249650 - Add support for a website header to the message header pane (for RSS)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

When showing an RSS feed, we currently have a separate gray box for "view in
browser". Clicking it takes you to the website for the feed.

We can integrate this directly into the message header UI as another header
field whose value is the URL. 

Patch coming up.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: screen shot with the new header field

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

This patch leverages the Content-Base field that is already getting written
into the mailbox by the RSS feed parser. I was going to create a new custom
x-mozilla header here but then I thought it could be kind of cool for non RSS
messages. i.e. if someone sends you a web page and we set the content base on
the message to match the web page (to make relative links work), then it would
be nice if we showed the website url in the header pane. That idea may backfire
and we can adjust things to taste later.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: updated patch

This updated patch also includes style rules for pinstripe on the Mac.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

I've checked this into the trunk and the branch.

The extensions\newsblog changes were not migrated to the branch yet. That'll
happen for free when we move the newsblog directory onto the branch.

Marking this fixed for now.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: supplemental fix

removes some unnecessary HTML and style rules

Comment 6

[Raj Bhaskar]

Will this patch be backported to MailNews in the suite?