The lack of RSS support is one of the major shortcomings of Camino as a browser. Even Firefox has an extension (FeedYourReader) that plays off its live bookmark feature. Yet we lowly Camino users have nothing to speak of. In lieu of any real support, folks have written some nice AppleScripts for CamiScript to discover feeds and open them in your reader.

This alternative seemed better than nothing, so I ran off to the CamiScript Script Repository in search of a script that would work. There before me were three scripts. One worked with NewsFire, another with Vienna, and a third was generic. I use NetNewsWire Lite, the full version of which is supposed to be the most popular RSS reader out there, so the only option that would work would be the generic feed script. But there's a catch. There's a section of your preferences called "Link from other application" and the script requires that you select "Reuses the frontmost window."

I'm a guy who likes to open links from other applications in a new tab, so this option just wasn't going to cut it for me. I decided to poke and prod through some of the AppleScript code in the hopes of discovering the secret to telling NetNewsWire to open the feed. And within the generic feed script I saw the secret. The script actually did nothing more than launch a javascript link in Camino. I puzzled out that AppleScript must still be considered an external application, and that's why the above option was required for the script to work. But a bookmarklet would do the job nicely.

So, without wasting any more of your time with my rambling, I present to you the bookmarklet. Add this link as a bookmark to get the bookmarklet. And the code? Just look at the link's destination to get it.

In a nutshell, the bookmarklet sniffs out feeds then directs you to feed:http://feedurl/. Your browser and reader should then be smart enough to know that url is destined for it and should act accordingly. The neat thing is that we'll probably be seeing more and more aggregators accepting feed: links, not just on OS X but on Windows and Linux too, making this bookmarklet functional on any browser and any platform.

I wish I knew the original author of the script so I could credit them directly, but the best I can do is say where I got it and hope for the best.