inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘NetNewsWire 3.0d7: Super Early Sneak Peak’
August 6th, 2006 by edtechlab
If you use NetNewsReader, you can download the development version 3 now. This will be a free upgrade for NetNewsReader users. Brent is already getting comments on his post.
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inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘NetNewsWire 3.0d7: Super Early Sneak Peak’
You can download it here. (But I warn you with big red letters that it’s a work in progress, and you shouldn’t try it out if you’re not comfortable with it.)
The big new thing—the thing I’m personally excited about—is the brand-new, totally rewritten Combined View.
The old Combined View (like a newspaper or river-of-news view, for those who don’t know) had some performance issues because every single news item was a separate webview. If you had 100 items, that was like 100 mini-web-pages.
The new version uses just one webview—but, even though it’s a single web page, you can still navigate with the space bar and arrow keys, you can still expand and collapse. It still has the concept of a selected item.
(Or you can just scroll and point-and-click. It works with both styles of reading.)
Here’s a screen shot of the new Combined View. Here’s another screen shot