Re: [Feedreader-development] Development priorities

[Karsten H. <mai...@kh...>]

Kristjan Jansen wrote:

> I'd split the goals into 2 phases:
> 
> #1 Catch up with the competitiors:
> 
> - OPML feelist import/export

Nice to have but what is the use of this? To exchange feedlists with 
other programs? Exists a "standard" for exchanging feedlists? If so do 
you have a link? Can you implement this in Feedreader?

> - finding feeds from HTML pages usig
>   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/rss.xml" />

I'm not sure under when to use this? When a page is shown in the 
EmbeddedWB? And then extract all feeds out of this page?

> - support for RSS 2.0 + modules

Must! Do you have links for the RSS definitons?
Is Feedreader not compatible with RSS2.0?
Or can you implement this into Feedreader?

> - improve usability

I think its usable ;)
Where do you want to improve it? As i see it the main improvement at the 
moment is to localize Feedreader so the user can choose which language 
he wants to use. The code in cvs can now localize all labels, menuitems, 
actions, etc.  In cvs is a tranlsation template which holds all strings 
used in the actual state.


> - stability, stability, stability

For me it is pretty stable. I use it now for over six months and never 
had a problem (ok, except the mentioned bugs) nor crash. On the other 
hand i'm not pushing it. Nicole has 300 feeds in her setup so maybe she 
should talk about stability ;) .

> 
> #2 Future features
> 
> - Syndic8 XML-RPC API support (search, feedlists)

Don't know this. From the name i would call it something which is just 
supported by Syndic8. Does it make sense to implement something which is 
  just offered by one website?

> - genereric, XML parser-based namespace support (for RSS 1.0 and 2.0 and whatnot)
> - support for Atom syndication format

I can't comment on this. I know not enough about these things. Do you 
have a link where i can read up on this?

> - blog posting ?

Is this not possible with the current code?
I read somewhere in the forum that the people are doing this but have 
problems if they press 'z' which will maximize the EmbeddedWB window.
This problem is fixed in cvs.

> 
> The main competitive edge of the Feedreader shold be the "small, light, but does everything you need".
> No need to introduce bloat just for questionable features sake.

Ok ;)

Karsten

P.S.
Some questions might seem to be offensiv but they are not meant to be ;) .