RSS reader should diff updates
[ vmassol ] 08:58, Friday, 19 March 2004

I'm using SharpReader and I don't whether the following is true for other readers.

Whenever a blog entry is updated by its author it appears in bold (indicating a change) and in italic (indicating that it's an update). However I have no clue what modifications were done to the entry and most of the time I don't have enough energy to read again the full entry trying to figure out by myself what has changed.

What would be really nice would be that the RSS reader shows a diff, highlighting the changes (as it's done for CVS commit diffs).


Comments

Luke is very responsive to feedback, you should email him directly.

It would be a nice feature to have but I have to say the "unread" filter is pretty much the only thing I use these days...

--Cedric, March 19, 2004 04:39 PM

I use Bottom Feeder (written in Smalltalk!) and yes it has the same behaviour.
Until the tools change it would be nice if blog authors could make a little note at the top of an article when they change it.

--Graham King, March 23, 2004 01:07 PM

NetNewsWire, which runs only on the Mac, implements this since last august :-)
Moreover it's customizable via a Python script.
See http://inessential.com/2003/08/21.php
and
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/10/04/netnewswire_diff_feature

P@

--patrick chanezon, March 29, 2004 02:13 PM
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