NetNewsWire 1.0.7 Change Notes
This page lists changes to the full version of NetNewsWire since 1.0.6.
(You can download NetNewsWire 1.0.7 from the NetNewsWire home page.)
1.0.7fc3: 19 December 2003
- Fixed a performance bug with very long titles in the Subscriptions pane. They're truncated.
1.0.7fc2: 19 December 2003
- Column widths in traditional and widescreen views should be a little more stable: the widths you set should stick better. (Except when switching between the two views, when columns do need to be resized.)
- Added a few sites to the Sites Drawer.
1.0.7fc1: 19 December 2003
- Fixed a bug where a just-downloaded favicon might not show up until you select the subscription.
- Icons and text in the Subscriptions pane line up a little better now. (At least when you're using Lucida Grande 11, the default [and the only choice in Lite].)
- Updated the help book.
1.0.7b7: 18 December 2003
- Fixed some general performance bugs and a mach port leak. Over time, NetNewsWire would use more memory and more of the CPU than it should.
- New Widescreen view is especially suited for laptop displays, which have wider proportions than desktop displays. More...
- NetNewsWire now displays favicons in the Subscriptions pane for sites that use them. More...
- NetNewsWire now responds to feed: URLs, which make it easier to subscribe to RSS feeds from within your web browser. More...
- Groups can now be nested—you can now create groups within groups, and groups within those groups, etc.
- NetNewsWire now remembers which groups were expanded between runs and expands them at startup. (Starting with the run *after* your next run.)
- You can change the fonts and font sizes for the Subscriptions and Headlines tables via the new Fonts preferences panel.
- The Next Refresh field in the upper-right corner of the newsreader window can now be toggled. Click on it to switch to showing the Last Refresh time. Click again to have it show Next Refresh. It remembers which you prefer between runs of the app.
- Fixed a bug with updating the dock icon when NetNewsWire is in the background and you open a URL from the dock menu.
- In the traditional and widescreen views, tabbing now cycles from Subscriptions to Headlines to HTML Description and back to Subscriptions. Previously it toggled between Subscriptions and Headlines.
- When you close the Sites Drawer, the window now expands if it had contracted when you opened the Sites Drawer. However, it doesn’t expand if you moved or resized the window after opening the Sites Drawer.
- RSS 2.0 authors are now displayed in the creator column. (You may not see them for some feeds until they update.)
- Fixed a date parsing bug—in RSS 1.0 feeds where the date is just YYYY-MM-DD, NetNewsWire wasn’t parsing the date. Now it is. An example is A List Apart’s feed: http://www.alistapart.com/articles.rdf (You won’t see the dates though until A List Apart next adds to its feed.)
- Fixed a character encoding bug with some feeds that have xhtml:body elements.
- Fixed a bug with reading username/password-protected feeds where the username or password contains %-encoded characters.
- Three new keyboard shortcuts: k marks all as read; j marks all as read and collapses all (in Combined View); e marks current item as read and collapses it (in Combined View). Note—these are single-letter shortcuts. No command key. The Keyboard Shortcuts window was updated to list the new shortcuts.
- Worked around bug in some Yahoo feeds where the rdf:about is always the same and isn’t a permalink.
- Feed images are now saved on disk rather than stored in memory and re-downloaded every time you launch NetNewsWire. (Note: this is also true of favicons; by feed images we mean the images that are specified in RSS feeds and that show up at the bottom of the Info window in NetNewsWire.)
- The various font labels in the preferences window have been improved. (Text is centered, they’re not selectable.)
- In the prefs window, the current icon in the toolbar is selected if you’re running Panther.
- If you resize the newsreader window by clicking the green blob at the upper-left of the window, the Combined View is now updated.
- The HTML description pane in the traditional view now has a focus ring when it has focus. (As long as focus rings are enabled in the prefs.) This feature had been lost with the switch to Web Kit; now it’s back.
- Background color of subscriptions pane now updates dynamically as you’re choosing a color on the Colors prefs panel.
- Increased the maximum width and height of the newsreader window from 1200 to 2000.
- Fixed a bug with clicking on URLs that begin with http://x (they didn’t work; now they do).
- Subscription names are now truncated with ellipses when there’s not enough space to display the entire name. (Works on Panther only, though.)
- On Panther, text in headlines pane is now truncated with ellipses when necessary.
- Columns in the headline view are automatically resized when changing between different newsreader views, so you don’t get disappearing columns.
- The startup message in the headlines pane now says “Reading news from disk...” so it’s more clear what’s going on.
- The Bandwidth Stats window now doesn’t update itself if you’ve closed it. (A small performance boost for if you’ve opened then closed that window.) (It never updates itself if you haven’t opened it.)
- The progress indicator at the bottom left of the newsreader window is indeterminate now (barber-pole style) which is a bit smoother than the old way which jumped around.
- Changing the password for a weblog in the weblog editor now sticks in the keychain.
- The Subscribe sheet is now always empty of text when it opens.
- Split view restoring now checks for small and negative numbers. Fixes a bug where if you run 1.0.7, then 1.0.6, then back to 1.0.7 the subscriptions pane might disappear.
- Updated the Sites Drawer. See the Latest Additions group for what’s new in 1.0.7.
- Fixed bug with unsubscribe-from-dock-menu command—the main window opens and comes to the front now (in case it wasn’t already open).
- Fixed bug where, in the subscriptions pane contextual menu, two separators in a row could appear.
- Fixed resize issue with the Bandwidth Stats window.
- Removed the dark gray line from near the bottom of the newsreader window.
