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If you want to style RSS, you can just go straight to JavaScript and avoid all the XSLT mishegas. I made a site with to get people started: https://www.rss.style/ Example RSS feed:…

One thing that would be nice is to have the feed be human readable. It is as easy as adding a single line to the XML and setting the content type [1]. Your feeds are also missing a…

One of the things hindering RSS/Atom is poor discoverability. Normally, clicking on a link to an RSS/Atom feed brings up either a "wall of text" or even worse, a "Save As" dialog, …

RSS.style is my site. I'm currently testing a JavaScript-based workaround that should look just like the current XSLT version. It will not require the XSLT polyfill (which sort-of …

There wasn't free hosting in 2003 when I first made it. I have thought about converting it to static, but it would be a complete rewrite, and there is always some other new shiny t…

I get where you are coming from, and have put some thought into it. I built the site over 20 years ago, and while it was fun to make, I wouldn't have maintained it this long if is …

I run a couple similar sites: FileFormat.Info[1] has a page per codepoint. It has been around awhile, so the UI isn't as whizzy, but it has all the data and works w/o JavaScript Un…

And these aren't niche/advanced features? I'm using Firefox now, and did not know about them. If I'm using them, it is only accidentally or because they are the defaults. But I'm a…

I agree with you. But a typical consumer will already be using Chrome, and has no reason to use Firefox. If one of these advanced/niche technologies takes off, suddenly they will h…

I don't disagree with you, but given (A) how will Firefox ever compete? One possible way is doing things that Google and Chrome don't (can't). Catering to niche audiences (and winn…

Which is why Firefox is steadily losing market share. If Mozilla wanted Firefox to succeed, they would stop playing "copy Chrome" and support all sorts of things that the community…

I don't want the feed to look amazing. I just don't want to present a wall of XML text to non-technical users who don't know what an RSS feed is!

That is not the point: I already have the blog's HTML pages. I want the RSS feed to be an RSS feed, not another version of the HTML. The XSLT view of the RSS feed so people (especi…

You are absolutely right!!! But... What about people who don't "1) Know what RSS is"??? And what if you could make it friendly for them in 4 minutes? You could by dropping in a XSL…

But you are tech-savvy and know about RSS & feed readers and such like! Think about it from a non-technical user's perspective: they click on a RSS link and get a wall of XML text.…

Making RSS/Atom feeds friendly to new users is key for its adoption, and for the open web. XSLT is the best way to do that. I made a website to promote doing using XSLT for RSS/Ato…

I think that "market demands" is a bit of a misnomer. RSS was (and remains) too tech-y for the mainstream. If browser vendors had made it easy for mainstream users, would there hav…

Of course built-in support for RSS would be better. But what are the chances of that happening?

Well, I do agree with you, but... 1. This is pretty difficult for someone who doesn't know about RSS. How would they ever learn what to do with it? 2. Browsers don't do that. There…

Huh? How would a static site generator serve both RSS and the HTML view of the RSS from the same file? To be extra clear: I want to have My RSS Feed link on my blog so everyone can…

I want to use it on an RSS feed: to make it sensible when a new users clicks on an RSS link. I specifically want it to be served as XML so it can still be an RSS feed: I don't even…

Because we want RSS to be friendly to new users. If you display a RSS feed as a wall of XML text, no new user will understand. If you just make it so clicking a RSS link brings up …

On my blog that uses a static site generator?

1. Everyone who uses a static site generator can add XSLT 2. Everyone who doesn't use a static site generate only has to add the XSLT file and add a single line to the XML. No need…

So... you want newbies to install an extension/plugin before they get a human-readable view of a feed??? That's about as new-user-hostile as I can imagine.