What is RSS?

There are a lot of information on the internet - news, sports, weather, etc.But we can’t read them completely because we don’t have much time by work or school.The tool that help us and manage information is called RSS.These information are called feeds.We can know that this pages can be managed by RSS by icon display on browser.

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Web browsers detect RSS

Almost browsers detect RSS automatically. If they detect RSS, small icon displays on browser’s address bar.This icon describes that RSS feed exists.There are some versions of RSS. So, we may have to choose one when we have clicked the icon. We don’t have to subscribe feeds of all RSS versions.

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About RSS reader

If we read RSS feeds, we can save a lot of time to read many information.The reason of this is that we can see all feeds headline at once on RSS reader.We can choose display headline or full of feed. It’s option of RSS reader.RSS reader is embedded in some browsers like Firefox, Internet Explore.Moreover, Google reader is one of the RSS reader that run on web. It shows on iGoogle, too.

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More information about RSS reader

The biggest advantage of RSS reader that is embedded in web browser is that we don’t have to change programs. We can see some web pages and RSS reader at the same time.But RSS reader on web browser has some disadvantages. One of them is that there isn’t better way to synchronize RSS feeds.Google Reader can solve this problem. It’s high performance. However, it’s has bad point, too. It’s difficult to see feeds.

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What is RSS written?

RSS is the simple text file on the web server. On this point, RSS and simple web pages isn’t different.RSS description is based on Resource Description Framework(RDF). It lies during XML and simple web pages. So, this description is similar to markup language.RSS reader can read RSS by RDF. It’s world standard.

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RSS can be understood by everyone

All browsers understand RSS because RDF is world standard. Everyone know the way of interpreting RDF’s tags.These tags tells to web browser or RSS reader how to display feeds. For example, fonts, creator’s name, date, etc.If we want to add RSS feed to weblog, we don’t have to understand about how to write RDF. It’s done by weblog tools automatically.

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