Firefox and Mambo Templates - Cool FEature - Mambo

PhilTaylor (aka PrazGod) · October 8th, 2004, 12:09

In firefox there are some cool new features that allow people to subscribe to your RSS feed as a live bookmark.

For this to happen you need to add a line like the following in the head tag of your template:

HTML Code:

<LINK REL="alternate" TITLE="Mambo Product News" HREF="http://www.blueflameit.ltd.uk/index2.php?option=com_rss&no_html=1" TYPE="application/rss+xml">

Quote:

What are Live Bookmarks?

Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you -- saving you time.

A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/fire...bookmarks.html

*idigital* · October 8th, 2004, 12:15

One of the many reasons all mambers should "Get Firefox and take back the web!"

I've just been contacted about the fledgling Mambo Spread Firefox project by Rick Blanc of the Mozilla Virtual Expo, to display the projects works semi-officially, which is great for spread the word of Mambo to Firefox users as well.

No hard feelings amongst Mambo/Firefox devotees?

Cheers,

Damian

Flibble · October 8th, 2004, 14:31

*mumbles*Opera*grumble*

*idigital* · October 8th, 2004, 14:40

Opera? hehe, it just doesn't have the style of Firefox

Get Opera? Sounds like a promo for society entertainment

Cheers,

Damian

tonyskyday · October 8th, 2004, 16:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by BE-Mambo

Get Opera? Sounds like a promo for society entertainment

"Hey! What's so bad about society entertainment?" Shouts the conservatory graduate. "Oh, right, it doesn't pay very well..."

*idigital* · October 8th, 2004, 16:52

And thanks for the tip, Phil, I've added it to the Mambo Spread Firefox template.

Cheers,

Damian

Flibble · October 9th, 2004, 00:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by BE-Mambo

Opera? hehe, it just doesn't have the style of Firefox

Get Opera? Sounds like a promo for society entertainment

Cheers,

Damian

Ahh but I don't have the time or patience to sit wading through Firefox plugins when Opera does everything I want and more as soon as it's installed and generally always has done. Particulary the session management - I couldn't browse without it.

damn my loyalty.

pixelsoul · October 9th, 2004, 01:41

Yes I agree... Opera is the preferred browser for me to. The only disadvantage is with Flash.. no flash player 7

but the tab functions unleast work as they supposed to work, external links open in new tab.. links on same site open in same tab, and save the session so it always opens those tabs

Never could get Firefox configured like that

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flibble

Ahh but I don't have the time or patience to sit wading through Firefox plugins when Opera does everything I want and more as soon as it's installed and generally always has done. Particulary the session management - I couldn't browse without it.

damn my loyalty.

October 9th, 2004, 02:51

I used to be a hardcore Opera fan. It was, IMHO, the first viable alternative to IE/NS. But I feel it's gone down a fair bit since v7.x

I still love it for the emulation features such as "text only" and "lynx" etc.

But I do like Firefox better now. <shrug> You can't get away from running several browsers on your system anyway, not if you design web sites anyway

sydneytim · May 12th, 2005, 22:08

Hey there,

Phil talks about adding a line "in the head tag of your template"

...is that still necessary? Will we have to continue to do this in 4.5.3?

Thanks,

Tim

May 13th, 2005, 01:46

Yes, you do.

hazman · May 13th, 2005, 02:12

I'm a total FF user, I only use IE to test templates, I also have Opera which I find useless, I have NS the old ones, the new ones, I have IE 5.01, IE 5.5, IE6 but you can love/hate Opera, you can love/hate FF etc, etc, etc.

The fact is - IE is the Mountain King.

stingrey · May 15th, 2005, 12:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by sydneytim

Hey there,

Phil talks about adding a line "in the head tag of your template"

...is that still necessary? Will we have to continue to do this in 4.5.3?

Thanks,

Tim

Not if you utilise:
Components -> Syndicate
Live Bookmarks = On

If you do the tag is automatically added to the <head> area of your tempalte via the mosShowHead() function.

This was functionality introduced in 4.5.2.0

sydneytim · May 15th, 2005, 15:23

Thanks Rey!

Works a charm!

-Tim

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October 8th, 2004, 12:15	#2
idigital Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Queensland, Australia, Out in the sticks Posts: 707	One of the many reasons all mambers should "Get Firefox and take back the web!" I've just been contacted about the fledgling Mambo Spread Firefox project by Rick Blanc of the Mozilla Virtual Expo, to display the projects works semi-officially, which is great for spread the word of Mambo to Firefox users as well. No hard feelings amongst Mambo/Firefox devotees? Cheers, Damian

October 8th, 2004, 14:31	#3
Flibble Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 27	mumblesOperagrumble

October 8th, 2004, 14:40	#4
idigital Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Queensland, Australia, Out in the sticks Posts: 707	Opera? hehe, it just doesn't have the style of Firefox Get Opera? Sounds like a promo for society entertainment Cheers, Damian

October 8th, 2004, 16:52	#6
idigital Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Queensland, Australia, Out in the sticks Posts: 707	And thanks for the tip, Phil, I've added it to the Mambo Spread Firefox template. Cheers, Damian

October 9th, 2004, 02:51	#9
vavroom Posts: n/a	I used to be a hardcore Opera fan. It was, IMHO, the first viable alternative to IE/NS. But I feel it's gone down a fair bit since v7.x I still love it for the emulation features such as "text only" and "lynx" etc. But I do like Firefox better now. <shrug> You can't get away from running several browsers on your system anyway, not if you design web sites anyway

May 13th, 2005, 02:12	#12
hazman Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 6,212	I'm a total FF user, I only use IE to test templates, I also have Opera which I find useless, I have NS the old ones, the new ones, I have IE 5.01, IE 5.5, IE6 but you can love/hate Opera, you can love/hate FF etc, etc, etc. The fact is - IE is the Mountain King.