December 8, 2005

NexTag RSS

Got around to looking at NexTag's implementation of RSS, very nice.

Like with MSN, you can combine the search results with attribute filters for more meaningful alerts. The feeds themselves look very clean, with small pictures complementing a few small sections of well-formatted text.

My only quibble is they placed the RSS button -all- the way at the bottom of the page, even below the site footer. This dynamic feature is trapped in static-link no-man's land. In other words, when I see a standard-looking footer, I'm not expecting anything in it, or below it, to be different from page to page. Even as much as I rely on RSS, I have to do a double-take to remind myself that this feature is somehow tied to the dynamic search content in the heart of the page. Ah well, perhaps when RSS becomes more mainstream the little icon will appear to the right of the "Showing __ of __ matches" text.

NexTag RSS
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on December 8, 2005 at 3:02 PM
Archived at NexTag