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May 8, 2006
Feed Content Now Visible
Today's nightly builds now show some basic entry content for feed entries:
After a2 I'm going to go through and make some more UI changes (see Mike Beltzner's post to dev.apps.firefox for more info) but this is a good start.
Thanks to Robert Sayre for writiing the new Feed Processor which provides a convenient XPCOM component for parsing various feed formats to Gecko applications. After 2.0, we will convert Firefox Live Bookmarks over to use it, and Thunderbird will transition over too. This will provide an excellent building block for RSS/Atom based extensions and XULRunner applications too.
Underneath this is a new scriptable SAX DOM parser which Robert also wrote. Thanks also to Peter Van der Beken for the review of this significant new component.
Posted by ben at May 8, 2006 8:31 AM
Comments
I've tried it, and it works well, but the feed preview is a little slow (e.g. when scrolling).
Looks nice, though. :)
Posted by: Philip Withnall at May 8, 2006 9:01 AM
A good thing, it looks like IE 7's subscription feed when you want to add one, a good thing!
-PD
Posted by: P Dunn at May 8, 2006 10:39 AM
Will the feed preview show the tag in the content that like html?
Such as img, a, br
Posted by: 093236 at May 8, 2006 11:08 AM
Can we have middle-click orange-thingy = open feedview in tab please?
Posted by: FP at May 8, 2006 11:24 AM
It's good to see a solid IE7 feature brought into Firefox. Keep up the good work.
Al
Posted by: Al Billings at May 8, 2006 6:57 PM
Great to see this in Firefox finally.
Ben - I think you need to shrink the amount of space that the message at the top takes up. It's pushing most of the feed off the page.
Al - An IE7 feature? IE7 may have this, but they didn't have it first. It's been an extension for Firefox (FeedView) for ages, and they made an abortive attempt to include it in Firefox 1.5 ages ago. Plus iirc other browsers have it (Safari?).
Posted by: Ian at May 9, 2006 12:05 AM
Al - or if you're talking about feature parity with IE7, then yes, that's a good thing :)
Posted by: Ian at May 9, 2006 12:07 AM
When is an integrated feed reader going to come along?
Posted by: Greg at May 9, 2006 1:26 AM
Greg, providing Live Bookmarks and Feed Preview in Firefox is great, but I don't want an integrated feedreader in Firefox. It's best if Firefox just gives me the option to subscribe and view the feed in my feedreader-of-choice (which is the current plan if I understand things).
Posted by: Jeff Schiller at May 9, 2006 6:37 AM
thanks for that screenshot - I hadn't thought of putting the bookmarks toolbar on the same line at the menu before. That has saved a bit of space!
Posted by: Ed at July 3, 2006 3:44 AM
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