NetNewsWire Lite Change Notes
This page lists recent changes to NetNewsWire Lite.
1.0.3b2: 18 February 2003
Note: this release incorporates lots of bug fixes and some new features from the full version of NetNewsWire. That’s why there are so many changes for this release.
- Fixed a crashing bug when updating the unread count of a subscription.
- A Subscribe command was added to the Dock menu.
- NetNewsWire now doesn’t send a referer when reading feeds. (Per HTTP spec.) The URL (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) was added to the User-Agent string.
- Fix for at least one instance where unread counts go awry: when you have a headline that exists in more than one feed, that is the exact same except for the feed it appears in, it now puts both in the group and new headlines feeds. Then the counts match up. This problem was reported most often with people subscribing to more than one BBC news feed.
- A sanity check was added to the code that remembers the various split views in the news reader window. This sanity check should prevent situations where one of the panes disappears and can’t be fixed by restarting NetNewsWire.
- Fixed an OPML subscriptions importing bug (reported by Jeremy Zawodny).
- A bunch of new sites were added to the Sites Drawer. Also changed the list of default subscriptions for new users.
- New feature: the contextual menu for headlines now includes an Open Comments in Browser command. Most sites don’t support this yet, but some do. (This feature gets the comments element in RSS 2.0 feeds.)
- Up and down arrow navigation is smoother now for subscriptions with a bunch of unread headlines.
- Relative URLs in the description view are now expanded relative to the home page of the site. (Which means you can click on them and they will open in your browser.)
- If you double-click in the Source column of the headlines pane, then your browser will open the home page for that source.
- Dock icon badge now uses Lucida Grande instead of Arial since not everyone has Arial.
- Fixed a bug (probably in the HTML renderer) that was exposed with CNET News.com’s feed where you couldn’t click on a link in the HTML pane and have it open in the browser.
- Fixed a bug where RSS auto-discovery didn’t usually work when a site’s link element uses a relative URL to point to a feed. (An example is Hack the Planet, to which you can now subscribe by using the URL of its home page.)
- Most sheets can now be cancelled by pressing ESC.
- If the description HTML pane has focus, hitting the Tab key will move focus to the Subscriptions page.
- A couple small memory leaks fixed.
- At startup, the top item in the Subscriptions pane is now selected and has focus. (This way you can do keyboard navigation without first having to click the mouse to get focus.)
- Handle a Radio quirk—descriptions in Radio-generated feeds often have blank lines instead of paragraph tags. NetNewsWire now adds paragraph tags (just internally, for display purposes). So, for instance, Bill Bumgarner’s feed will display much better in the HTML description pane. Previously each post would just all run together in one big paragraph.
- Fixed an RSS parsing bug that prevented the following feed from working (now it works): http://www.pocketsoap.com/services/pingback.aspx?flav=rss
1.0.3b1
- Not widely released.
