299354 - There is no default style for RSS/Atom feeds

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 302121

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Rozenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Currently there is no default style when you open an RSS or Atom feed, and they
are represented using the default XML stylesheet, as can be seen in these examples:
RSS: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
Atom: http://www.mozillazine.org/atom.xml

Since both these feed types are standards (even thought not a w3c standard) it
should be possible to recognize them beforehand and apply a less tech-looking style.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an Atom/RSS feed using the address bar.
Actual Results:  
The unattractive, default XML style is displayed.

Expected Results:  
A sexier style should have been displayed.

RSS 2.0 Specification: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Atom Publishing Format and Protocol:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/atompub-charter.html

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

A good option for now is to use the feedview extension:

http://www.epigoon.com/?page=feedview

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Xref bug 255637. 

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 302121 ***