![]() Once upon a time, you clicked a link to a RSS feed, you’d see an option to do something with it: save a live bookmark in Firefox, or add it to Google Reader. I recently restored the Subscribe Icon back to the main navigation here when it started to dawn on me… Do you kids know what to do with RSS? It got used for everything else too and remains a fundamental part of podcasting, but in the explosion of Web 2.0, it was a very serious part of websites keeping in touch with their user-bases. It enabled websites’ fans to get updates, quickly and easily. Really Simple Syndication was invented in the Cretaceous period, roughly 100 million years ago. How do you kids stay up to date with the websites you like? Do you know what RSS does? How are websites supposed to advertise update-subscriptions? It used to be everywhere, now it’s gone hidden or dead. While I was busy aging like soft cheese, someone killed-off* RSS. In fact, I prefer it due to the more customizable swipe gestures.Wait! What happened to RSS?! - Oli Warner Oli Warner About Contact Oli on Twitter Subscribe Wait! What happened to RSS?! I also feel that this is the most "Reeder" like app I've used. I'm sure many of the other apps handle this the same way. *I don't mean to sound like a Just Reader fanboy, it's simply the app I use and have experience with. The alternative is super pixelated larger pictures. I will say I wish Just Reader handled images a little better in that it still centered the picture above the text (not hard to do, but I guess that was the devs design choice), but it scales pictures up to, but not past the devices native resolution, but it cannot magically make pictures higher res. For example, LifeHacker uses ~600x400 pictures on their website, but half that size on their RSS page. Then you have the problem that a lot of places send smaller pictures over RSS. However, other places use much smaller pictures. If you look at a feed like The Verge that uses large pictures, you will seem them fill edge to edge (on Just Reader). A 320x480 picture would be about 2.7" diagonally on a 7" 1280*800 screen. I went through that with my Read It Later app I was working on before I canned it when Pocket came out.įor the apps that overcame that issue (Just Reader being one of them) you then have the problem of online pictures being small. It takes some rewriting of how views measure themselves. You'd think it would be built in to android to make that an option, but by the time you are allowed to measure pixel size, all the automatic calls have passed. As for why an app doesn't do what you want it to do, trust me, it's a stupidly hard thing to do. Pictures show up pretty good, though not perfect. What don't you like about Just Reader? My go to tablet reader. In fact, I prefer it due to the more customizable swipe gestures. ![]() ![]() *I don't mean to sound like a JustReader fanboy, it's simply the app I use and have experience with. ![]() If you look at a feed like The Verge that uses large pictures, you will seem them fill edge to edge (on JustReader). I went through that with my Read It Later app I was working on before I canned it when Pocket came out.įor the apps that overcame that issue (JustReader being one of them) you then have the problem of online pictures being small. What don't you like about JustReader? My go to tablet reader.
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