Posts Tagged ‘news’

RSS feeds are one of the most needed functions of a web browser. As it keeps the users updated about the new content automatically the RSS are widely used by many Internet users nowadays. Thus it’s important to have a proper RSS management system as at a large scale it becomes very tangled and messy to deal with multiple RSS feeds.

Just like the other web browsers such as Firefox and IE, Safari also offers an excellent way to deal with RSS or XML feeds. It offers both the RSS shortcuts as well as a detailed panel to manage and search for RSS. If a web site offer RSS feeds then the Safari shows the RSS button on the extreme right of the address bar. You can simply click on it to view that particular feed. Wanna go back to the web site, then simply click on the RSS button once again. The one and only issue with the RSS button is that it only shows any one feed at a time. If a website hosts multiple feeds then the RSS button is not suitable for use.

To have a more detailed view of the XML feeds just go to the ‘Bookmark Bar’ under the Bookmarks menu and select ‘View all RSS Articles’ option. You will be redirected to a page where Safari will list all RSS feeds from your Bookmarks menu, Bookmarks bar and Bookmarks library. On the right side there are RSS filters which can be used to sort, find and manage the feeds. This can be tremendously helpful if you want to find a specific topic among your feeds, such as Apple related news, or recent information on Appe products like the Apple MacBook Pro. All you have to do is to simple search for a particular feed in the search bar provided and press enter.

Things seem to be heating up now ever since the launch of Apple’s Safari V 3.1. Mozilla seems to be at logger heads with Apple when it apparently set off a war of sorts when Mozilla’s chief had stated that “Apple coerces people to download software that isn’t really required”. I don’t know where that one came from since, as far I know almost every other software (including Mozilla’s Firefox) feeds on other software to render its applicability.

An excerpt from the site www.nzherald.co.nz goes like this

Mozilla CEO John Lilly has blasted Apple for including the Safari browser for Windows in its software update.
He says it tricks Windows users into downloading the new browser by bundling it with updates for iTunes and QuickTime.

Here’s more of it, from the same source:

“What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong,” said Lilly in his blog.
“It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad - not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole web.”

Is this a harbinger of things to come? Are Mozilla and Apple going to be in the ring wrestling each other out with the other big wigs like Opera and the all-mighty Internet Explorer joining in later? In my opinion – this is a non-issue being made into a raging tornado.

I second the opinion of one of the commentators there which goes like this:

“This is the biggest NON-ISSUE yet &45; and anyone using a computer that can’t use that screen and make a good decision should go back to a typewriter.”

I would say we should leave it to the users to decide who’s who and what’s what!