1149206 - Fetch raw reading list content in Java, not only in Gecko

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Reading List, defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

As I understand it, we just use a simple XHR to grab content. We don't actually evaluate the page at all.

That implies that we can have a 'rawcache' -- a new item that arrives in the background when Gecko isn't running can be snarfed down via ordinary Java code. The existing readerizing code can then first try to load from the rawcache instead of from the web, which means we can have your reading list ready for you when you launch the browser, even if you're offline.

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

(In reply to Richard Newman [:rnewman] from comment #0)
> As I understand it, we just use a simple XHR to grab content. We don't
> actually evaluate the page at all.

Well, we do reader-ize the result of that XHR and then store the article object in the cache. But I think you just mean we never load that HTML response in a browser.

> That implies that we can have a 'rawcache' -- a new item that arrives in the
> background when Gecko isn't running can be snarfed down via ordinary Java
> code. The existing readerizing code can then first try to load from the
> rawcache instead of from the web, which means we can have your reading list
> ready for you when you launch the browser, even if you're offline.

Yeah, this sounds like a good idea. We can have a code path to reader parse that raw cache content, and then fall back to loading the original URL if that fails.