petea
Get Firefox Sync to sync state of RSS feeds
Firefox Sync currently syncs bookmarks between devices. This includes Sage feed folders (tested) but does not include their read/unread state or any cached items. If the state of the livemarks was visible to sync, this would provide a synchronised view of your RSS feed across any and all devices where you run Firefox.
This would not only be nice, it would also be a replacement for that RSS reader. If I understood how you're saving state at the moment I'd be up for writing a pull request.
Feed state is currently being stored in Places annotations, which it seems Firefox Sync isn't interested in syncing. I think we should be able to store state in some attribute of the bookmark that Firefox Sync does touch.
On 05/07/13 17:33, Peter Andrews wrote:
Feed state is currently being stored in Places annotations, which it seems Firefox Sync isn't interested in syncing. I think we should be able to store state in some attribute of the bookmark that Firefox Sync /does/ touch.
Looking at the Mozilla documents, Livemark and Folder objects don't have any attribute like "last_modified", although there's substantial support for defining your own sync objects.
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True. We should look into creating a custom sync engine to handle Sage metadata:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Firefox_Sync/JavaScript_Client_API http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/services/sync/modules/engines/bookmarks.js
and separately, preferences:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Firefox_Sync/Syncing_custom_preferences