article – can anyone confirm that this is or isn’t the case?

By: J D

J D — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Since Safari 2 has an RSS section in its prefs that allow you to set the default RSS reader, I’d be willing to bet there is a default that you can change to set what the default RSS reader is in 1.3 as well. I’m guessing that its just set to safari by default.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

RE: #8 (JD) – hmmm… I’ve already got NetNewsWire set as the default helper for RSS feeds. I’d place my bet on Apple taking their eye off the ball while focusing on Tiger.

By: superfunkomatic

superfunkomatic — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

geez, i can’t see what all the fuss is about. so you have to copy a URL to another application until some sort of standard develops. i think there are more important things to worry about.