Safari to have built-in RSS reader

Sneak Preview of Tiger reveals new features

[whoisgregg]

Safari will have a built in RSS reader [apple.com] when Tiger ships next year. Does this mean mac users will start to expect their favorite content sites to be RSS capable? Does this mean webmasters will need to offer RSS feeds to satisfy their mac visitors?

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Just noticed, Safari has something new called "private browsing" which claims that "no information about where you visit on the Web, personal information you enter or pages you visit are saved or cached." Interesting... what about IP addresses?
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[pleeker]

This is a great addition, IMO, because I've never been too fond of having to fire up a separate RSS reader. I much prefer reading RSS feeds in my web browser while doing other news browsing, and so I've been using Yahoo's RSS reading capabilities to make that happen.

Does this mean mac users will start to expect their favorite content sites to be RSS capable? Does this mean webmasters will need to offer RSS feeds to satisfy their mac visitors?

I still think RSS is a little ways off in terms of general public acceptance. We offer RSS development as a service to our clients, but none of them have a clue what it is and none of their customers (to our knowledge) have started campaigning for them to offer it on their sites. Granted, we're not in a Big City and we don't deal with Major Fortune 500 Companies ... but still, I think RSS remains largely a popular tool among more sophisticated web surfers.

[whoisgregg]

I still think RSS is a little ways off in terms of general public acceptance.

My impression, too. Bloggers know precisely what it is and appreciate it, but I've never talked to any "regular person" who had a clue. My experience has been that the mac community can really lead the way which is why I pseudo-sense that Safari building it in could help to popularize RSS feeds. If, of course, the feeds themselves are worthwhile!