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Thursday, June 08, 2006

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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Dave's release of the NewsRiver module has gotten me using the OPML Editor again. As a former Radio user, I did enjoy the River of News style of aggregator, at least for some things. I'm a happy FeedDemon user these days, which uses the three-pane approach, but I'm starting to see it might make sense to use both. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I only have a few issues with the OPML Editor/NewsRiver at this point: Permanent link to this item in the archive.

  • Not all character encoding is correctly preserved. I notice that this has already been reported, although I don't see that Dave has acknowledged it anywhere.

  • The menu item to display the subscription list (Tools / NewsRiver / View subscriptions...) has a bug where the URL it opens in my browser (http://127.0.0.1:5337/newsRiver/subscription) is missing the letter 's' at the end. I see that this bug has been reported as well.

  • I'd like a way to customize the new display, such as by attaching a CSS stylesheet. I don't want to do very much as this point, just eliminate horizontal scrolling, which makes it harder for me to read.

  • A bug I can't reproduce: I used Community / Your OPML Weblog / Blog name/copyright... to edit my copyright, and when I clicked the OK button, the OPML Editor application crashed.

One of the reasons I stopped using Radio was because it was written in a proprietary language that was used in only two products (Frontier and Radio), which limited the size of its community of users. The fact that the OPML Editor has been released under GPL goes a long way toward making it more attractive as an application environment. It's still quirky, but perhaps that's part of its charm. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I should mention that I had no difficulty importing my entire set of FeedDemon subscriptions (as OPML) into NewsRiver, even though the OPML contained subfolders. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Also, it may be relevant that the OPML file was produced by the latest beta version of FeedDemon (1.6.0.2 Beta 2). Permanent link to this item in the archive.

One wrinkle: this file contains nine different sub-lists of RSS subscriptions, one for each folder in my FeedDemon setup. They are rendered fine in the OPML editor, except that the title for each sub-list is not rendered. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Aha! I removed the BOM, and now it opens properly in the OPML editor. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I'm trying to edit an OPML file exported from FeedDemon, but it's not working very well. Could it be the Byte Order Mark at the beginning of the file? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

testing, testing, uno dos tres... Permanent link to this item in the archive.

  

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