RSS Feed Readin' - IE7 is king

Between all the browsers that I've tried (Firefox, Opera, and IE7) and all the feed readers I've tried out (including Outlook 2007 RSS) nothing beats the simplicity and ease of reading feeds of IE7.

Most, if not all others that I have seen, utilize some type of split screen much like you would see in Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.  Perhaps it's the familiarity of reading messages like this that makes everyone build their feed reader like that, but give it up to IE7 for thinking out of the box first for a change.

Now, there are several improvements that I would suggest IE7 implement, but for the most part, I am completely satisfied with the speed and ease that I can comb through the feeds that I have subscribed to.  And the real benefit is in efficiency as I can with a single click read all the new items from a single feed - none of this split screen click for each item nonsense.

If I had a single suggestion to make, it would be to include an index at the top of the feed with the headlines from each post, and clicking the title would take you to the desired item.  This would easily allow me to comb over the headlines of a feed without having to scroll.  This is the only advantage I see over the current split screen readers out there today.  Including that type of feature in IE7's reader would make it that much more attractive.

tags: IE7, RSS