On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 08:01 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > Definitely should do it. That said, see: > http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/18/Orange > for why this is only a partial solution.
Well, actually Tim Bray updated that entry to clear up a misunderstanding, which invalidates most of the critique against that icon. The remaining question really is: what should a browser do when the icon is clicked? Firefox sets up a "Live bookmark". I don't know what IE7 is going to do, but your link to Robert Scoble asks some of the right questions. I think that for most purposes, a standalone RSS reader like Straw is actually the wrong choice - but it does have one use, that of downloading feeds to a standalone non-networked device (and in that function, it should support blogs of all kinds, ie podcasts etc). For an online browser, Firefox isn't too far off the mark, I think. As it happens, I stuck this into Bugzilla already, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324511 > [See also: > http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/12/18/tom-biro-wonders-when-rss-is-really-gonna-get-simple/ > where Scoble notes that the IE team is working on this problem. It > would be very cool if we beat them to it.] So, if RSS feed support was built into the browser itself, and it was in the form of Live Bookmarks, it would not necessarily have to poll each feed at the same frequency -- the poll might be initiated by the user clicking the live bookmark (or feed). But that would not be fast enough for the frequently visited feeds, nor would it help synchronising them for offline use. For that, Epiphany could either have built-in support, or cooperate with another application through D-Bus to notice which feeds are frequently visited, and schedule sync events in proportion. The transfer to a handheld device is clearly another app's domain, but why download the feed twice when it could be downloaded into/through Ephy's cache? -- Osma Ahvenlampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.fishpool.org _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
