255243 - RSS description field not used.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Adrian Moisey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.7+ (20040810)

If I import from this feed http://slashdot.org/index.rss I get all the
headlines, but Thunderbird ignores the description field. If I click on the news
I wanna view, I dont really want to download the linked page, because ive
already downloaded the description. May be a "view description" and view site"
option

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to feed
2. Download latest feed
3. View a news item

Actual Results:  
Web site downloaded

Expected Results:  
Description should be avalible to view (since its already been downloaded)

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

did you select "show the article summary instead of loading the web site" option
in the account manager setting or the feed property dialog?

Works for me.

Comment 2

[Adrian Moisey]

Destciption field doesnt work on
http://www.d2.co.za/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss

There is no easy way to switch between the description and web page... ie. I
open the description up, and I think its interesting and want to view the web
page, I cant.

Comment 3

[Zbynek Winkler]

(In reply to comment #2)
> There is no easy way to switch between the description and web page...

Selecting View > Message Body As > Simple HTML or Original does the switch "for me".

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> > There is no easy way to switch between the description and web page...
> 
> Selecting View > Message Body As > Simple HTML or Original does the switch
"for me".

Adrian: did that fix it for you? If it did, resolve this bug as WORKSFORME.