Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

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Thu, 11 Sep 2003

What if Safari detected RSS feeds?

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Here's an idea for Safari: Many web sites/pages now offer an RSS feed equivalent of their contents, not unlike this weblog! As RSS is getting more and more popular, it would be cool if Safari would detect the presence of an RSS feed (through the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ... > tag) and activate a UI element on its toolbar that the user could use to drag to their favorite news reading program .... Say, NetNewsWire.

mockup of Safari toolbar with an RSS item

Reminder: I'll be presenting at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference

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O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. Earlybird registration ends tomorrow (Sept 12) for O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference. I will be presenting a talk called "The Future of Web Services Applications." Other speakers that should have some great presentations include Robb Beal, Bill Bumgarner (bbum), Adam C. Engst, Andy Ihnatko, Lowell Schneider, Tim Monroe, Sal Soghoian, ... OK, you get the idea.