568717 - Document how to create a custom feed handler using Camino's feedhandlers code

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, enhancement)

Description

[Pierre Rudloff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100527 Camino/2.1a1pre (like Firefox/3.6.5pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100527 Camino/2.1a1pre (like Firefox/3.6.5pre)

The preference pane provides a way to add another app as feed viewer, but there is no way to add a website.
Would it be possible to select a website as feedviewer ? (Or at least document how to create an applescript app like the ones used for Bloglines, Google and Yahoo.)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

It's not feasible to support adding arbitrary websites, both because there's no standard for the URL/parameters used for subscriptions (each web-based feed reader determines that on its own) and also because we don't implement any custom handling for feed protocols (we just hand feed protocols off to the OS, just like any other external protocol).

However, it is easy enough to document how to use Camino's feedhandler code to implement your own (though implementing your own is more complicated than writing the instructions, given the requirements of LaunchServices and application bundles).

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I started writing this (just an introduction so far): http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/Development:Supporting_Additional_Web-based_Feed_Readers

(URL subject to change, but it's linked from the wiki’s Development page, under the "Information for Third-Party Developers" section.)

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I finished this up today; sorry for the long delay. :(

If you try to use them, please let me know if you have any questions.