NetNewsWire 1.0.5 Change Notes
This page lists changes to the full version of NetNewsWire since 1.0.4.
The main thing for 1.0.5 is bug fixes. There’s just one new feature, the ability to prefer permalinks to external links.
(You can download NetNewsWire from the NetNewsWire home page.)
1.0.5: 22 September 2003
- Fixed a bug in the weblog editor where some special characters would not get encoded into entities properly.
- Fixed a crashing bug when importing a second OPML subscriptions file.
1.0.5fc1: 18 September 2003
- Updated the Help book to reference the new pref for preferring permalinks over external links.
- Added some sites to the Sites Drawer and updated the URLs for a couple sites. See the Latest Additions group to see what sites have been added.
1.0.5b2: 16 September 2003
- Fixed a user interface display delay when marking all as read or unread. Now the Subscriptions pane and the Dock icon update right away.
- Fixed a bug with encoding left-double-quotes. (It was a typo in the entities table.) You'd end up with ldqu;; instead of the correct entity.
- Worked around a bug in feeds that have non-unique guids. I hope.
- Fixed a character-encoding bug that messed up the tooltip for the Colors toolbar item in the Preferences window.
1.0.5b1: 13 September 2003
- Permalinks are now preferred to external links when doing an open-in-browser. It’s a pref you can set—see the General prefs panel. Note that not all feeds provide permalinks. An easy way to test this: select a headline in the ranchero.com feed, and toggle the pref. Note how the URL at the bottom of the main window changes between a permalink and an external link.
- Nuked the window transparency pref to make room for the new permalinks pref.
- Now using version 0.2 of Aaron Swartz’s htmlDiff script (the script that shows editing changes). More about the script, including change notes: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/diff/
- Fixed a crashing bug with the HTML diff feature and long (>32K) descriptions. For now it skips doing a diff for these long descriptions, which is better than crashing.
- Fixed a weblog editor bug that could cause Radio to emit empty <link> items in Radio-generated RSS feeds—NetNewsWire’s weblog editor would send an empty link for a new post instead of sending no link.
- Fixed a crashing bug that sometimes happened after deleting a subscription.
- Don’t share cookies with Safari anymore—this fixes a couple crashes and fixes some hangs. Unfortunately, it also means that you can’t read RSS feeds from Editor’s-only Manila sites.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the entity ’ from being decoded in titles. (It was a typo in the entities table.) For already-cached items the fix won’t apply, but for new items it will.
- Fixed a hanging bug when dragging a URL icon from the Notepad onto the Subscriptions pane.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes “Untitled Source” subscriptions would never pick up their names.
- Fixed a bug in the traditional view where, if you deselected all subscriptions, the most recent description would still appear in the HTML pane.
- Fixed a bug where synthetic titles—titles that are pulled out a description—they would sometimes have HTML in them. Example feed: http://radio.weblogs.com/0107946/rss.xml
- Fixed a bug with titles with doubly-escaped carets. Those carets are now just unescaped once, not twice.
- Removed a space/separator from the end of the contextual menu that appears for groups in the Subscriptions pane.
- 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 extraneous characters in the low-on-disk-space dialog.
- 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.)
- Fixed a bug that prevented Ed Foster’s feed from being read. http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/rss.xml
- Tweaked the download throttling code so it’s not so poky when you have it set to Better Behaved (which is the default).
- Fixed a bug where a feed that doesn’t specify the character encoding would be treated as iso-8859 instead of utf-8.
- 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.)
- When creating Blosxom filenames, NetNewsWire now translates ; to _.
- The Subscribe command in the Dock menu works again.
- Fixed some display updating glitches when renaming subscriptions and groups.
- The Validate this Feed command uses the new URL of the feed validator.
- Made the RSS parser slightly more forgiving of character encoding issues.
