Re: RSS and how it works

Matt Florido wrote:

* Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-29-2005 15:20]:

Andrew Overholt wrote:

Also, does Fedora come with a "news aggregator" software or whatever it
is to use RSS feeds?

Yes: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.

Also there is liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) in
fedora-extras.

And hopefully pretty soon we'll have RSSOwl in FE:

http://rssowl.org

I get RSS feeds in Firefox.
What advantages would other RSS aggregators have over this?

I find it very convenient that I get RSS within my default browser;
any other source would have to have considerable advantages.

It's really more a matter of preference and convenience.  I also prefer
obtaining RSS feeds from my browser.  However, one thing aggregators do
that Firefox doesn't (Thunderbird does) is show the description of the
topic.  Often times, I peruse through the description and I really don't
need to read the full article.

Here's an example.  Notice Firefox will only show the title, whereas
Thunderbird and aggregators will also show description.

<item>
<title>Discovery Commander Surprised at Shedding (AP)</title>
-
	<link>
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/space_shuttle
</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">ap/20050729/space_shuttle</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
-
	<description>
AP - Discovery Commander Eileen Collins said from orbit Friday that she
was surprised to learn a large piece of foam broke from the shuttle's
external tank despite years of work to prevent such shedding in the wake
of the Columbia tragedy.
</description>
</item>

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