Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread gdkags
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 5:56:05 PM UTC+1, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > Just to be 100% clear, not all of those 750 bugs are open! I was just > commenting on overall trends, ie when/where do people file bugs. Still, even if they were not actively taken care of or just filed out of hatred;

Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:26 AM, wrote: > > PS: I'm sorry if this post violates any posting guidelines, I'm not > accustomed to newsgroups. > It doesn't violate guidelines. In fact, your post was a very model of a good post: polite, friendly, and informed. Posts from users who

Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 14/03/2018 14:28, gdk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 12:03:19 PM UTC+1, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: Unfortunately, our web feed implementation is pretty unused. This, tied together with approximately 750-odd bugs would be enough reason for me to drop the component

Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 14/03/2018 14:16, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 3/14/18 7:03 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: Unfortunately, our web feed implementation is pretty unused. Not least because it's not discoverable, ever since we removed the "there is a feed link on this page" icon, right? The toolbar button still

Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread gdkags
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 12:03:19 PM UTC+1, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > Unfortunately, our web feed implementation is pretty unused. This, tied together with > approximately 750-odd bugs would be enough reason for me to drop the component all-together. Helps focus on more important work,

Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 3/14/18 7:03 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: Unfortunately, our web feed implementation is pretty unused. Not least because it's not discoverable, ever since we removed the "there is a feed link on this page" icon, right? (I don't disagree with any of what you said; I just think that the feed

Re: Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-14 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 13/03/2018 15:26, gdk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello dear Firefox development community! As a fond user of the "subscribe to this page" button I sadly acknowledge to see the deprecation of navigator.registerContentHandler(). I'm not here to grouse about it, but rather inquire about any plans to

Web-Feed subscription improvements

2018-03-13 Thread gdkags
Hello dear Firefox development community! As a fond user of the "subscribe to this page" button I sadly acknowledge to see the deprecation of navigator.registerContentHandler(). I'm not here to grouse about it, but rather inquire about any plans to have a user-friendly possibility for adding