Re: [syndication] Making feed subscribing easier...

["Jason Brome" <jason@methodize.org>]

Kevin,

> Focus on the user experience.  DHTML and layers just doesn't work for
> production code.  For example the dialog kept moving as I was moving the
> mouse.  The fonts were too small... and other little problems.

The user experience is absolutely key.  Ultimately something like quickSub
should not be required - the user should have a seamless subscribing
experience, not matter what aggregator they're using.  However, in the short
term, the visual metaphor can be tuned (the joys of open source - take the
code, make it prettier, contribute it back to the community etc).

> This isn't your fault.  It is 2003 and we should have better standard
> web controls.

... and we should remove the need for this type of selection to be visually
rendered and executed.  If I want to listen to a mp3 file, I click on the
link, my default selected media player fires up, and the audio starts to
play.  I want the same level of experience with my aggregator - click the
subscribe button on the blog page, I'm subscribed.  Also, being a aggregator
developer, like yourself, I'm very much interested in the development of a
standardized subscription model that can be implemented across all
aggregators, and supported by the common browser applications.

Regards,

Jason

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Jason Brome
jason@methodize.org
nntp//rss Project
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