From the Blog of Dave Hyatt, one of the lead programmers on Apple's Safari Browser:
Now that I've started using NetNewsWire to read blogs, I find it frustrating to be constantly switching back and forth between NetNewsWire and Safari. This led me to wonder: should RSS capabilities and browsing capabilities be merged into a single "uber-browser" application?
And then:
OmniWeb already contains a very nice bookmark scheduling/updating mechanism. Imagine if you could bookmark an RSS XML file and have a browser transparently present it as a folder in your bookmarks, complete with an unread count and child items that represent blog entries. This mechanism would mesh nicely with bookmark scheduling/updating schemes that exist already in browsers.
The answer to the question posed above (for me at least) is a hearty, "YES." I love NetNewsWire but if that funcationality was built into the bookmark manager for Safari, my reading/surfing/browsing experience would be so much simpler that it would be very hard to argue any downside from the user experience standpoint.
8:56:04 AM 
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