I dunno guys I think it'd actually be better to make an RSS-first browser than an AI browser
RSS was good tech and it worked well, that's why google tried their hardest to kill it
it was never gonna take off with the general public because of the godawful name but for computers nerds like us it was perfect
and hell it's been long enough since google reader that you could legit hype it up as a new technology that's gonna improve everything about the way you use the net. The tech blogs would laugh about it but nobody reads those anyway except computers nerds
Firefox pls think of a better name for RSS and then make it front and centre of your browser, kthx
@ifixcoinops What would the "browser" part of it do that couldn't be done in a regular web app?
@j2kun @mauve @ifixcoinops yeah. I'd add: Bookmark a site and if the page has RSS it's now in your feed (shown on new tab/window), and bookmarks with feeds get a little symbol you can press to open a submenu of things from the feed of just that site. And I'd call it all "feeds", "this site has a feed", etc...
@kitten_tech @j2kun @ifixcoinops Very interesting! I've been thinking of doing some stuff along these lines (For ActivityPub) in @agregore , but RSS seems like an even better target. Plus it being read only simplifies a lot.
@mauve @kitten_tech @ifixcoinops @agregore I bet a solid RSS-forward browser would also make it much easier to integrate and incentivize more indie web stuff like web mentions, though that surely would be harder to get right
@j2kun @kitten_tech @ifixcoinops @agregore Yeah the hard part there IMO is connecting the browser to whatever home server you have for initiating tge mentions. I feel like detecting mentionable pages to then redirect to your server of choice could be doable. easier in the ActivityPub case for stuff that implements the client-server API
@j2kun @mauve @ifixcoinops when visiting a page in your feed, UI elements that let you go to the next/previous item in the feed would be amazing.
@calcifer @j2kun @ifixcoinops Oh! I remember Opera had that at one point. I've been meaning to add it but I'm not sure what the most reliable method to get the "next page" is. I've also added a "go up" so you can navigate to parent directories.
@mauve @j2kun @ifixcoinops for pages in a feed, “next” is the next one listed in the feed, so it’s a lot easier than solving the general case of “what counts as a next page?” (since almost no one is providing that meta data per the spec)
@mauve all the stuff that Firefox used to do back in like 2004, but most of all have the bookmark toolbar highlight sites that had been updated since you visited last
@mauve @ifixcoinops Something like Blog Quest which snaffles feeds as you browse, but: the new tab page shows a few items each from your frecently-visited sites, and you can “pin a site” (subscribe to the RSS feed).
@mauve @ifixcoinops oooh I can think of a few: search bar that prioritizes sites you subscribe to via RSS, new tab page that shows the most recent article in the RSS feed from your top ten feeds, pre-load sites in your feed so it's snappier to visit them.