Two days ago Anne van Kesteren noted that he's now using XSLT to serve a formatted and styled version of his RSS 2.0 feed to browser visitors. Russell Beattie admits this morning to recently seeing this technique for the first time at allaboutsymbian.com. We like the idea for two reasons.
Unstyled RSS isn't user friendly when viewed in a browser. Russell says it best:
Having links on pages to RSS for those who have no idea what RSS is, is a real user-unfriendly thing to do. The monkies don't like when they click on links and receive a boatload of XML in their face.
A styled feed will surely make more sense to the novice user.
Barring any incompatibilities -- we're looking into it -- we'll be styling our feeds shortly.