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The fix used for iOS (keep a queue of preloaded web views) isn't appropriate
for macOS since the first view is used immediately. That approach would
solve the flash of white when first searching, but not the flash of white
when launching the application.
Instead, use a modification of the original solution used for iOS:
- wrap the web view in a box with an appropriate background color
- hide the web view at creation
- show the web view after* the first load
This doesn't suffer the latency problem that the same solution on iOS had
because the first load is always local, "No Selection" HTML.
[*] Showing the view immediately after the first load still causes the flash
to white. Waiting 0.05 seconds avoids this. That's a fairly terrible hack,
but I don't have a better solution at present.
NetNewsWire
It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
It’s not in beta yet. Not even alpha! While NetNewsWire 5.0 is feature-complete as of May 25, 2019, it has known bugs — and, surely, plenty of unknown bugs.
It supports RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RSS-in-JSON formats.
More info: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
Also see the Technotes and the Roadmap.
Note: NetNewsWire’s Help menu has a bunch of these links, so you don’t have to remember to come back to this page.
Community
Join the Slack group to talk with other NetNewsWire users — and to help out, if you’d like to, by testing, coding, writing, providing feedback, or just helping us think things through. Everybody is welcome and encouraged to join.
On accepting pull requests
It’s pretty early still, and we have strong opinions about how we want to do things, so we’re not seeking help just yet.
That said, we will seriously consider any pull requests we do get. Just note that we may not accept them, or we may accept them and do a bunch of revision.
It’s probably a good idea to let us know first what you’d like to do. The best place for that is definitely the Slack group.
We do plan to add more and more contributors over time. Totally. But we’re taking it slow as we learn how to manage an open source project.
Building
git clone https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire.git
cd NetNewsWire
git submodule update --init
You can locally override the Xcode settings for code signing
by creating a DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file locally at the appropriate path.
This allows for a pristine project with code signing set up with the appropriate
developer ID and certificates, and for dev to be able to have local settings
without needing to check in anything into source control.
As an example, make a ../../SharedXcodeSettings/DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file and
give it the contents
CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = Mac Developer
DEVELOPMENT_TEAM = <Your Team ID>
CODE_SIGN_STYLE = Automatic
PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER =
Now you should be able to build without code signing errors and without modifying the NetNewsWire Xcode project.
Example:
If your NetNewsWire Xcode project file is at:
/Users/Shared/git/NetNewsWire/NetNewsWire.xcodeproj
Create your DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file at
/Users/Shared/git/SharedXcodeSettings/DeveloperSettings.xcconfig