Firefox Magazine: Atomic, The Atom Protocol Client for Firefox : Mobile Edition

Published on 2006-09-18 09:47:52

Atomic is an Atom protocol client for creating and manipulating Atom feeds. It can communicate with any number of different Atom protocol servers that support introspection. The plugin is a sidebar, you can view it from View->Sidebar->Atomic. At the very first startup (opening of the sidebar), it should prompt you for preferences and have you pick a file for the service list. The default is inside the extension's directory in your mozilla folder.

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To do anything useful, you need to have access to an Atom Protocol server. That may be the hardest one as the protocol is still a draft RFC. You can setup your own Atom protocol server using the eXist XML database. Click on the right most icon button in the sidebar to add a service. You'll need the service introspection URL for this. Once the service appears, you can double-click on the service in the list of services in the sidebar to get a list of collections.

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