Move favicons in the detail view to the right side. They’re shown when there’s no user avatar or feed icon.

Fix avatar alignment in the detail view.

Freeze the user agent as Evergreen (macOS; RSS Reader; https://ranchero.com/evergreen/). (An iOS version would say iOS rather than macOS, but would be the same otherwise.)

Feed icons and user avatars now go at the top right. (Except for favicons, which are still on the left. They should probably go to the right too.)

The system gets feed icons from web page metadata now, when not specified in the feed.

Timeline view

Show the feed name when in a timeline that could show multiple feeds — such as when a folder is selected in the sidebar.

Misc.

Fixed a bug where favicons in the default location for a feed — /favicon.ico — wouldn’t get found.

Make User-Agent of the form Evergreen/1.0d28 (Macintosh; RSS Reader; ranchero.com/evergreen/)

Fix bug decoding ' entities.

Use Flying Meat’s JSON Feed in the feed directory.

Now shows feed and user avatars in the detail view, when they’re available in the feed. (Requires JSON Feed feeds, at least for now.)

This meant making layout changes to the detail view. Feedback is, of course, very much welcome.

(The code for building the detail view’s HTML is currently a total mess while we’re experimenting. Don’t look at it. Consider yourself warned.)

The link display now appears only during mouseover. Works much like Safari.

There is no persistent display of the current permalink. We’ll see if we miss it or not.

Icons

Using a generic icon for feeds that don’t have a favicon. This icon may change.

Misc.

Futzed around with the Feed Directory UI.

This new command marks as read everything in the current timeline that’s older than the selected article.

This command is also available as a keyboard shortcut: the o key. (Lowercase Oh, not zero.)

Share toolbar button

It works, sort-of. Has issues. But you can share things. Sort-of-ish.

Misc.

Fixed an infinite loop that could happen when going to next unread.

The main sidebar and the sidebar in the Feed Directory now use standard folder icons for folders.

Fixed OPML export bug — the OPML is now valid.

Fixed bug sizing the Keyboard Shortcuts window on a small screen.

Made Mark as Starred command not doing anything (for now) — it was doing the wrong thing.

Move Keyboard Shortcuts menu item to the Help menu.

Use semantic markup in the Keyboard Shortcuts HTML. Courtesy of ePirat.

Return to the normal app icon. Until next year.

Validate unread counts on fetching articles without having to hit the database for the validation.

Restore window size/position and splitview position in the Feeds Directory window between runs.

More info

You can always look at the recent commits on GitHub for more details.

And you can look at the current milestone to see what remains to be done.

I fixed a couple bugs with how article database IDs are created. This will cause re-runs. Sorry about that! I am trying to avoid things like this, but it could happen again before we get to 1.0 alpha.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Open Window > Keyboard Shortcuts to see the list of keyboard shortcuts (shortcuts not otherwise in the menubar).

The keyboard shortcuts listed all work — when either the sidebar or timeline has focus. (They don’t work yet when the detail view has focus.)

First Run

Position and size the main window more nicely.

Edited the default feeds list slightly.

Fixed bug where On My Mac group item title would be blank on first run.

Parsers

Parse authors and attachments in Atom feeds.

Add support for multiple authors in Atom and RSS.

In RSS feeds, detect when an author is really a URL or a name as opposed to an email address.

Misc.

Added link to Technotes in the Help menu. It goes to the Technotes index page in the GitHub repository.

Refresh-all on startup (unless running a debug build).

More info

You can always look at the recent commits on GitHub for more details.

Instead of an old-fashioned status bar — an app “chin” — the gear menu and refresh status appear at the bottom of the sidebar, and the current article‘s URL (or mouseover URL) appears at the bottom of the detail view.

Feedback is welcome on this change. It might need reversing or refining. Or it might be fine as-is. Let me know what you think.

Performance

The time between clicking on a feed — or especially a folder — and when the articles appear in the timeline view has been drastically reduced. This was due to a number of changes. (Thanks to Instruments!)

OPML importing was slow — now it’s borderline instantaneous, even with thousands of feeds.

HTML metadata parsing is now cached and performed on a background thread.

Misc.

Detect and parse RSS feeds that lack an opening rss tag. (See https://www.natashatherobot.com/feed/ as an example.)

When the home page of a feed isn’t known yet, base the favicon on the feed URL.

Fix a memory leak that happened every time you added a feed.

Removed signs of some features that won’t appear until 2.0. (I’ve been doing some punting. It hurts, but that’s how I know I’m doing it right.)

Increased spacing in sidebar from small to medium.

The smart feeds now appear in a Smart Feeds group in the sidebar.

More info

You can always look at the recent commits on GitHub for more details.

Fetch unread counts from database at startup.

Make resizing the timeline view marginally faster.

Make the favicon downloading system use a little less memory.

Read a newly-added feed immediately, instead of waiting for the next refresh-all.

Use 38-pt-wide toolbar icons, a la Mail.

Parse RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds. Pinboard uses these (I couldn’t find them anywhere else).

Make the window title-less. You can bring back the title using a hidden pref.

Save feed authors.

Save article authors.

Use updated @2x next-unread icon from Brad.

Fix bug detecting feed type for Dr. Drang’s JSON Feed.

Fix bug detecting Macworld’s RSS feed as an RSS feed. The feed doesn’t start with the standard XML header.

Set user-agent on the detail view’s webview.

The Feed Directory sidebar also shows favicons.

Note: obvious missing thing is a default image for when there is no favicon. See https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen/issues/208. ]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:50:00 -0800 10.13 Resuming distribution via Sparkle.