In an RSS feed, each article may have a webpage associated with it. RSS clients display this associated webpage in various ways. For example, Akregator displays a link at the bottom of the article that reads "Complete Story." Clicking on it opens the associated webpage's URL in a web browser. Some clients don't display a link like this, so some websites include a link that says "read more" or "read the rest of the article" within the content of the RSS article so that it's displayed consistently across RSS clients.
Most RSS clients make it easy to copy the URL of the linked webpage, or at least open the URL in a web browser, whether built-in or external.
Some RSS clients feature entire web browsers built into them, as such, they may be able to load and display the linked webpage instead of displaying only the content from the RSS feed's XML file. For example, if a website includes only a snippet of their article's content in the RSS feed that is sent to RSS clients, the client may load the webpage instead so you can view the whole article inside the RSS client.
In the past, this would require tabs, because websites were designed for the large monitor screens of PCs. Nowadays, we have responsive design, so most webpages will display just fine in the width of a single vertical pane inside the RSS client, because they're designed to support the narrow screen width of smartphones.
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