309072 - Multiple RSS Feeds Using Different Type Values Not Displayed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[ron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4

If a site has multiple RSS feeds, which all use a different type="" value,
Firefox will only allow you to add a random feed, instead of allowing you to
select which feed you want.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Visit any website which uses multiple RSS feeds (Wordpress Blogs) and click on
the RSS icon.

This code would generate this problem:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0"
href="http://www.cavemonkey50.com/feed/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92"
href="http://www.cavemonkey50.com/feed/rss/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3"
href="http://www.cavemonkey50.com/feed/atom/" />

This code works fine, and the drop down which is suppose to appear to allow you
to select which feed you want does:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Subscribe to LaG News"
href="http://lag.cavemonkey50.com/feed/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Subscribe to LaG
Podcast" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/LaG" />
Actual Results:  
It appears the Atom feed is usually selected instead of giving you the option to
select which feed you want.

Expected Results:  
Displayed a drop down, allowing you to select a feed.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That was by design: see bug 305134 comment 3 and various things leading up to
it, including bug 302121 comment 59 and
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Feed_Handling:User_Interface

There are valid (if probably wontfix) bugs that could be filed on it, but this
isn't one of them: your examples are exactly why it exists. The average Firefox
user couldn't care less which of RSS 2.0, 0.92, or Atom she subscribes to when
they are all the same, she only cares when there's a choice between News and
Podcasts.

Comment 2

[ron]

Well what about a situation when the News feeds is an ATOM feed and the Podcast
is RSS 2.0. Those situation will occur, so this is a bug which should be addressed.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That's why I said that "There are valid (if probably wontfix) bugs that could be
filed on it" and why I filed bug 309085 on exactly that. Bug numbers are cheap,
we can afford to have a bug about the exact problem, rather than morphing one
about something else invalid into something valid.

Comment 4

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Resetting QA Contact to default.