Feature request: open in sidebar

[marczellm]

As a user, I would like to see the list of Feedly articles in a Firefox sidebar and open the full articles (on their website) in new tabs from there. (My current flow is: split the screen, snap FF to the right and a separate feedreader app to the left.)

Would this be possible? I can work on the implementation too and then pull request.

[olsh]

Hi @marczellm,

Sounds like a great idea, I would very appreciate if you submit a PR.
Are you talking about the API?

[marczellm]

Yes. I don’t know though if it would cause compatibility issues with other browsers or if those would just ignore it

[olsh]

It seems like the API is not supported in Chrome, so we should use preprocessing like this

[marczellm]

I started a fork: https://github.com/marczellm/Feedly-Notifier/tree/feature/firefox-sidebar
Most things seems to work smoothly because popup UI and sidebar UI is equivalent in how it works in Firefox.

The main issue is that while popup width is set by the extension, sidebar width is user resizable. Opening the summary of an article makes the UI wider than the max possible sidebar width. For sidebar, the UI should be made width-responsive. Unfortunately I have very little experience with CSS.

[olsh]

Thanks, I can try to help with this when I have some time, but probably this won't happen soon.

[marczellm]

Quoting https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/user_interface/Popups:

If the user moves the extension's button to the menu or it appears in the toolbar overflow, then the popup appears inside the menu's panel and is given a fixed width.

This means it looks like this:

There is no way to scroll to the right hand side buttons.

Don't you think that it would be better if the entire UI would resize instead of having a fixed width? I tested and it would only require removing explicitly set widths in popup.js. Would that cause problems in other browsers?