RSS is kind of like bookmarking - it's bookmarking a page in your reader, instead of in the browser. That's why this intersects with the other design doc Nick posted about Bookmarklets that moved the Star. We show an RSS icon in the location bar because it's page related.
I don't think there's yet consensus on what the default set of actions available in this "page related notification/action" area are, but given the feedback we've received from many users, this is one of the more popular ones. -Ben On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Ian Fette <[email protected]> wrote: > I've always wondered why the RSS feed icon was in the URL bar in Firefox. > How many of our users actually know what an RSS feed is, much less use it? > (I have a feeling that googlers are probably a biased sample). It's always > seemed like a pretty random thing that someone just decided to throw an icon > up for. I also grow concerned with too many things crowding the address bar > - it's really the only "trusted UI" we have anywhere. So, two questions: > 1. Does it really make sense to show the "RSS" icon for all users, or is > there a way to only have it show up for people who actually use RSS feeds? > (Not sure how to define those users, maybe we recognize that they have a > reader installed / registered / whatever?) > 2. Does it really have to be *in* the address bar? > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've posted a pretty simple design document that covers a frequently >> requested feature: subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds in Chrome: >> >> >> http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/feed-subscriptions >> >> There are some mocks missing, but Glen is on vacation, so I figured I'd >> send this out anyway. >> Let me know if you have any feedback! >> >> -Nick >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
