On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:58 pm, Martin Girschick wrote:
Handing off seems pretty tricky:
1) How would feed urls be identified when you click a link? The .rss ones, maybe, but what about .xml?
As it seems, there's no MIME-Type for RSS-Feeds - they usually come as "text/xml" - too bad. The idea would be to implement a list of known MIME-Types which are openend directly after download (perhaps downloading them to a temporary directory) - this would make playing Realaudio-files a little bit easier.
2) How would the helper app be identified? From a URI scheme perspective, Camino *is* the correct helper app, since it's http, so how would it pick?
Okay, "helper app" was not the correct term here, sorry. AFAIK the feed://-"protocol" has been defined but is rarely used.
I found a discussion on that here: http://kalsey.com/2005/01/handling_rss_in_the_browser/
I think rss feeds should have a new protocol type rss://. This would allow browsers to spawn them
off to external handlers.
Maybe we can be the first to implement this, and encourage the RSS readers (NetNewsWire, PulpFiction etc) to support it?
Simon
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