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Please add support for Firefox's Live Bookmarks (RSS)

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Development in progress Development in progress
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.4.3
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: RSS
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    All
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_14_STABLE

Description

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) supports a new feature called live bookmarks. It allows to subscribe to an RSS of the current page with a click.

Just open the Mozilla homepage (http://www.mozilla.org) with Firefox and note the red RSS icon at the bottom right.

To enable it, a small addition is needed to the HTML as explained here:

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/3297

There can be more than one RSS entries on a page.

This would make it easy for Firefox users to add live bookmarks.

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

From Eloy Lafuente (stronk7 at moodle.org) Thursday, 14 October 2004, 07:56 AM:

Received!. Thanks for the submission. Now it's in my list! We'll analyse it, sure!

(as reference: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=13840)

From Eloy Lafuente (stronk7 at moodle.org) Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 06:50 AM:

Yeah, very interesting!!

The only problem is that RSS must be declared in the HEAD section of the page and, at that level, Moodle doesn't know what is going to be showed...

But I'll try it...sure!

From Samuli Karevaara (samuli.karevaara at lamk.fi) Thursday, 13 January 2005, 06:41 PM:

I have enabled support for Live Bookmarks for Moodle forums as follows:

  • splitted rss_get_link to rss_get_path and rss_get_link that uses it too (see attached rsslib.php)
  • added rss link generationg to forum view.php before print_header_simple() call and put the link to $meta parameter (see attached view.php)

From Samuli Karevaara (samuli.karevaara at lamk.fi) Thursday, 13 January 2005, 06:41 PM:

[sorry for no CVS patch... but the changes are small, so check out the attached files]

From Eloy Lafuente (stronk7 at moodle.org) Thursday, 13 January 2005, 11:55 PM:

Nice solution for forum (and glossary) views. But what happen with the List of Forums page? Enabling it for Firefox could be too much hard!

If Martin approves it I'll apply your solution (and to glossaries too).

Ciao

From Samuli Karevaara (samuli.karevaara at lamk.fi) Friday, 14 January 2005, 02:18 PM:

The List of forums page should be fine too, just has a lot of options in the Live Bookmars drop-up menu

The Title attribute should be used to show something else than RSS though. That change would suit the single forum/glossary rss cases too, so you would see Subscribe to 'General developer forum instead of Subscribe to 'RSS'.

Some king of re-using of the $rsspath in the List of forums page might be nice.

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - From Eloy Lafuente (stronk7 at moodle.org) Thursday, 14 October 2004, 07:56 AM: Received!. Thanks for the submission. Now it's in my list! We'll analyse it, sure! (as reference: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=13840) From Eloy Lafuente (stronk7 at moodle.org) Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 06:50 AM: Yeah, very interesting!! The only problem is that RSS must be declared in the HEAD section of the page and, at that level, Moodle doesn't know what is going to be showed... But I'll try it...sure! From Samuli Karevaara (samuli.karevaara at lamk.fi) Thursday, 13 January 2005, 06:41 PM: I have enabled support for Live Bookmarks for Moodle forums as follows:
  • splitted rss_get_link to rss_get_path and rss_get_link that uses it too (see attached rsslib.php)
  • added rss link generationg to forum view.php before print_header_simple() call and put the link to $meta parameter (see attached view.php)
From Samuli Karevaara (samuli.karevaara at lamk.fi) Thursday, 13 January 2005, 06:41 PM: [sorry for no CVS patch... but the changes are small, so check out the attached files] From Eloy Lafuente (stronk7 at moodle.org) Thursday, 13 January 2005, 11:55 PM: Nice solution for forum (and glossary) views. But what happen with the List of Forums page? Enabling it for Firefox could be too much hard! If Martin approves it I'll apply your solution (and to glossaries too). Ciao From Samuli Karevaara (samuli.karevaara at lamk.fi) Friday, 14 January 2005, 02:18 PM: The List of forums page should be fine too, just has a lot of options in the Live Bookmars drop-up menu The Title attribute should be used to show something else than RSS though. That change would suit the single forum/glossary rss cases too, so you would see Subscribe to 'General developer forum instead of Subscribe to 'RSS'. Some king of re-using of the $rsspath in the List of forums page might be nice.
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assigning to rss component

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