[Sage] Sage 1.4 development status

[Peter Andrews]

Sage Community,

I want to take a moment to summarize our progress toward a Sage 1.4  
release so that you're aware of what has already been accomplished  
and what areas still need our attention.  Sitting in our CVS  
repository at the moment is about 80% of the work needed to create  
the beta release.  We've made big progress toward providing more  
robust feed parsing and creating a more integrated rendering pipeline  
to deliver formatted feed data to users more conveniently.

* Feed Parsing

- [DONE]  A re-architected XPCOM based feed parsing framework.   
Composed of a number of independent supporting components with  
clearly defined interfaces.  Extendable and consumable by other  
extensions.

- [DONE]  Proper handling of namespaces in feeds http://mozdev.org/ 
bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9100

- [DONE]  Support for enclosures http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi? 
id=7375

- [DONE]  Extract additional feed metadata http://mozdev.org/bugs/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=6772 http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11004  
http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7674

- [TODO]  Full xml:base support http://www.mozdev.org/bugs/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=12582

- [TODO]  Handle non-default namespaces in Atom XHTML content http:// 
www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=13329


* Feed Rendering

- [DONE]  Eliminate tab grabbing behavior when viewing feeds http:// 
mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6916

- [DONE]  HTML cleansing to remove inappropriate styling and JavaScript

- [TODO]  Custom protocol handler http://www.mozdev.org/bugs/ 
show_bug.cgi?id=13327

- [TODO]  Define custom style package format http://www.mozdev.org/ 
bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=13328


* Miscellaneous

- [TODO]  Have all feed subscriptions maintained as Live Bookmarks  
http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8050

- [TODO]  Maintain feed channel URL for OPML export http://mozdev.org/ 
bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8050


Feel free to direct feature-specific feedback to the individual bug  
reports.

peter