NetNewsWire 1.0.4 Change Notes
This page lists changes to the full version of NetNewsWire in 1.0.4.
1.0.4fc1: 23 August 2003
- When showing HTML differences, the inserted text is no longer underlined, so it’s not mistaken for a link. (It’s still green.)
- Turned off tooltips for headlines in the Combined View, since they were more annoying than useful. We’ll reconsider this issue in 1.1.
- Updated the Help book.
1.0.4b3: 21 August 2003
- Web Kit—the Safari HTML renderer—is now used to render HTML. This fixes a ton of rendering bugs.
- There is a new HTML preferences panel for setting fonts and so on for HTML display. You can also use a custom style sheet (as in Safari).
- Feeds are downloaded using the new HTTP networking code that Safari uses.
- Updated items: you can now choose to have them marked as unread via the General preferences panel.
- You can also turn on showing differences in updated items via the General preferences panel. When this is turned on, you see the differences in updated items: deleted text is struck through and red, inserted text is green. This feature comes thanks to Aaron Swartz’s htmlDiff Python script.
- Lots of work was done on performance: the news reader is faster in general. Some parts of the core, particularly the code for groups and the new-headlines subscription, were re-architected to make them much more efficient.
- Delete Read Items is a new command that works in groups and in the new-headlines subscription. Keyboard shortcut: d (just the letter).
- Arrival dates are displayed for subscriptions that don’t include dates. Arrival dates are in parentheses, to distinguish them from dates the feed specifies.
- Added a Keyboard Shortcuts command to the Help menu. It opens a window that lists keyboard shortcuts that are otherwise hidden. (Things like using the space bar to go to the next unread.)
- Syntax coloring in the weblog editor is better: a bug was fixed where sometimes text was colored that shouldn’t be colored.
- Added TypePad as a weblog publishing system choice.
- Various little tweaks to RSS discovery make it work better with some not-quite-standard cases.
- 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.
- Gzip compression is now supported. The Bandwidth Stats window has a new column that shows the number of gzipped responses. (The idea behind gzip compression is that it saves bandwidth.)
- 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 (via the SCNetwork reachability API). This way if you’re off-line it won’t try to download things it can’t possibly download.
- Updated the Sites Drawer. See the Latest Additions section to see what’s new. New categories include Cooking/Food (thanks to Robert Daeley), Jobs, and Politics. Added Lockergnome RSS Resources and VersionTracker’s OS X feed to the defaults for new users.
