- RSS "user experience"<P>This <A href="http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8d4d5a4b-f035-4b28-9829-bbf4977208c0">article</A> says that the user experience for aggregators and subscribing right now sucks. That's pretty obvious.</P>
<P>A solution that would work: Treat RSS like Usenet newsgroups. Either make Outlook Express support RSS (using a NewsGator type interface), or make RSS Bandit support NNTP, but either way, do them both in the same interface.</P>
<P>Then when you click on an RSS link, feed the click to the “default aggregator” the same way clicking on a <A href="news://">news://</A> link takes you to your default newsreader. The default aggregator can give you the ability to subscribe the same way Outlook Express gives you the option to subscribe.</P>
<P>RSS is a lot like Usenet, except that the target isn't a topic, the target is a single publisher.</P>
<P>IMHO skinning the RSS to make it readable is just confusing. Use a stylesheet to say “you need an aggregator to read this” (in a nice way) and leave it at that.</P>
<P> </P>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:07 GMT