By now it is really no secret that both the new Windows OS and Apple’s OS has embraced RSS with a passion. Apple’s approach is cool because it simplifies subscribing so darn much!

When Apple took the wraps off Tiger at last June’s Worldwide Developer Conference, you could sum up the bulk of their planned changes to the Safari Web browser—at least those changes they felt like talking about publicly—with three letters—RSS.

That’s RSS, as in Really Simple Syndication (or Rich Site Summary, or RDF Site Summary, or one of an apparently endless number of other phrases that can be “acronymed” down to RSS), a way in which Web sites can provide summaries of articles and other new content via a simple summary page, called a feed. (These feeds don’t use HTML, but rather one of several RSS formats that few Web browsers can understand.) With Safari 2.0, included with OS X 10.4, Mac users no longer need a dedicated RSS client such as Ranchero Software’s NetNewsWire to view these RSS feeds; instead, they can enjoy the latest feed updates right in Safari. [Read the rest]