tell Opera to use my default feed reader?

[NM Public]

I'm using Opera 9.50 Beta on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and I'd like to set
it up so that when I click on a feed icon (either in the Opera
address field or on a web page), it uses my default feed reader.
Mozilla-based browsers such as Camino, Firefox, and Flock can do
this. So can OmniWeb. Can Opera do this?

Thanks,
Nancy

[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

Op Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:56:15 +0100 schreef NM Public
<ago...@nm.deflexion.com>:

Opera can't do that for the feed icon in the address field I'm afraid.
Adding that functionality is on the list of useful things to add. Not
really a subject for the opera.beta newsgroup BTW.

For the feed links in the webpage, it is more or less possible, depending
on whether the feed gets send with a useful mime type. You can set Opera
to send application/rss+xml and application/atom+xml maybe also and
application/rdf+xml to an external application, See 'Preferences >
Advanced > Downloads'. Check the option 'Pass web address directly to
application', as you probably want to send the feed address, not the
current content.

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[NM Public]

Sur 2007-11-05, Rijk van Geijtenbeek e'crit:

> Op Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:56:15 +0100 schreef NM Public
>

>> I'm using Opera 9.50 Beta on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and I'd like to
>> set it up so that when I click on a feed icon (either in the
>> Opera address field or on a web page), it uses my default feed
>> reader. Mozilla-based browsers such as Camino, Firefox, and
>> Flock can do this. So can OmniWeb. Can Opera do this?
>
> Opera can't do that for the feed icon in the address field I'm
> afraid. Adding that functionality is on the list of useful
> things to add. Not really a subject for the opera.beta
> newsgroup BTW.

I'm happy to hear that it's on the list. I posted this question
in opera.beta because I was hoping it might be under
development/in testing, but in the future I'll post this kind of
question in opera.general.

> For the feed links in the webpage, it is more or less possible,
> depending on whether the feed gets send with a useful mime
> type. You can set Opera to send application/rss+xml and
> application/atom+xml maybe also and application/rdf+xml to an
> external application, See 'Preferences > Advanced > Downloads'.
> Check the option 'Pass web address directly to application', as
> you probably want to send the feed address, not the current
> content.

Thank you very much for this great tip. It's working for some
feed links, which is better than before. Here's what I discovered
while setting this up:

** You need to quit and restart Opera for these settings to take
effect **

It would be nice if Opera warned you about this.

I've set all these MIME types up with these file extensions:

atom,rdf,rss,xml

Can anyone think of any other file extension that is used for
feeds?

Thanks again,
Nancy

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