Comments on: [Lazyweb] Viewing AtomPub services documents in Firefox

By: Dan Diephouse

Dan Diephouse — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:02:59 +0000

Yeah, I’m not seeing a way to do this short of developing a plugin. *sigh*

By: Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:07:47 +0000

The server could add a “Content-Disposition: inline” header. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt I don’t know how well browsers obey that, but I believe it is the right thing for the server to do if you want.

By: Richie

Richie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:28:04 +0000

Are you looking for something like this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.contentHandlers.types.*.uri

using chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties as uri should display the feed in your browser window.

I’m very new to AtomPub and don’t know any free to use app-service, that’s why I actually couldn’t try out if it works.

By: John O'Shea

John O'Shea — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:04:47 +0000

Hey Dan,
Seems you might have to hack the mimeTypes.rdf file in your Firefox install – http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_Mozilla_determines_MIME_Types
Also, http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/010116.html hints that they have hooks for plugins to sniff content when a document is loading (if you feel like developing a plugin
I agree though, it’d be nice if Firefox rendered the service doc in way that allows the user to easily navigate(subscribe to) to the collection URLs (and possibly any category document URLs), something like how they currently present feeds…

John.