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NewsFire 1.2 screenshot

NewsFire 1.2

A pretty innocuous screenshot at first, but a lot of people have requested the ability to have the spacebar move through lists in oldest-to-newest order, rather than the standard newest-to-oldest behavior in NewsFire 1.1, so hopefully this will be a minor thrill to some.

  • August 21st, 2005 12:14 am

4 comments...

Jesse...

I doubt this is very easy, but I think it would be great if NewsFire could download images from a feed in advance. This would mean I wouldn’t have to wait for images to load when browsing photo feeds. For an example of where this would really improve the experience, check out the Flickr feeds.


Will...

Excellent! Thanks David, I was one of the folks dying for this feature. Now you just need to throw us a bone, and give us a hint as to when 1.2 will see the light of day.

Jesse’s suggestion is interesting. I think I’d prefer to see a pre-fetch algorithm. Basically, while you are looking at an article, any images from the next 5 articles (as dictated by where the spacebar would take you next) are being pre-fetched. That way, you avoid excess caching on images you might not look at, but the experience is fast. I look at lots of photo blogs, so I agree, this would be a great boon to the experience.

Keep up the good work.


Peter...

Pre-fetching would be cool; as would Inquisition-style search completion – I can’t wait!


Juan...

Hi Dave

This new feature of movin from oldest to newest and viceversa, i think it would be a lot better if it was implemented in a per-feed basis.

For example, i have news feeds that i like browsing from new to old so i read stuff till i c somethng i already have read at work, but i also have forum feeds, that i prefer reading using the old-to-new way so the posts make a bit more sense.

Saying that, would it be possible to somehow group posts from the same thread? just an idea

Great stuff anyway. Thanks