303121 - Feedview: an alternate link with an HTML type attribute in an Atom 1.0 feed should be used for the title's link

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Currently, when an Atom 1.0 feed is Feedviewed, the self link (e.g. <link rel=
"self" type= "application/atom+xml" href= "http://example.com/youarehere.atom"
/>) is used as the link for the title.

If an Atom 1.0 feed provides an alternate link to some HTML (e.g. <link rel=
"alternate" type= "application/xhtml+xml" href= "http://example.com" />) that
should be used instead.

Typically this link is to the site's front page; this is where the user would
expect to be taken when clicking the title, and is consistent with Feedview's
rendering of RSS 2.0 feeds.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Actually, it's "the link with either rel="alternate" or without a rel attribute,
which has the type we like best," which will make for some interesting XSL. 

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Closing: Son of Feedview is going to use the parsing service from bug 325080 that will have a better understanding of feed formats.

Comment 3

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Resetting QA Contact to default.