2. What is RSS?
RSS is a way to subscribe to a source of
information, and get brief updates
delivered to you.
3. ● These sources are called feeds.
● Some Web-browsing software ,such as
Firefox and Opera, automatically detects
RSS feeds.
4. RSS Reader
● You can understand the ease when you can
subscribe to even more sites.
●
Firefox, IE and Safari have a feature
which lets you read the feeds within the
program itself.
5. The feature gives you two
advantages
● You don't have to ● You don't have to
switch programs switch back to
when you want to your aggregator if
catch up on your you run across a
feed reading. great site which
you'd like to
follow.
6. Creating RSS Feeds
● RSS and a normal Web site are
compounded from simple text files on Web
servers.
● RSS uses Resource Description Framework
(RDF) as a guide to tell a feed
aggregator how to read the file.
7. ● RDF is based on extensible markup
language (XML), a cousin of hypertext
markup language (HTML), which is the
language used for everyday Web sites.
● RSS tags show how to display the feed on
your screen to your aggregator.
