On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Ian Fette <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I actually like what Peter was getting at, in the sense that this is "an
>> action you can take with the current page". I think we should design for
>> that general case and then treat RSS as an instance of that case, rather
>> than treating RSS as something special that we get out the door now. Nick's
>> other proposal actually seems like a pretty reasonable start here.
>>
>
> I think the basic idea of Nick's bookmarklets proposal works well for this,
> in the sense of having top-level items and a secondary menu, assuming we
> give users sufficient customization power.  I am ambivalent on whether these
> need to be in the right side of the address bar.  As long as I can delete or
> move (into the chevron menu) the "star" and "rss" icons, then perhaps they
> are sufficiently more commonly triggered to justify defaulting them to
> top-level positioning.  Data would be nice!
>

That's the basic idea. I could be convinced to move the RSS icon into the
menu by default, but as the former PM on Google Reader, I would tend to side
with Mohamed and promote it :)

>
> If we think this is the long-term route, it's probably feasible to do more
> of a one-off solution for RSS in the short term and simply change the
> implementation over time to make the RSS button a "super bookmarklet".
>

Agreed. Long term, the bookmarklets would be controllable by extensions. You
could write an extension with a content script to detect RSS feeds. This
script could then display the "subscribe" icon when applicable.


>
> PK
>
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>

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