Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Notification Tools: Difference between revisions

** Currently, when a Web feed is detected on a page, a Feed icon http://www.dria.org/images/onwebfeeds/feed-icon-16x16.png is displayed in the Location bar.  If a page has multiple content types available, however (web feed, microformat(s), microsummary, etc), putting all those icons in the Location bar may not be feasible.  What are the possible alternatives?

**RSS in the URL bar, that's basically becoming a standard between all browsers so let's keep that. Clicking on it brings you to a built-in RSS reader (a la Safari). Left-hand side of the page will have the URL of the RSS feed so you can copy it into your favorite feed reader and all the other feed icons that are available (microformats and etc.) that you can cilck on. Clicking on one of those brings up the requested feed in the internal reader the same way. Also you should be able to select which you want via the View menu for quicker access, ex: View -> hCard, they will only show up under the view menu if available. All feeds and such should appear in the internal feed reader. I'll start a new section about it.

** see this proposal for a [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_frm/thread/16b9d61305fecba8 service for exposing metadata]

* Implement a framework for pluggable back-ends for nsIAlertService, to use native desktop notification systems such as [http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php Galago], or 3rd party tools such as [http://growl.info/ Growl], [http://www.fullphat.net/ Snarl].