Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2008

When Safari is displaying an RSS feed, how does it decide which messages
to mark as new?

I use Safari's RSS reader for VersionTracker's feed.  When I view it, I
expect all the messages at the top of the list to be marked as new.  And
that's how it worked in Tiger.

But since upgrading to Leopard, it seems almost random which ones are
marked as new (with a blue dot).  I can't figure out what distinguishes
them.

Maybe I should switch to a different RSS reader, but I don't monitor
many feeds, and I always have Safari running.  I use Mail.app for
low-volume feeds, and Safari just for this one, which looks easier to
page through as a web page than as subject lines in Mail (because I
can't see the one-line descriptions there without clicking on the
articles).