475083 - Many RSS feeds does not show up properly.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[k b]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.19 (20090105)

Many RSS feeds have problems to show up content or the individual feed articles.

Here is one feed that seems to work correctly:
http://www.sr.se/Podradio/xml/p1_konflikt.xml

Here are a few where the textual information is not displayed, but articles do shop up and files may be downloaded:
http://www.sr.se/rssfeed/rssfeed.aspx?Poddfeed=3821
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/globalnews/rss.xml


And here are a few feeds that does have a really trouble to show up in any resonable way, problematic already in subscription step.
http://podkast.nrk.no/program/dagsnytt.rss
http://podkast.nrk.no/program/radiodokumentaren.rss



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to the feeds.
2. Most will subscribe well, some not.
3. try to use the feeds.


Expected Results:  
feeds should add up correctly and display all textual information.

Comment 1

[Walter van Holst]

I have similar problems with Thunderbird on OS X 10.3 (Tiger). None of my existing RSS-feeds are rendered properly in HTML and only parts of the textual content are rendered.

Comment 2

[Morphal]

I have a similar problem I guess :
Thunderbird 3.1.7 on Ubuntu 10.10

I have two RSS feed which show up correctly in Thunderbird. 
But I try to subscribe to this one : http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/feed/ without any success. It gets stuck on the "feed check" step when trying to suscribe, thus I have to cancel it.
The only thing I could say is this feed shows up correctly in firefox. 

Any ideas?

Comment 3

[Hyogapag]

Attachment: Cyvergeo RSS feed display

Comment 4

[Hyogapag]

Sorry for double posting, this is my first time reporting bug for more than a year.
I have similar problems too since TB 3.1. Some feeds such as the one below don't display right (see upper screenshot). It displays well under FF, Akregator or Liferea, though.
http://cybergeo.revues.org/backend?format=rssdocuments

Comment 5

[alta88]

(In reply to k b from comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13)
> Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
> Build Identifier: 2.0.0.19 (20090105)
> 
> Many RSS feeds have problems to show up content or the individual feed
> articles.
> 
> Here is one feed that seems to work correctly:
> http://www.sr.se/Podradio/xml/p1_konflikt.xml
> 
> Here are a few where the textual information is not displayed, but articles
> do shop up and files may be downloaded:
> http://www.sr.se/rssfeed/rssfeed.aspx?Poddfeed=3821

not reachable.
> http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/globalnews/rss.xml
> http://podkast.nrk.no/program/dagsnytt.rss
> http://podkast.nrk.no/program/radiodokumentaren.rss
> 

if you have set these 3 to view web page (rather than summary) you will see nothing as the publisher doesn't provide a link according to spec.  if you check view summary, you will see content plus the attachments.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> feeds should add up correctly and display all textual information.

if the feed is constructed correctly.

(In reply to Morphal from comment #2)
> I have a similar problem I guess :
> Thunderbird 3.1.7 on Ubuntu 10.10
> 
> I have two RSS feed which show up correctly in Thunderbird. 
> But I try to subscribe to this one : http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/feed/

this works fine.  a number of errors are better handled in Tb10 and upcoming releases.

(In reply to Hyogapag from comment #4)
> Sorry for double posting, this is my first time reporting bug for more than
> a year.
> I have similar problems too since TB 3.1. Some feeds such as the one below
> don't display right (see upper screenshot). It displays well under FF,
> Akregator or Liferea, though.
> http://cybergeo.revues.org/backend?format=rssdocuments

this works fine.

if there are any problems with Tb10, feel free to resubmit.