Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  How Do You Spell RSS? (06 May 2005) People who don’t get feeds, still don’t. Even if we pretended there weren’t two standards (Atom and RSS) to contend with (which thanks to Feedburner we can, there’s still a gaggle of terms floating around to cause confusion: LiveFeeds, My Yahoo News Feeds, RSS, XML Orange Buttons, etc. Not to mention the confusion that occurs between those expecting an e-mail subscription and an RSS one. For example, we have a Subscribe button under our comic and a newsletter subscription on the right of our articles. The former is for feed subscription, the latter is self explanatory. We don’t like this. Tom and I spend a lot of time discussing why it sucks and what we need to do about it but frankly, we just haven’t gotten around to it. Dave Shea eventually got fed up and created his own friendly page. The problem is that was a year and a half ago and it’s still one of the better solutions out there. Sadly, until it becomes standard to have an installed application support feed://, whether it’s the browser, e-mail client or a separate application, the “friendly xml” page solution is still the most viable. Article URL: http://www.ok-cancel.com/comic/86.html Read 182 more articles from OK/Cancel sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Interaction and Exhibit Design in Museums     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy