7/21/2004 01:00:00 PM - Livemarks
I've been working on the next release of Pinball for Firefox. There are two icons that we need to add to the statusbar, Livemarks and Update Notification. It's easy enough to copy the CSS from classic.jar and the forums, but I realized that I don't have any idea what What Livemarks are. If you visit a web page, and it has an RSS or Atom Feed, you can bookmark that feed. This creates a pseudo-folder in your bookmarks, the contents of which are the headlines from the feed. To be honest, I think this is something that should be an extension, not in the core. There are plenty of aggregators out there, so why clutter up your bookmarks folder with these? I suppose it's useful if you get a notifier every time something new appears there. But I still prefer an aggregator. For those LiveJournal users out there, you can add RSS feeds to your Friends page.
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You're are looking at it from an user standpoint, and i somewhat agree: if you have a large number of feeds it's not very handy.
Now consider the feature in a different perspective: they're putting in the core native handling of feeds. Livemarks are a ready to go showcase of such potentiality, making everyone aware of the improvement. Point is FF internally now speaks rss/atom/etc. like all modern browsers and s.o. are going to do.
Now consider the feature in a different perspective: they're putting in the core native handling of feeds. Livemarks are a ready to go showcase of such potentiality, making everyone aware of the improvement. Point is FF internally now speaks rss/atom/etc. like all modern browsers and s.o. are going to do.
It's because Safari is getting RSS support, and buzzwords are the most important thing when it comes to browser features.
Seriously, I mean, isn't bookmarking a blog and being told when it updates via some bookmark voodoo much better than having this whole separate silly idea? It's not worth bitching about until the thing seems to work properly this way anyway, but that sounds like a much, much better way of doing things. I'll start something on MZ when I get motivated.
- Chris
Seriously, I mean, isn't bookmarking a blog and being told when it updates via some bookmark voodoo much better than having this whole separate silly idea? It's not worth bitching about until the thing seems to work properly this way anyway, but that sounds like a much, much better way of doing things. I'll start something on MZ when I get motivated.
- Chris
I can understand if Firefox had aggregation, but just linking to something is pretty much the same as "check page freshness" for determining whether you should visit.
Rss buzzword? Where do you live? Feeds are a reality and a seasoned one. The whole thing has been conceived before Apple announcement, so it's simply a case of smart people going in the same direction.
Whether the browser can become an aggregator platform rivaling dedicated apps is disputable, but rss parsing capabilities are utterly needed both for internal and third party developers.
Give time and i'm sure will see some pretty things from this.
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Whether the browser can become an aggregator platform rivaling dedicated apps is disputable, but rss parsing capabilities are utterly needed both for internal and third party developers.
Give time and i'm sure will see some pretty things from this.
I'm the anonymous of before.
http://persone.softwarelibero.org/person/baluba
bye
