CFA/Web Feeds-Notes
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Contents
Purpose
Examine a bunch of browsers, existing Firefox Add-ons, and web services to generate a report that describes:
- Which features are available
- How each handles a list of use cases (below)
- A summary of where each is different/unique
- Some conclusions about which aspects seem most innovative and interesting that we might want to consider for Firefox
Research
Browsers to investigate
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Apple Safari
- Opera
- Camino
- SeaMonkey
- Netscape
- Maxthon
- OmniWeb
- Shiira
- Flock
- iCab
- ???
General browser notes
- Platform support (Win, OSX, Linux, others?)
- Produced by (company/organization)
- Based on what other browser/rendering engine, if any?
- Date of last browser update, if known
- Price
- Open Source? If so, under what license?
Firefox Add-ons to investigate
- Sage link
- Whiz RSS link
- RSS Ticker link
- News Fox link
- OPML Support link
- Reliby link
- Update Scanner link
- LiveClick link
Web services and other apps to investigate
Web services
Other apps
- NetNewsWire (associated with NewsGator)
- Endo
- NewsFire
- Vienna
- Thunderbird
Use Cases
Web Feeds/Live Bookmarks
- Receive notification of available web feed
- Subscribe to a web feed locally
- Subscribe to web feed using another service
- Receive indication that I am already subscribed to a feed
- Modify a subscribed web feed
- Update/Refresh a subscribed web feed
- Receive notification of new subscribed web feed items
- View all subscribed web feeds
- View properties of a single subscribed web feed
- View new items from one or more selected web feeds
- View new items from all selected web feeds
- Mark one web feed item as read
- Mark selected web feed items as read
- Mark all web feed items as read
- Visit source of web feed item
- Remove a web feed
- Organize web feeds
- Tag web feeds
- Group web feeds
- Sort web feeds
- Content retrieval (none, title, summary, full text, full content, +enclosures)
- Content archiving (keep for X hours/days, keep forever, etc)
Other Features
List the other Web feed-related features a browser, add-on, or web service has if not listed above.