Adding support for offline feed readers through feed protocol.

[Zegnat]

Like Brian Reiter’s change from 2010, I’ll let him explain it:

Google has an extension for Chrome that almost does what I want. It discovers the feeds but it will only subscribe them with a web-based feed reader. What I did was hack on the RSS Subscriptions Extension (by Google) so that it would work with Outlook.

His “hack” was to let the extension, when you click subscribe, open a feed URL rather than an http one. That is:

url = url.replace( "%g", feedUrl.replace( /^http:/i, "feed:" ) );

E.g.:

https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss/commits/master.atom → feed://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss/commits/master.atom

The reviews on the Chrome Web Store for his packaged version have people thanking him and confirming this trick to work with:

• Outlook (assumably Windows)
• Vienna (Mac OS X)
• Akregator (Linux)
• FeedReader (Windows)
• NetNewsWire (Mac OS X)
• RSSOwl (Linux)

I can’t confirm if any of these still work, but it might be worth implementing this.