Podlove Subscribe Button support

[timpritlove]

The Podlove Subscribe Button is a new universal, web-based podcast subscription button that should make it much, much easier to go through the sometimes very tedious process of subscribing to a podcast with the podcast client of your choice.

The basic idea is to present a simple button that scans the HTTP request for your OS and then present a list of possible client apps. If the user taps one of the clients, a client-specific (or for Android and Windows Phone 8: OS-specific) URI-scheme is chosen to activate the proper app and make it go to the subscription dialog.

You can test the current development version of it here:

http://docs.podlove.org/podlove-subscribe-button/

There is a longer description on the technical details and requirements for Podcast Clients on our main site:

http://podlove.org/podlove-subscribe-button/

Regarding Miro, we know that Miro already registers URI schemes for "democracy" and "miro", but both can't be used to subscribe to a podcast feed in the same way as "itpc" oder "pcast" work with iTunes. Not sure what these two are used for, but it's not helpful to us as it stands.

If you could change the behaviour of one of these URI schemes or add a new one (e.g. "miro-subscribe:") Miro could be added to the list of Apps in the Podlove Subscribe Button and also get a link to the Miro home page so people can install it seamlessly if they have not yet done so.