Rob Fahrni

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Work Note: Stream for Mac

What did I get done today? 🤔

I Love RSS!I did a bunch of little things to make the app have fewer rough edges.

  • Removed the border around the blog list (Thanks, Lucien)
  • Updated the selected Blog in the blog list to use white text
  • Rounded the corners of the selected blog item in the blog list
  • Adjusted the position of Blog list items to have some space around them
  • Set the divider between panes to be thin
  • If one blog is select and you refresh it, we only refresh that one item (Thanks, John)
  • Updated the All and Read Later icons to have some color

I tried to fix an issue that causes the preview text in the feed item list to sometimes display only a single line but the text view is three lines high. Weird, I know. Sometimes it will display a single line but the text could be three lines high. I know this has something to do with cell recycling. I tried some recommended things to get the cells to resize their Text but no luck yet. I’ll get there.

Another thing I need to do to fix this is decode any HTML included in the feed and strip everything at the top that’s not a paragraph marker. What happens now is you won’t get any preview text because the top bit is an image or other HTML I’m not accounting for.

I didn’t get around to fixing OPML Import so it displays some sort of progress indicator while it’s working. I’m thinking about displaying a simple spinner with text to the right that reads something like “Importing: [blog name goes here]” in the toolbar. I think I’ll hide the refresh button and the Stream title text and replace it with the spinner and import text. That sounds good in my brain at the moment. đź§