7/9/2023 0 Comments Rss viewer mac osWhile most people (including myself) don’t use Safari as a complete substitute for a dedicated reader, Safari’s RSS support provides a convenient way to open RSS URLs (feed://) without having to switch to a separate application. NetNewsWire is an example of a popular RSS reader on the Mac. This can save time and hassle compared to having to separately visit each site to check for updates. ![]() From an “RSS reader” application, users can track these summaries, deciding which items to click through to read in full. Even Apple has a page listing its own RSS feeds. ![]() [Background note: RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a way for a regularly updated site to publish standardized summaries of its latest postings. ![]() Worse, anyone who now tries to access an RSS feed from Safari 6 is likely to wind up more dazed and confused than before. Apple…you’ve got some ‘splainin to do! What were you thinking when you made the wrong-headed decision to remove RSS support from Safari 6 and OS X Mountain Lion? You took a useful feature, one that was working well and causing no harm, and trashed it.
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