Re:Hacker News RSS Feeds
by Grumbledour on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:18AM
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I am not sure I get the benefit of looking just at one rss feed at a time.
But that said, for the longest time, firefox did just style the feed directly and I am still sad they removed this. Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?
Re:Hacker News RSS Feeds
by JetSpiegel on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:14PM
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> Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?
https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...
A browser plugin is a pretty heavy weapon. It gives a lot of power over your browsing to whoever controls it. So I would not use one just to read rss feeds.
Greasemonkey is really great to customize websites for your [weird] usage pattern. (Tampermonkey[0] works in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox)
XHR is a pretty decent api that ignores CORS[1]
GM.xmlHttpRequest({
method: "GET",
url: "http://www.example.com/",
onload: function(response){alert(response.responseText)}
});
[0] - https://www.tampermonkey.net/
[1] - https://wiki.greasespot.net/GM.xmlHttpRequest
I don't want to host something myself.
If I have to, I would just make a service that reads and re-outputs the feed with appropriate cors headers so I can style it client side.
Maybe the author reads this and would consider adding the cors headers?