Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Web Feed Handling

Web feeds

• Provide high level API for customizable internal Feed database (internal RDF is too restrictive)
• Mark entries as read
• Notification of feed update
• Set refresh rates per feed
• Set expiry options per feed
• Set notification options per feed
• Show # unread items in a feed
• Enhanced Feed Preview rendering
• Build Home Page from subscribed feeds
• Show feed entry summaries & content
• Remember 1..n system feed readers
• Enable a "River of News" feed viewing option
• The infoRSS or Sage extension is a good model for updated RSS handling
• Add Live Boomark directly from feed link
• Right mouse click onto link which points to a RSS feed shows "Add this link to LiveBookmarks"
• Add a tooltip containing the full feed title (useful for long titles which are trucated) .
• Ability to merge feeds together, interlacing their news items in a combined date order

There could be 2 parts to the internal RSS reader: a sidebar on the left and the main content area, but a better approch is to have a small, none intrusive GUI like infoRSS ticker extension
Sidebar:

• Include the URL of the feed so it can be copied easily to the user's favorite RSS reader (the URL bar should also display the feed URL)
• Buttons for other available feeds such as an hCard feed, OPML feed, or whatever
• Calendar so you can select a day to see all items on that day
• Some way of selecting a date range that's not a blatant rip-off of Safari?

Content:

• Completely extendable: anyone can add their own way of rendering XML as simply as adding a search engine to the search box. That way Firefox can easily keep up with newer Microformats and such.
• Themeable
• List view and extended view, similar to Google Reader
• Allow user to choose between loading the item Description or the actual URL in the content pane.

or a scrolling ticker in the status bar like infoRSS extension.

• Handle feeds needing authentication and do it seamlessly with live bookmarks.

- On Web Feeds
- TechCrunch article about IE7
- Google Reader
- infoRSS

RSS Feeds

Right-clicking on the RSS Feed icon should give you the following tasks:

• Copy RSS Feed URL
• Open with default RSS application (like FeedDeamon etc.)
• Open it with an RSS reader extension (like infoRSS etc.)

infoRSS

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