299408 - CSS support for RSS summaries

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Ronan Jouchet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

Many feedreaders like Sage, http://sage.mozdev.org/ or Safari, use CSS to
enhance reading of RSS summaries.
It makes reading more pleasant (colors, borders, justification, ...).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

isn't that the same as bug 299354 (for Firefox) ?

BTW: do you want to read the summary in Thunderbird in the first place ? Unlike
Firefox, you can't open an URL (not in the GUI at least).

Comment 2

[Ronan Jouchet]

(In reply to comment #1)
> isn't that the same as bug 299354 (for Firefox) ?

No, bug 299354 is about "stylizing" raw xml.
Thunderbird already does a part of this job by retrieving the date, author,
title fields and inserting them into the interface.

What I meant was, instead of displaying summaries using the standard Serif font
and the standard layout, allowing css to "encapsulate" them.

In fact this request just aims to bring some eye-candy to RSS summaries, and CSS
is (from what I know) the smartest way to achieve this.

Hoping I'm clearer...

Comment 3

[alta88]

i'd like to see this as well:

selecting an RSS folder would display all summaries in the Message Pane, and a css style could be applied (exactly as in Sage and most other standalone readers) for fonts, colors, element display etc. and most importantly - 1 or 2 columns.

i vastly prefer the Tb or standalone reader 3 pane method of RSS reading, for speed of processing lots of items.  esp if combined with rfe 333237.  the power user 3 pane ergonomic will not exist in whatever Fx finally does..

but i also have to ask: is RSS functionality being abandoned in Tb?

Comment 5

[alta88]

heh.

css in messagepane is certainly supported, with a Stylish html rule, or in userChrome.css.

and message summaries now also exist.

as for feeds being supported, it's still unclear.. ;)