In Firefox, RSS Feeds using Full Text displays as Excerpt

[r-a-y]

Wasn't sure to either file this as a "bug" or an "enhancement", but anyway this "bughancement" was originally pointed out by Rahul:
​http://www.devilsworkshop.org/force-firefox-to-display-your-full-feeds-wordpress-hack/

In wp-includes/feed-rss2.php,

<?php if (get_option('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description>
<?php else : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description>

The "else" statement should not be the_excerpt_rss(), it should be the_content_rss().

The same thing would have to be modified for the other feed items.

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I know <description> should be ideally used as an excerpt, but the main problem is Firefox uses the <description> attribute instead of <content:encoded> to view RSS feeds with Full Text.

Since we already do a check for using rss_use_excerpt(), couldn't we just make the <description> full text anyway?

What do you guys think?

[r-a-y]

The other possibility is removing the <description> element when Full Text feeds are in use.

[ryan]

This comes up often and we've always left it as-is since description is properly a synopsis.

[scribu]

You shouldn't be using Firefox as a feed reader anyway.