Closed DisableGraphics closed 2 years ago
hkalexling
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2 years ago Interesting idea. I've never seen RSS feeds used like this. I am not very familiar with RSS standard, but is it possible to group multiple images into a chapter? Each entry in XKCD is just a single image so it's easy to pack it into RSS (https://xkcd.com/rss.xml), but I am not sure how feasible it is for more structural data where we have multiple images in a chapter and multiple chapters in a collection, etc.
DisableGraphics
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2 years ago To be honest, I'm not really an expert on RSS too. Well... taking into consideration that XKCD uses an <img src> tag in the RSS feed, probably it could be the same with mango, although with more than just one tag.
Edit: I've loaded the feed into GFeeds and all the images (It seems there's not only one image in the page) have loaded correctly, so this should probably be feasible
DisableGraphics
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2 years ago Screenshot for clarification
In the bottom there are more images
hkalexling
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2 years ago Hmm from the screenshot I am pretty sure your RSS reader just opens the URL in the <link> tag and renders the HTML like what a browser does. If that's what you are looking for why not use Mango from your browser?
DisableGraphics
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2 years ago I'm closing this issue since I've realized my confusion
OPDS is a great protocol to use, but there's little support for it. For example, as far as I know, in Linux there are only two OPDS readers (Thorium reader and Lucidor) and only Lucidor works with Mango (And its controls are weird). Also, most OPDS readers I've found for other platforms only support books, not comics/manga.
RSS is much more supported (A search query for "RSS reader" in my package manager yields more than 20 results) and OPDS is based on RSS. Moreover, RSS supports images, as seen in the RSS feed for XKCD.