'Subscribe to Feed' Extension Puts RSS Button Back in Safari 6

[coolfactor]

IMO, RSS feeds have always been kind of cheesy.
They've traditionally had problems with servers unable to serve the content well under heavy load, and if you're launching a browser already -- why aren't you just reading the actual web pages anyway?

RSS seemed like kind of a fad to me when it first took off, and at this point, if you're using it, you may as well use a piece of software designed just to work with the feeds. Pretty sure Apple sees it the same way. Why bother with it when it has little to do with the rest of what a web browser is all about?

Totally opposite view. LOL.

RSS is a very useful technology, but you're right that the browser is not the best place for the aggregator, in my opinion. A dedicated RSS reader has always worked better for me. I never used Safari or Mail's RSS aggregators, as I found them clunky and out of place.

 

[faroZ06]

So basically, you want "Mail" to be the Mac equivalent of Outlook that incorporates "News", as well? I think Apple is right to return Mail to its roots. There's many excellent RSS readers available, for free, so there's no huge advantage to wedging that feature into Mail.app.

So now I have to download some third-party thing just to do RSS? I'd rather just have all of my messages in one place in Mail. It feels like Windows to have to download extra stuff to do simple tasks. And then I won't be able to forward any RSS updates to people. I'm not going to upgrade to have less features.

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OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion = IOS for MAC. SAD SAD SAD. Apple sells a few million iPhones and iPads and and believes everyone now wants their Macs to be just like their mobile devices. Wrong Apple Wrong. Somebody at Apple is on crack.

Long live Snow Leopard. The last real OS for the Mac.

So you don't want notifications just because they exist in iOS? But Growl is OK, right, since it's only for Mac OS, not iOS? And I'll bet that new Messages app is really dumbed down with its ability to use slightly more services. And the new voice recognition must be terrible because it has the Siri icon when you use it, and Siri is for n00bs.

 

[sinsin07]

OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion = IOS for MAC. SAD SAD SAD. Apple sells a few million iPhones and iPads and and believes everyone now wants their Macs to be just like their mobile devices. Wrong Apple Wrong. Somebody at Apple is on crack.

Long live Snow Leopard. The last real OS for the Mac.

Unfortunately, iPhones are paying the bills:

"Cool is what tech consumers want. Exhibit A: today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.

No, really.

One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975. In the quarter ended March 31, 2012, iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion; Microsoft Corporation, $17.4 billion."

From: VanityFair, August 2012: Microsoft’s Lost Decade

or

Visualized: the iDevice influence on Apple's bottom line

In the reality of the business world, Macs don't matter. They are now a sideline.

 

[fahlman]

Rosetta - gone since Lion
Airport Utility - dumbed down, features removed
Safari RSS - gone
Personal Web Sharing in Mountain Lion - gone

Rosetta was a temporary solution for a temporary problem. Apple announced the switch to Intel processors in June 2005. If you're using (Mountain) Lion and an application that has not been updated to Intel in the last seven years then your application is no longer supported by the developer and you need to find an alternative.

Airport Utility 5.6.1 if installed before Mountain Lion would still function fine. If not installed use this process to install it.

Safari RSS was poorly implemented. Use a real RSS reader.

Personal Web Sharing... if you need personal web sharing spend the extra $49 and upgrade to Server, for a total investment of less than $70.00. When these features were first introduced Mac OS X client cost $129.00. You're getting a deal these days.

 

[Sambo110]

Rosetta was a temporary solution for a temporary problem. Apple announced the switch to Intel processors in June 2005. If you're using (Mountain) Lion and an application that has not been updated to Intel in the last seven years then your application is no longer supported by the developer and you need to find an alternative.

I agree with this... mostly. But what about games? It sucks being unable to play older games like Diablo 2.

 

[Stike]

I agree with this... mostly. But what about games? It sucks being unable to play older games like Diablo 2.

Exactly!
Unlike other software that will (mostly) be replaced sooner or later with something better, games are not only commercial software but also pieces of art and culture. Those pieces must be conserved in some way, and I am not only talking about Mac software, but any platform-bound games which (without countermeasures) would be doomed as the hardware fails and decays.

Any word on PPC-Mac game emulation yet?

I know there is Sheep Shaver for OS9 software...

 

[december]

10.9

no RSS in 10.9 ... for the life of me I cannot figure out why Apple would remove this option. Who objects to being able to see, in their web browser, whether frequently visited web pages have been updated?

It's been a year since this thread died. Has anyone come up with a viable alternative?

 

[Doctor Q]

no RSS in 10.9 ... for the life of me I cannot figure out why Apple would remove this option. Who objects to being able to see, in their web browser, whether frequently visited web pages have been updated?

It's been a year since this thread died. Has anyone come up with a viable alternative?

I've been using News Notifications by Deviate because the updates show up in Notification Center. You define feeds like http://feeds.macrumors.com/MacRumors-All in its Preferences and let Notification Center handle the interface. What I like is that you can click a story in Notification Center go to to the story in your web browser, rather than needing another window open. It's handy for a few feeds but I don't think you'd want to use it if you have dozens and dozens of feeds.