#1119 LOW Gen2: Autodiscover RSS not implemented in browser

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#1119: Autodiscover RSS not implemented in browser
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  Reporter:  feranick     |       Owner:  marco                              
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                                
  Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  Gen2                               
 Component:  web browser  |     Version:                                     
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  Web browser, RSS, feed, News Reader
  Verified:  0            |  
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Comment (by HoboPrimate):

 I would argue against launching penguintv when clicking an rss feed, and
 use this method instead:

 - When rss/atom feeds are detected, the common rss feed icon is presented
 somewhere in Browse (could be at the end of the adress bar to follow
 convention, or as an usually inactive rss button on the toolbar becoming
 active)
 - On its rollover menu it would show the various rss feeds available, and
 would allow the kid to "Copy to Journal" one of them
 - The "feed object" can then be found on the Journal, where it would be
 resumed with News Reader.
 - From the Journal it could also be copied to the clipboard, and pasted
 into an existing News Reader activity

 What would this "feed object" be? I think it should the actual xml file,
 with the feed adress as meta-data. This way, if kids copied a feed to the
 Journal when on the internet, and only resumed it later off-line, it would
 already contain some content.

 So, my sugestion would be to get autodiscovering of feeds back into
 Browse, plug that into a button and a rollover menu pallete, make that
 pallete allow to download the xml file itself with the feed adress as
 meta-data, make that object be associated with News Reader, and make
 NewsReader open that object, subscribing to its meta-data feed adress, and
 filling the entries from the xml file.

 But then, Im not a programmer, so I can only ask for this kind of
 implementation. I think that it would really be helpfull for something
 like this to exist for the first release of the XO. Sure, it would be a
 convenience improvement (one can copy and paste URLs), but one that would
 incentivate kids to subscribe and to create their own rss feeds if it
 would be this easy.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1119#comment:4>
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