2015-10-02 14:37 GMT+02:00 Matthias Kuhn <[email protected]>: > > > On 10/02/2015 11:54 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > > On 02-10-15 10:41, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > >> My original plan for the news feed was a push notification system for > >> conferences, releases... > >> > >> I do not see any advantage of the current system over having a link > >> which opens a browser window. > >> > >> I would like to clearly separate the two discussions: IF there is a good > >> reason to ship the news feed internally, THEN we will find a solution to > >> ship a library instead of downloading an external one. > > A real push mechanism? > > Or do you mean just pulling a most recent rss or atom feed? > > I was referring to pull/push in terms of UX. Originally the user had no > other choice than looking at the news feed (push). Now the user has to > click the tab to get information (pull). > > Reasoning: Most pages (github/stackoverflow...) and software (mail > clients) give you a notification by means of an icon when there is > something new available in your inbox, in a folder... In short, the > users knows that there are unread items. > > At the moment we do not push the information to the user and we do not > give him any hint if there's something of interest to him on the tab. > Why would he still click on it after having found nothing new the last 5 > times he clicked the tab? How does he know the frequency of information > update? > > If we integrate the reader inside the app we should give the user a hint > by notifying (icon) or "pushing" the information to him (always show the > feed). If we don't, let's not pretend to be smart. Let's avoid the > overhead. Let's just offer a link, it does the same. > > It was a bit short-sighted of me to integrate the feed without first > thinking about a use-case (i.e. what kind of information > deserves/requires to be pushed). Sorry for that. > > Cheers, > Matthias >
IMHO the news tab with "push-like" behaviour is a good idea (and I thought it was already decided). I'm not suggesting to reimplement a feed parser from scratches, just to not use any CDN loaded js libraries for that. A feed stream is a simple XML file and many parser implementations are available in python. Cheers -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it
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