Feedview is a 7KB Firefox extension that applies a very sweet XML transform on RSS and Atom feeds to make them easy to read directly inline. To see what I mean, click on one of the two RSS 2.0 icons in the navigation area on the right. The resulting xml isn't easy to read. Now install Feedview and click on one. Sweet, huh? You can still access the original XML code by viewing source. There's a cool little slider bar that shows up on the page too - looks like an interesting extension to dissect!

I've noticed that some xml files don't want to load in the browser. This is the case with or without Feedview, but I notice it more now that I've been clicking on XML links more often. I think it has something to do with the XML content type on those sites.

I'm actually a bit conflicted about XML feeds as a way to fully read news. I really like being able to read a site in the actual site layout, rather than having all sites look uniform and bland. Plus, I put considerable time into the design of the site, and that's all lost with direct feed reading. Of course many sites with ads, etc. don't supply full text in feeds so you'll visit the site - that's one way to solve the problem.

My review will cover an even better news reading tool that complements Feedview and shows the full power of XML news feeds.

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