It's kind of like bookmarking, except so are a lot of other things (as Peter mentions, microformats, availability of search engines, etc). Many of these are things that a subset of people use. I acknowledge that they are vocal on the support groups and that they are out there, but I don't think RSS users come anywhere close to a "majority of users" (or for that matter bookmark users). We have in the past been hesitant to add UI or even preferences for these minority-use-cases. Do we have any data on how many people actually click the RSS indicator in FF? I actually like what Peter was getting at, in the sense that this is "an action you can take with the current page". I think we should design for that general case and then treat RSS as an instance of that case, rather than treating RSS as something special that we get out the door now. Nick's other proposal actually seems like a pretty reasonable start here.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <b...@chromium.org>wrote: > > RSS is kind of like bookmarking - it's bookmarking a page in your > reader, instead of in the browser. That's why this intersects with the > other design doc Nick posted about Bookmarklets that moved the Star. > We show an RSS icon in the location bar because it's page related. > > I don't think there's yet consensus on what the default set of actions > available in this "page related notification/action" area are, but > given the feedback we've received from many users, this is one of the > more popular ones. > > -Ben > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Ian Fette <i...@chromium.org> wrote: > > I've always wondered why the RSS feed icon was in the URL bar in Firefox. > > How many of our users actually know what an RSS feed is, much less use > it? > > (I have a feeling that googlers are probably a biased sample). It's > always > > seemed like a pretty random thing that someone just decided to throw an > icon > > up for. I also grow concerned with too many things crowding the address > bar > > - it's really the only "trusted UI" we have anywhere. So, two questions: > > 1. Does it really make sense to show the "RSS" icon for all users, or is > > there a way to only have it show up for people who actually use RSS > feeds? > > (Not sure how to define those users, maybe we recognize that they have a > > reader installed / registered / whatever?) > > 2. Does it really have to be *in* the address bar? > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Nick Baum <nickb...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've posted a pretty simple design document that covers a frequently > >> requested feature: subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds in Chrome: > >> > >> > >> > http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/feed-subscriptions > >> > >> There are some mocks missing, but Glen is on vacation, so I figured I'd > >> send this out anyway. > >> Let me know if you have any feedback! > >> > >> -Nick > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
