RSS Bandit addresses the fact that participating in RSS feeds is not necessarily a passive activity, but one in which the user may participate. For feeds that support the CommentAPI, RSS Bandit provides the ability to post a comment to an item.
Right clicking an item in the Headlines section brings up the following context menu (see Figure 1). In this case, the feed does not support the CommentAPI and thus the first item in the context menu, "Post Reply", is grayed out.
Figure 1. Feed
Items Context Menu.
For feeds that do support the CommentAPI, selecting "Post Reply" brings up the following dialog (see figure 2).
Figure 2. Post
Reply Dialog.
User Identity
The user identity
area allows you to select an identity to use when posting your comment.
The identity you select determines the personal information that will
be sent. This information is displayed on the dialog. Clicking on the
"Identities..." button brings up the Manage Identities dialog
(see Managing Your Identities).
Reply
The reply section provides
fields for entering the title and body of a reply. If the site accepts
HTML markup, select the checkbox with the label "Send Newlines as
<br/>" to automatically replace new lines with the <br/>
tag.
Clicking the "Submit" button will then post your comment to the feed s and store a copy in the "Sent Items" special feed on RSS Bandit. If a feed has comments, a little box with a plus sign next to it is displayed. Clicking on the plus will display the list of comments posted to the feed item.
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