The iPhone feed reader web app in Firefox
A few days ago, reader.mac.com turned up, and was theorised to be an iPhone-only feed reader web app. Now that the device has been released, you can check it out from other browsers:
- Install User-Agent Switcher (or change your user-agent string manually)
- Use the iPhone user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3 - Visit http://reader.mac.com/mobile/v1/http:%2F%2Fmaebmij.org%2Fblog%2Ffeed, or your choice of feed URL
Apparently, Safari on the iPhone sends RSS feeds to this app instead of processing them locally.
July 1st, 2007 at 10:07 am
[...] If you want to see an approximation of this because you don’t own an iPhone, you can follow James’s instructions for doing this on Firefox, or use iPhoney. The image on the left is a screen shot of iPhoney using the URL to my blog’s direct feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/curmi [...]
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
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