Feed reader complaints and the new and improved Memphis OPML
So I've been fighting with Sage (my favorite feed reader) for the last half hour or so and I decided to compile a quick list of what I'd like to see in a feed reader. Since the chances are pretty slim that A) any other developer ever actually reading this and B) he or she caring, I suppose I'll just have to code it myself eventually.
Anyway, here's the list:
- Fault Tollerant (can recover from a bad parse).
- Gives the option to ignore markup inside the plain text elements of an RSS feed (title, description, comments).
- Doesn't keep trying to sell me yet another web service.
- Gives me the option to Read and Write my collection of feeds to a live OPML file on a webhost of my choosing.
- Doesn't collapse the organizational structure whenever I import a new OPML file.
- Allows a manual OMPL export of a selected subset of RSS feeds in my catalog.
- Gives me the number of new posts beside each blog when I update.
- Gives me a "new posts" view that is an aggregate of the content that is new since I last updated.
- Integrates into my browsing environment (Firefox).
1 comment:
Great work. Now the Memphis OPML needs an icon.
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