RSS: A Reply (Author's follow up to "RSS Is Dying")

Great piece. I have a couple of comments, here..

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/11/krocCamenProvesRssIs...

I don't think the tech industry wants to kill RSS. I think the tech industry wants to get pageviews by proclaiming it's dead.

What's all this about forking the browser? That is WAY over complicating the matter.

Both Chrome and Firefox extensions are essentially Javascript. So while they aren't 1-to-1 compatible they could use 95% of the same code.

The real problem is there's seemingly no money to be made off the suggestions he gives and it will take a lot of effort so no one wants to do it. I don't know how to fix that problem but if there's someone out there who does want to put the effort into this they should know it wouldn't require forking a browser to do it.

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