I knew there were ways to work-around this. And I certainly didn’t want Mail cluttered up with hundreds of RSS items. As I didn’t use Mail as my email client, I didn’t want these RSS feeds shunted to Mail. This is when I realized that RSS support in Safari was gone. The first time I selected an RSS link in Safari 6, it automatically shunted me to OS X Mail, where it opened each RSS summary as a separate item (as if each one was an email message). Browser RSS support is also perfect for when a link to an RSS feed appears in an web article you can open the link without having to switch applications or subscribe to the feed.]įor me, the rumblings started when I updated to Safari 6 while still running OS X Lion. For example, I have a few RSS feeds saved as bookmarks, allowing me (until now) to quickly check on them directly from Safari. While most people (including myself) don’t use Safari as a complete substitute for a dedicated reader, Safari’s RSS support provides a convenient way to open RSS URLs (feed://) without having to switch to a separate application. NetNewsWire is an example of a popular RSS reader on the Mac. This can save time and hassle compared to having to separately visit each site to check for updates. From an “RSS reader” application, users can track these summaries, deciding which items to click through to read in full. Even Apple has a page listing its own RSS feeds. [Background note: RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” It’s a way for a regularly updated site to publish standardized summaries of its latest postings. Worse, anyone who now tries to access an RSS feed from Safari 6 is likely to wind up more dazed and confused than before. Apple…you’ve got some ‘splainin to do! What were you thinking when you made the wrong-headed decision to remove RSS support from Safari 6 and OS X Mountain Lion? You took a useful feature, one that was working well and causing no harm, and trashed it.
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