Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

You could use my feed reader better than this :p
So, what'd be those "mistakes with RSS" he's on about?

A paragraph from a recent posting at Scripting News regarding Mr Dave's visit to Mozilla:

Yesterday at Mozilla, I urged them to get aggressive with powerful RSS support in the browser. Like the news organizations, if they wait much longer, Google Reader will have too much of a lead to catch. It may already be too late. In their case, much of their funding comes from Google, and if Google is smart (they are) somewhere on their vast campus, which surrounds the tiny Mozilla building, in a corner of Google-land in Mountain View, they are working on their own fork of the Mozilla codebase, one designed perfectly to run their apps (mail, spreadsheet, calendar, maps, search, widgets, wp, etc). Mozilla is in the same place as the rest of us, about to be swamped by the Google juggernaut.

If I recall correctly (please CMIIW), it is MoFo's policy that "Firefox will not become an RSS reader. But I seem to recall that Firefox-teh-Browser was intended to be a delivery vehicle for the Gecko rendering engine. Or something.

I have no idea what these two factoids have to do with the block quote (I'm not even sure they're facts, in fact). But I feel they're supposed to. Have something to do. With the block quote. Or something.

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Ferdi, I believe that the current Mozilla policy about RSS in Firefox is to have only minimal support in the browser and leave to the user the possibility to use external programs/webapps if they need more.

IOW, I think they correctly recognized that probably different users will prefer different RSS interfaces, unlike the web.

Why bother Asa with anything further, didn't he say he stopped paying attention.

What a nugget.