Cool Safari RSS Features

[Pangloss]

Interesting article about RSS integration features in Safari:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/technology/circuits/28pogue-email.html?

 

Safari is Apple's web browser for Mac OSX, so don't bother trying to get it. But check out this cool features:

 

Now here's where it gets interesting. Exactly as in Firefox, you can bookmark this RSS feed. From now on, your Bookmarks menu (or Bookmarks bar) lets you know how many new articles have been published on the Web site you subscribed to--you'll see, for example, "NYtimes.com (7)"--so you don't waste time visiting pages where there's nothing new.

 

If you drag several of these bookmarks into a single bookmark folder--because they're all on one related topic, like tech gadgets--you gain a new option: a View All RSS Articles command that sprouts from that folder. Now ALL of your RSS subscriptions appear on a single, neatly consolidated page. On my Safari bookmark bar, for example, I have a folder called Tech that shows me, at a glance, all the new entries from Engadget, Gizmodo, NYTimes.com/tech and, of course, my own Pogue's Posts--all on a single page.

 

But wait, there's more! Suppose you now search this master page for something that interests you: "Treo," or "HDTV," or whatever. Safari hides all entries except those that match--and now you can bookmark THIS page.

 

In essence, you've now built yourself a self-updating, personal clipping service.

 

Nifty.

[Aeternus]

Looks cool. Got to love Apple and their nice interfaces

 

Aren't parts of Safari based on KHTML (KDE's own browser)? Maybe well see some of this additional functionality leak back into KHTML ?? (I don't use it but i know Apple do give back to some of the open source projects they work with and its nice to see). Although from what i can gather KHTML seems to be involved in Safari mostly on the page rendering side of things and so perhaps it won't. Oh well never know.

[Guest bkronbergs]

Ah yeah, you really have got to love Apple and their interfaces!!!! In fact, I am typing into a text box in Safari right now!! Ho ho ho, The RSS feature is brilliant, there is a screen saver that uses the RSS feature to display the Headlines from many of the main newspapers in the US/UK, and also it includes any BBC RSS feeds it can find, so really, really great stuff!