{"id":2624,"date":"2012-07-25T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2012-08-02T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:58:36","slug":"subscribe-to-feed-safari-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/2624\/subscribe-to-feed-safari-extension","title":{"rendered":"Subscribe To Feed Safari Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Safari 6 is available as part of Mountain Lion 10.8, and as a software update for Lion, I can finally explain the rumblings I made <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/statuses\/198254627160989696\">months ago<\/a> about an extension facilitating feed subscription directly from Safari.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation behind my foray into Safari extension development was my early adoption of Safari 6 during the beta phase. I noticed they had removed the long-standing, built-in &#8220;RSS&#8221; button near the URL bar. This button makes it easy to subscribe to an RSS or Atom feed for a blog, or any other site that offers such a feed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disappointed by Apple&#8217;s decision to remove the button, but when life hands you lemons &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My <em>beta-quality<\/em>, more-or-less unsupported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/safari\/SubscribeToFeed.safariextz\">Subscribe to Feed<\/a> extension adds a handy button to the toolbar that, when a page offers RSS or Atom feeds, can be clicked to easily open the feed:\/\/ link, which should automatically open your favorite news reader.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this extension fills a void for those of you missing the beloved RSS button from Safari 5 and earlier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since I posted this on Wednesday (the day Mountain Lion 10.8 was released), the response has been overwhelming. I didn&#8217;t realize there would be so much interest in restoring the functionality of the Safari RSS button.\n<p>The interest has been so strong that more than a couple people have installed the extension apparently unaware of its purpose. The gist of the extension is to make it easy to subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds <em>in an external application<\/em>, separate from Safari. For example, it will open in <a href=\"http:\/\/netnewswireapp.com\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reederapp.com\/mac\/\">Reeder<\/a> or any other application on your Mac that claims to support &#8220;feed:&#8221; style URLs.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks who are just getting in to desktop RSS readers are discovering they don&#8217;t have a &#8220;default app&#8221; setting on their Mac, and Apple no longer provides a simple UI inside Safari for setting the default. The best solution I know for this issue is to download and use the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubicode.com\/Software\/RCDefaultApp\/\">RCDefaultApp<\/a> to set a default RSS reader for your Mac.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nA number of users who use Google Reader through the browser would like it if there were a way for this extension to automatically subscribe in Google Reader instead of through a Mac client. I&#8217;m not sure exactly how this would work but I bet it&#8217;s possible with a preference in the extension that would offer the ability to open a Google Reader URL for subscribing. This is a little ambitious though, so if you want this feature and happen to be able to code Safari\/JavaScript solutions, please send me a proof of concept for subscribing to Google Reader from JavaScript on a web page, and I&#8217;ll see if I can integrate it into the extension.\n<\/li>\n<li>On August 2, 2012, I released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2681\/subscribe-to-feed-1-0b4\">Subscribe to Feed 1.0b4<\/a>, addressing a number of issues from the initial release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Safari 6 is available as part of Mountain Lion 10.8, and as a software update for Lion, I can finally explain the rumblings I made months ago about an extension facilitating feed subscription directly from Safari. 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