NetNewsWire Lite Change Notes
This page lists changes in NetNewsWire Lite since 1.0.3.
1.0.5: 7 October 2003
- Updated the Sites Drawer.
- Decreased (slightly) the time between selecting a headline and having its HTML description displayed.
1.0.5fc1: 2 October 2003
- Updated the Sites Drawer.
- Fixed a bug where contextual menus didn’t appear in the HTML description pane.
- Fixed a spot where the version number was incorrect.
1.0.5b1: 1 October 2003
- NetNewsWire Lite now uses Web Kit (the Safari HTML renderer) to display HTML in the description pane.
- You can use custom style sheets to specify how HTML should be displayed in the description pane. There’s an entire new preferences panel for HTML display.
- Uses the new HTTP downloading code that also came with Safari 1.0.
- Increased the HTTP timeout from 20 seconds to 60 seconds. This should make feed-reading failures less frequent.
- Supports gzip compression.
- SSL support: feeds with https URLs can now be read in the newsreader. (It works with feeds that have a valid, unexpired certificate. A tip on Mac OS X Hints shows how to tell your system to accept other certificates.)
- Permanent redirects cause a subscription’s URL to get updated.
- Before downloading any URL, NetNewsWire now checks to see whether it’s possible to reach the host before attempting the download.
- New preference allows you to prefer permalinks to external links.
- New preference allows you to specify whether or not updated items should always be marked as unread.
- Added support for body tags to the RSS parser. A body item—<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">—takes precedence over content:encoded and description items.
- Common HTML tags are stripped from titles (<i>, <b>, <a...>, etc.) while other tagged text is left alone. This is a compromise position. (The spec implies that HTML is not allowed in titles, but lots of feeds have HTML in their titles.)
- Some bugs in the RSS parser were fixed. The RSS parser is now more forgiving of character encoding errors.
- A new Keyboard Shortcuts command in the Help menu opens a window listing keyboard shortcuts.
- Exported subscriptions OPML files now specify an encoding (ISO-8859-1) and are in fact encoded that way. Previously they specified no encoding but were MacRoman-encoded.
- Fixed a bug where, when importing from some OPML subscriptions files, NetNewsWire would miss the RSS URLs. (This is with subscriptions files that don’t have a version attribute for each subscription.)
- The Validate this Feed command uses the new URL of the feed validator.
- Many crashing and hanging bugs, UI glitches, memory leaks, and CPU usage issues were fixed. Performance in general has been boosted.
