612556 - Atom feed view does not display author name

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[s.marshall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Atom feeds include <author><name>whatever</name></author> tags within entries.

The author name is not displayed in Firefox, whereas it is displayed in Internet Explorer (7+).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View Atom URL (example given is just a random one I found, any Atom feed that includes author names will do) in Firefox.
2. View same URL in Internet Explorer.
Actual Results:  
Firefox does not display author names. Internet Explorer does. For example, a post in IE has a date line such as:

16 November 2010, 10:23:31 | Mrmist

'Mrmist' is the author. By contrast, Firefox does not display the name 'Mrmist' anywhere on the page.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should display author name, like Internet Explorer (and other Atom reading tools such as Google Reader). The author name is a core part of the Atom standard, so it's odd that it isn't displayed.

Most people don't use Firefox to read Atom feeds, so this isn't very important to most users. It's relevant for website testing because testers often use browsers to check feeds and are confused by the missing name.