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by Anand M.
Original Post: RSS in IE7
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It created quite a bit of excitement online when it was announced that IE 7 would have support for RSS. So the question was, would IE 7 replace your Aggregator??
The support for RSS is represented by a toolbar button. If the current page has an auto-discoverable RSS feed, this button gets enabled and you can choose which feed you want to view. Once you choose the feed, then IE will serve out a formatted display of the feed.
So once it finds a feed, you just get an neatly formatted XSLTed page. It does allow you to add it to the Favourites, but will not ping the site for changes etc. It still will have to be a manual pull if you want to check for new posts.
Yes, it is a good feature to have, since you can read up RSS like any other web page, but it is not gonna replace the aggregator just yet.
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