261814 - Live Bookmark requires further explanation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260051

(Firefox Graveyard :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

missing:

- the word RSS is not mentioned (commenly known ?)

- create a live bookmark (in Manage bookmarks)
- how to create a live bookmark from a <a> tag

Only how to press the statusbar icon to mcreate a live bookamrk is there.

(too often questions are asked and INVA bugs are filed about people not
understanding what they should do to make it work).

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

RSS is only one of the possible technologies behind Live Bookmarks.  Should we
then mention Atom, too?  Should we explain how certificates are based on
knowledge of p and q within a private key and p*q within a public key?

Creating a Live Bookmark within Manage Bookmarks will be covered in bug 260051.

Creating a live bookmark from a hyperlink is advanced behavior, and there's no
easy way to fix that within Firefox as is right now.  If there were a way, it
would be documented, but it's extensionland for now.  The status bar icon works
fine, and for many (most?) sites it works fine.

I'm very much inclined to make this WONTFIX, as parts are unnecessary and the
remaining part is already being covered elsewhere.  Steffen, what do you think?

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

some big names, like :

NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com/
BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Reuters news agaence - http://www.reuters.co.uk/

only have <a> links

and the current method of copy and paste works perfectly well in Firefox.
An extra extension isn't needed for the use of this.

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

We need a whole document on bookmarks and live bookmarks. That's why I filed bug
260051. Let's keep things together.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260051 ***

Comment 4

[Steffen Wilberg]

(In reply to comment #2)
> some big names, like :
> 
> NY Times - http://www.nytimes.com/
> BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/
> Reuters news agaence - http://www.reuters.co.uk/
> 
> only have <a> links
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