Dave Winer: "...ultimately we'll need help from the browser to make the act of subscribing simple. That doesn't mean the future of RSS is in the browser."

I guess this is true if one believes that there is a future for syndication in the browser in the first place. I certainly don't believe that.

We need better and different client tools, better information delivery and consumption mechanisms - and we'll get them. Making the act of subscribing simple means getting help from the likes of Westinghouse and Ford and other client developers (like Adriaan and Dmitry and Brent and...), not Microsoft or Opera.

The browser is but one type of client. Its great at HTML. It doesn't need to be great at RSS in order for RSS to be successful.

[Later: fixed the bad permalink to scripting.com...oops.]