Have you thought of styling your XML file with CSS? This way it can be viewed with regular browsers, which some people might prefer - say, because there is no way to read feeds in M2 as of yet, and using non-Opera newsreaders is not a viable option because of the software forcing the user to view pages in IE.
I have thought about adding a stylesheet, and have written some experimental stylesheets,but for the time being, I have opted not to. The reason is simply that newsfeeds have never been meant for viewing directly in a web browser, and I do not wish to encourage such use.
Up until this comment feed, all feeds have had a more web-browser-friendly version through the front page. I do realise that this feed does not have such a direct equivalent, and I might at some point in the future create a remedy for this.
I just made some small changes to the newsfeed page, explaining that a newsfeed is actually meant to be read by dedicated software, and I also created a list of such software and services.
Since you’re an Opera/M2 user, I’m going to point you in the direction of NNTP//RSS, a free aggregator that acts as a “man-in-the-middle”-aggregator, converting RSS feeds to NNTP newsgroups, which you can comfortably read in M2. The software is written in Java, so it should run on most platforms.
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Comment from Moose on 2003-11-09 00:40
Have you thought of styling your XML file with CSS? This way it can be viewed with regular browsers, which some people might prefer - say, because there is no way to read feeds in M2 as of yet, and using non-Opera newsreaders is not a viable option because of the software forcing the user to view pages in IE.
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Comment from Arve on 2003-11-15 17:07
I have thought about adding a stylesheet, and have written some experimental stylesheets,but for the time being, I have opted not to. The reason is simply that newsfeeds have never been meant for viewing directly in a web browser, and I do not wish to encourage such use.
Up until this comment feed, all feeds have had a more web-browser-friendly version through the front page. I do realise that this feed does not have such a direct equivalent, and I might at some point in the future create a remedy for this.
I just made some small changes to the newsfeed page, explaining that a newsfeed is actually meant to be read by dedicated software, and I also created a list of such software and services.
Since you’re an Opera/M2 user, I’m going to point you in the direction of NNTP//RSS, a free aggregator that acts as a “man-in-the-middle”-aggregator, converting RSS feeds to NNTP newsgroups, which you can comfortably read in M2. The software is written in Java, so it should run on most platforms.
This discussion has been closed. No further comments may be added.