Dave Johnson wrote:
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.
That's fine. If you want to wait on those features then I'm okay with
that, but my last 2 points are still relevant.
1. The current files should be moved.
2. I like the idea of using a purely static xsl file rather than jsps, i
don't think these files need to be jsps.
-- Allen
- 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
