On 7/25/06, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree with both points, they should optional, and the default should
be enabled.
However, you didn't really elaborate on what you meant by optional. I
think that they should be optional both globally and at the weblog
level, and i believe that individual weblog owners should have the
ability to modify their stylesheet.
I think you should also put them in a different location, since we have
basically EOLed that old /theme/* directory now. Somewhere under
/roller-ui/ would be better.
And I think it would be nice if it was just a pure .xsl file, rather
than adding logic to it and making it a jsp. Maybe each theme should
maintain it's own xsl file?
Those are all good ideas but I think what we have not works fine, is a
great improvement over what we had before and doesn't lock us into
anything that we can't very easily change in a future release.
Any additional functionality (e.g. making style sheets optional at
both weblog or site level, allowing custom per-weblog XSL transforms,
etc.) are nice RFEs but are not required for 3.0.
I think we should should make style-sheets a site-wide option and
default it to ON. In a later release we can start getting fancy and
allowing users better control over their feeds.
- Dave
-- Allen
Dave Johnson wrote:
> The problem and solution
>
> In Roller 2.X and earlier, it's not obvious how to use the newsfeed
> links that appear in most every blog. If you click on a link with one
> of the commonly used browsers (IE6 and Firefox), you get a download
> window -- not exactly a good user experience.
>
> With Roller 3.0, we're adding styled feeds. That means that, when you
> click on a feed URL with your browser, you'll see a nice friendly HTML
> page that tells you how to subscribe to the feed and lists the feed's
> latest entries -- see the attached image for an example.
>
> How it's done
>
> When a feed request comes in from a browser (we use user-agent and
> accepts headers to determine this), serve the feed with content type
> "text/html" so that the browser will load it. All feeds now include an
> XSL style-sheet that transforms the feed into the HTML you see in the
> browser. And by the way, with IE7, which has it's own built-in feed
> styler, the style-sheet is ignored.
>
> When a newsfeed reader accesses the same URL, it gets the feed XML
> (served with the right content-type application/atom+xml or
> application/rss+xml) and the stylesheet is ignored.
>
> The question
>
> The question is this: should styled-feeds be optional or always on
> and, if it's optional should styled feeds default to on or off?
>
> My opinion is that they should be optional and they should default to
> ON because good user experience should be the default.
>
> - Dave
