362864 - add support for feed discovery in anchor elements

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

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

Description

[Robert Sayre]

We should detect <a rel="feed"> and populate the icon. A microformats-related problem.

Comment 1

[Michael Ventnor]

If nobody's taking it then I might be able to do it. Obviously the feed URL would be the href attribute, but will the MIME type need to be specified at all? If not, what do we fall back to if its not specified? And what will the title be, the text within the anchor or an attribute?

Comment 2

[Lachlan Hunt]

Michael, the MIME type doesn't need to be specified at all, that's one of the benefits of rel="feed".  After the resource is fetched, it should (ideally) be processed according to the Content-Type sent by the server (though there's probably some content sniffing in the code too for incorrect MIME types).

<a rel="feed"> without type="..." should be treated similarly to <link rel="feed"> without type="...".

Comment 3

[Robert Sayre]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If nobody's taking it then I might be able to do it. 

Take it, if you want.

> And what will the title be, the text within the anchor or an attribute?
> 

I'm not sure what you mean. Title of what?

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Of the discovered feed, as shown in the popup menu when more than one feed is discovered, and stored in the title property of the browser.feeds object.

Title attribute if there is one, anchor text if not, is probably reasonable.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

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