278642 - Implement handling of wfw:commentRss

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Martin F.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

Please support wfw:commentRss to enable the user to keep track of comments on
specific feed items.
I think a good way to display comments is like grouped messages in newsgroups.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Martin F.]

When checking for new feed items, <slash:comments> can be used (if present) to
determine if new comments have been made. If so, the user should be informed (e.
g. by underline the feed item, like in newsgroups when there are unread
replies), and when the user expands it new comments should be retrieved.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Matěj Cepl]

No, this is RFE and quite certainly wasn't resolved yet.

Comment 6

[alta88]

the <wfw:commentRss> tag simply points to a comments feed url.  to support threading/grouping in Thunderbid, each comment item would have to have a field referring to its parent post; there is nothing in the rss2.0 spec to support this.

the Atom spec, however, does have an extension specifying how this works and it has been implemented in bug 761656.  this is but one of many reasons to use Atom and not an rss variation.