• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The browser had a built-in RSS button that would display in the browser location bar when any website you’re on had an RSS feed available. Clicking the button would then take you to the RSS feed for that web page

    How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place? Are there any third party extensions that do it?

    • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place?

      feeds are usually advertised in the page header as below, with type set to either application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml.

      
        
      
      

      Are there any third party extensions that do it?

      i don’t know about chrom[e|ium], but i use Awesome RSS for firefox.

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        How did I not know websites did this. Here I was always trying to guess the urls a few times before giving up lol. Today I learned…

        Thanks for the extension suggestion too!

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    But it’s clear that Google has a history of building products with RSS and killing the RSS support once it’s established a user base.

    Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don’t remember now. Better don’t rely on Google products.