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= Introduction =
The '''feed handling''' capabilities of Firefox 1.x are limited to locating feeds advertised by sites in <link> tags and offering to add them as "Live Bookmarks". This is useful to some but not all, as there are many other specialized RSS aggregators, client applications and web services. These are not served by this UI. Also, clicking on links to feeds on web pages usually results in garbage (raw, unstyled XML) being displayed.


Better RSS feed discovery, preview and management. This is the project page for the design and implementation of Feed Handling features within the Firefox browser.
== Goals ==


= Project Update =
Make it easy to subscribe to sites so that users can receive updates to them in their favorite reader. Ensure that clicking on links to feeds shows something meaningful.


The advanced feed formatting and subscription features in Firefox nightly builds are being removed due to bugs. This feature will re-emerge in 2.0, after some more careful design consideration.
== 2.0 User Interface Requirements ==


[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305134] Backout Bug
* [[Feed Handling/Viewing|Viewing]]
* [[Feed Handling/Subscribing|Subscribing]]
* [[Feed Handling/Handlers|Handlers]]
* [[Feed Handling/Configuration|Configuration]]


The location-bar based feed icon will remain, but function similarly to how the status bar icon did in Firefox 1.0, except it will try harder to auto-detect "single feed, multiple formats" cases before offering a menu of choices for subscription.
== Design Docs ==


= Links =
* [[Feed Handling/Type Determination]]
* [[Feed Handling/In Page Preview]]
* [[Feed Handling/Default Feed Reader]]
* [[Feed Handling/Determining The Handler]]
* [[Feed Handling/Web Handler Registration]]


* [[Feed Handling:User Interface]] - User Interface design for proposed feature.
== Bugs ==
 
This cluster of features is tracked in bugzilla through [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325081 bug 325081]
 
== 3.0 Features ==
 
Extend this UI model to all files for which an automated download action is not configured. Include an "Open With..." context menu item on all file links.
 
== Links ==
 
* [[Feed Handling:Pretty Printing]]
* [[File Handling]] - long term overall architectural wishlist
* [[File Handling]] - long term overall architectural wishlist
* '''OBSOLETE''' [[Feed Handling:User Interface]] - User Interface design for proposed feature.

Latest revision as of 01:18, 18 August 2006

The feed handling capabilities of Firefox 1.x are limited to locating feeds advertised by sites in <link> tags and offering to add them as "Live Bookmarks". This is useful to some but not all, as there are many other specialized RSS aggregators, client applications and web services. These are not served by this UI. Also, clicking on links to feeds on web pages usually results in garbage (raw, unstyled XML) being displayed.

Goals

Make it easy to subscribe to sites so that users can receive updates to them in their favorite reader. Ensure that clicking on links to feeds shows something meaningful.

2.0 User Interface Requirements

Design Docs

Bugs

This cluster of features is tracked in bugzilla through bug 325081

3.0 Features

Extend this UI model to all files for which an automated download action is not configured. Include an "Open With..." context menu item on all file links.

Links