RSS Feed Readers for Firefox and Chrome

I've been going through some cross browser testing and came to the issue of newsfeed readers. Historically we have been focused on IE, Outlook 2007+, and SharePoint.  But now that the Manage 2000 web site is supporting other browsers, I started wondering about the news feed reader choices that work well with Firefox and Chrome.

What I found was a plethora of website based news aggegators.  These do not work well for Manage 2000 purposes.  We would like to read rss feeds coming out of Manage 2000 on our intranet without providing access from some Internet hosted rss feed reading site.

These animals do exist.  I poked around with searches like "local RSS reader".

For Firefox users there has been a suitable and popular reader available as an extension for a long time called 'Sage':

For Chrome users I found a couple of extensions that work hand in hand.  'Slick RSS Feed Finder' alerts you to the available feeds on a page and lets you subscribe to them. And 'Slick RSS' lets you actually read and manage your feeds:

Manage 2000 Release 8.0 Beta

Well Allan grabbed the beta copy last week to start cleaning.  So no more development sneaking into that branch.  Cleaning up a release usually happens over several weeks so beta sites should be able to load up early in July.

In the mean time I am going back over the mobile styling options. JQueryMobile has 5 color swatches to their standard look.  And it is a good look.  But it isn't IPad-ish, and it isn't Android Holo-ish, and it isn't Microsoft Metro-ish or whatever the new "Metro" is.

What seems natural and obvious in hindsight is that if I am using my IPad I would be most comfortable and the M2k feature would be most seamless if the Manage 2000 web functions fit in with that style, and if I am using a Galaxy tablet I would be most comfortable if the Manage 2000 web functions came up looking like Holo, etc...

So I spent last week working on integrating some new stylesheets to emulate some of the major mobile device styles and revising the web preferences to support an "AutoSelect" option that will pick a style based on the browser UserAgent identification in the HTML header.

The various styles and swatches (colorization schemes) need some polishing to eliminate things like dark blue titles on black backgrounds and so forth, but the basic mechanism is in place and the effect is pure magic.