260620 - Live Bookmarks feature requires <title> field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251447

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Casey Kolderup]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The RSS standard doesn't require a <title> field, but Live Bookmarks apparently
do. Most news aggregators that I've seen, upon not finding a title, grab the
first x characters of the <description> field and make THAT the title that is
displayed.  I understand that most websites that have RSS feeds have items with
"subjects" or "headlines" but if it's not part of the syndication standard, I
don't think it should be part of the Live Bookmarks standard. I went ahead and
fixed my OWN RSS feed, but if I come across another feed some day with no title
field I would feel weird e-mailing someone to ask them to add the title field so
that I can look at their feed using Live Bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find an RSS feed whose items have no <title> field (such as the one on
http://www.highlyderivative.net -- I've reverted back to the old feed in the
link tag for the time being to illustrate my point)
2. Add it as a Live bookmark


Actual Results:  
It fails to use this RSS feed, despite it being completely valid (I've checked
the feed with multiple validators)

Expected Results:  
It should realize there's no <title> field for each <item> and extract a title
for  each article by using the first X characters.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251447 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change