Ticket #115 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Using IFRAME to view RSS feed entry URL in viewing window

Reported by: trac-user Assigned to: fox
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: backend Version: 1.2.5
Keywords: Cc: blair@orcaware.com

Description

I point tiny-tiny-rss to a number of Trac RSS feeds to monitor open-source projects and commits to them and what I commonly find myself doing for them is clicking on the feed entry in the top-right window so that the synopsis appears in the bottom-right viewing window. Then (in Firefox), right-clicking on the URL to open a new tab so I can view the actual diff.

It would be nice to actually view the URL that the feed points to, say

http://tt-rss.spb.ru/trac/changeset/1440

instead of just the synopsis in the viewing window.

An IFRAME could be used for this and it could be set up to use the current view style or an IFRAME on a per-feed basis.

This would make it much easier and faster for me to read through my blogs.

Regards, Blair

Change History

10/25/06 00:04:38 changed by fox

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

You are one version late :) Up to 1.2.4 I used iframes and it was actually possible to view article content inside of tt-rss interface (if I understand correctly and that's what you wish for).

Sorry, this was discarded for various reasons (one of them being the great switch to css/xhtml for the interface) and is not coming back. :(

10/25/06 00:23:38 changed by trac-user

Yes, that's correct, to view article content.

The reason I'm asking is that my normal RSS reader is Thunderbird which does show article content, and loads the article content very quickly. It makes going through your feeds very fast. Right now using tiny-tiny is probably 2-5 times slower than Thunderbird for going through Trac commits and diffs.

However, the reason I switched to tiny-tiny-rss is to have my own RSS feeds available for reading regardless of where I am, say without my laptop and Thunderbird available. And this is a feature I miss from Thunderbird.

If you're considering competing with desktop RSS readers which already have a speed advantage over web based RSS readers, I think you would want to consider this.

Could you reconsider putting it back in?

Regards, Blair

10/25/06 00:50:02 changed by fox

I see the point, but that's just not going to happen. Because:

a) iframes are non-standard, the amount of overrides for all this stuff to render properly between browsers was tremendous and very limiting to theming and such;

b) showing articles inside of tt-rss had some problems (browser-related) even with iframes;

c) reworking interface from iframes back to css/xhtml gave substantial speed boost (there is a lot less service information going around) which I'm not willing to forfeit;

d) I'm not competing with anyone :-), the main feature is and always will be the ability to access feeds from any location while having responsive enough interface which tt-rss implements reasonally well, I think.

The better way to fix your Trac problem would be to include actual diffs inside RSS, at least this is how this thing is supposed to work - RSS viewer shouldn't concern itself with arbitrary information like whatever article links to, only feed contents, but this probably will be hard to implement and push into upstream - I could be wrong here, though.