OSXnews is a small, fast usenet newsreader for OS X. It is designed to look and behave like Apple's Mail program and uses it for all mail functions. It also uses the Webcore engine used in Safari to display messages. It is actively being developed and the current version supports many (though not all ) features people expect in a newsreader. OSXnews is a Universal Application and works well on the new Intel Macs. It also has some support for binary posts. At the moment this is limited to single part yEnc posts. Full support is expected in upcoming versions.
This is a minor version change but a major update. The UI has now been changed to closely match that of mail.app in tiger (it still work in panther though) . OSXNews is also a universal binary now which should be good news for our intel using friends. I have added support for localization of the application by updating a few xml and one HTML file. There should be no need to play with nib files or anything like that. This way localization should seem less problematic and challenging.
Among other notable features is the addition of keyboard navigation with up and down arrow keys as well as expanding and collapsing threads with the T and C keys.
The message window also displays emoticons and all http and email links addresses are links.
Last but not least, we now have some experimental yenc support. it only supports single part binaries and is a little slow, but it will be much improved in the next version. Please submit bug reports here
read on for a full change log
Change log for 2.08
1. Fixed serious bug where messages saved in drafts were not being sent
2. changed the example in preferences from "
" to "users.sf.net"
3. Added support for internationalization in all alerts (Messages.xml)
4. Tiger-fied
5. 10.3 minimum requirement
6. Added internationalization for all toolbars (Toolbars.xml)
7. check for updates on by default
8. Internationalization in compose window (Compose.xml)
9. Is now a Universal Binary
10. main ui localized (Mainui.xml)
11. better unicode support
12. works with leafnode servers
13. fixed crashing bug when decoding charactersets
14. Preferences localized (Preferences.xml)
15. Fixed offline mode toggle bug
16. Detects http:// in messages and makes them clickable links
17. move through messages using arrow keys
18. unsubscribe now cmd+u delete cmd+d
19. make a message unread with M
20. Fully expand a thread with T, expand wit X and collapse with C
21. supports 14 basic emoticons now
22. Automatically makes email addresses clickable links
23. You can now tab between the sidebar and other items
24. you can navigate the sidebar with up and down arrow keys
25. added mainmenu.xml . localization support complete
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