Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Web Feed Handling

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Web feeds Provide high level API for customizable internal Feed database (internal RDF is too restrictive) Mark entries as read Notification of feed update Set refresh rates per feed Set expiry options per feed Set notification options per feed Show # unread items in a feed Enhanced Feed Preview rendering Build Home Page from subscribed feeds Show feed entry summaries & content Remember 1..n system feed readers Enable a "River of News" feed viewing option The infoRSS or Sage extension is a good model for updated RSS handling Add Live Boomark directly from feed link Right mouse click onto link which points to a RSS feed shows "Add this link to LiveBookmarks" Add a tooltip containing the full feed title (useful for long titles which are trucated) . Ability to merge feeds together, interlacing their news items in a combined date order There could be 2 parts to the internal RSS reader: a sidebar on the left and the main content area, but a better approch is to have a small, none intrusive GUI like infoRSS ticker extension Sidebar: Include the URL of the feed so it can be copied easily to the user's favorite RSS reader (the URL bar should also display the feed URL) Buttons for other available feeds such as an hCard feed, OPML feed, or whatever Calendar so you can select a day to see all items on that day Some way of selecting a date range that's not a blatant rip-off of Safari? Content: Completely extendable: anyone can add their own way of rendering XML as simply as adding a search engine to the search box. That way Firefox can easily keep up with newer Microformats and such. Themeable List view and extended view, similar to Google Reader Allow user to choose between loading the item Description or the actual URL in the content pane. or a scrolling ticker in the status bar like infoRSS extension. Handle feeds needing authentication and do it seamlessly with live bookmarks.	- On Web Feeds - TechCrunch article about IE7 - Google Reader - infoRSS
RSS Feeds Right-clicking on the RSS Feed icon should give you the following tasks: Copy RSS Feed URL Open with default RSS application (like FeedDeamon etc.) Open it with an RSS reader extension (like infoRSS etc.)	infoRSS
General tasks
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