Shorts
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Styling RSS
There are actually many ways of styling XML, and they’re not hacks. W3C gives us ways to link CSS to XML, and we could use that with RSS because RSS is nothing but XML. But annoyingly browsers today break that support to render the RSS in their own way to, presumably, make them more presentable.
Take the RSS/CSS examples given here and try to open the files in Safari or Firefox. Safari tries to load the feed in its own “Subscribe to this feed” way, and Firefox has its own interstitial page asking you what you want to do with it.
I’m pretty sure most feed readers themselves completely ignore linked CSS files. I haven’t tried to check with the web based ones, but NetNewsWire does, choosing its own styles to show the items. Ideally, they would pick their own only if a CSS file wasn’t specified, but I guess that’s too much to ask.
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