[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 34797] New: feed:// support for syndicated content in HTML pages

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34797

           Summary: feed:// support for syndicated content in HTML pages
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh Intel
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.6
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Layout and Rendering
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: alex at sirensclef.com


I'm a developer experimenting with new features of a parsing library that's
used in our commercial CMS. The library currently uses content and source
sniffing to determine the format of the data returned by an url that is fed in.

Recently I have played with the idea of parsing a regular HTML page as
syndicated content. This is possible because the HTML 5 spec provides a way to
embed syndicated content in your pages via the new article, time, and header
tags. Therefore I am now able to pass in the url to an HTML page containing
syndicated articles and display the result exactly as I would an RSS feed.

I am not sure if this is in the spirit of the HTML 5 spec, or if the WebKit
team finds this useful, but I was thinking it might be interesting to support
this natively in WebKit via the "feed://" protocol. In this case, given the URL
to an HTML document instead of an RSS document, you'd parse out any syndicated
content and display it in the manner you do with RSS feeds.

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