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FeedForAll Mac Release Notes
FeedForAll Mac Release Notes
May 21, 2007: Release Version 2.1.0.0
- Universal Binary
- Improved support for Atom 1.0 feeds
- Add suport for iTunes, TrackBack, and
Dublin Core in export to HTML
- Add support for locales when creating
licenses in Creative Commons
November 27, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.7
- Fix a problem that when some XML Extensions
were cloned they were linked together as
one.
November 13, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.6
- Add MIME types for 3GP video formats
- Publish the XML file after all other files
have been published. This prevents some
one from trying to download an enclosure
before it is fully published
October 16, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.4
- Update the ordering URL to a new page
that just has the Mac versions of the software
- The RSS 2.0 spec says if the GUID's isPermaLink
attribute is missing the default value is
"true". Fix the code to match the spec
- The Media RSS extension wasn't properly
encoding some of the characters in the "text"
field
- Fix the drawing of the background color
in the feed list
- Fix so that Media RSS properly writes
out the tag <media:keywords>
August 23, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.3
- Fix the processing of <textInput>,
where the wasn't paresed right.
August 15, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.2
- Don't use the for
when it is blank, because of the differences
in size
- When an undefined extension is empty
in some conditions it showed the previous
value, fixed
- Fix Edit Additional Files in Publishing
to show the right template. The wrong template
was displayed, but the right value is still
stored
- Fix the "Destination" button on the Export
screen
July 19, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.0
- FeedForAll Mac now supports unified publishing.
Publish the feed, all enclosures, images,
and other files at the same time to FTP,
.Mac or servers on your local network. This
feature also supports publishing the feed
in a variety of export formats and publishing
an OPML list.
- The Yahoo® Media Extensions (Media RSS),
Creative Commons Extension (creativeCommons),
and the TrackBack Extension (trackback)
have been added to the list of supported
Extensions (XML Namespaces) when creating
Feeds and Podcasts. FeedForAll Mac supports
adding metadata elements for iTunes®, Microsoft®
Simple List Extensions (cf), Dublin Core
(dc), Syndication (sy), and Content as well.
- Import items from other feeds. FeedForAll
Mac uses a new advanced import feature allowing
the user greater control over the items
imported.
- FeedForAll Mac now has OPML capabilities.
This includes the ability to create a simple
OPML list or blogroll of the feeds that
you work with in FeedForAll Mac.
- In addition to being able to specify an
XSL file, now a CSS file can be specified
for controlling the display of the contents
of the feed.
- FeedForAll Mac has added several new tutorials,
as well as updated existing tutorials supporting
new and modified features.
- FeedForAll Mac has the ability to generate
a unique GUID and also has a Preferences
option which automatically generates a unique
GUID for each item.
- The Search and Replace feature allows
users to search and replace content in multiple
fields and items in a feed. The XML Source
Editor also has search and replace capabilities.
- FeedForAll Mac supports multiple categories,
as allowed by the RSS 2.0 Specification.
RSS 2.0 specifications are located on the
Harvard Law Website at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss.
- To eliminate the risk of losing your data
through accidental deletion, malfunction,
or disk erasure FeedForAll Mac creates a
backup of the current XML file.
July 11, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.10
- Supports the new Apple iTunes tags.
May 9, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.9
- CD version customers can be used after
during the first 30 days to try a newer
version.
April 5, 2006: Beta Version 2.0.0.0b3
- The Creative Commons and Track Back extensions
have been added to the list of supported
Extensions (XML Namespaces) when creating
Feeds and Podcasts. FeedForAll Mac supports
adding metadata elements for iTunes, Microsoft
Simple List Extensions (cf), Dublin Core
(dc), Syndication (sy), Content, Media RSS
(media) as well.
- Add the ability to generate a unique
GUID. Add a preferences option to automatically
generate a unique GUID.
- Add support for multiple categories,
as allowed by the RSS 2.0 spec.
- Create a backup of the current XML file
before saving.
- Add search and replace to the feed.
- Add search and replace to the XML Source
Editor.
- What was added in Beta 2.0.0.0b1
- FeedForAll Mac now supports unified publishing.
Publish the feed, all enclosures, images,
and other files at the same time to FTP,
.Mac or servers on your local network. This
feature also supports publishing the feed
in a variety of export formats and publishing
an OPML list.
- The Yahoo Media Extensions (Media RSS)
has been added to the list of supported
Extensions (XML Namespaces) when creating
Feeds and Podcasts. FeedForAll Mac supports
adding metadata elements for iTunes, Microsoft
Simple List Extensions (cf), Dublin Core
(dc), Syndication (sy), and Content as well.
- Import items from other feeds. FeedForAll
Mac uses a new advanced import feature allowing
the user greater control over the items
imported.
- FeedForAll Mac now has OPML capabilities.
This includes the ability to create a simple
OPML list or blogroll of the feeds that
you work with in FeedForAll Mac.
- In addition to being able to specify
an XSL file, now a CSS file can be specified
for controlling the display of the contents
of the feed.
March 20, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.8
- Temporary work around for Universal Binary
versions
- Treat the file's extension in case insensitive
matter, even though it is not, when working
with MIME types
March 9, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.7
- If an
- does not have a title, display
the description in the list
- Create a backup of the current XML file
before saving
- Fix the WISIWYG editor so that clicking
on links brings up the edit panes, this
was broken on Tiger in one of the updates
- Fix the WYSIWYG editor, when editing
images the height and width were being set
to zero
- Add a warning every time the "New Feed
URL" is used, since it is rarely used.
- Update the validation of the feed's image
fields
- Fix the processing for the W3CDTF, ISO
8601 : 1988 (E), date formats used in rdf,
dc, sy and other XML namespaces
February 17, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.6
- When parsing a RSS 1.0 or 0.9 feed, dont
carry over the data since there
is not translation into RSS 2.0
- IMPORTANT -- The URLs for link and similar
are no longer unencoded for display. They
will be encoded for the XML, if needed
- Fix a crash after FTP Upload caused by
interaction with "View XML"
- Relax the validation of items to only
require either the title or description
and not both
February 14, 2006: Release Version 2.0.0.0
Beta
- FeedForAll Mac now supports unified publishing.
Publish the feed, all enclosures, images,
and other files at the same time to FTP,
.Mac or servers on your local network. This
feature also supports publishing the feed
in a variety of export formats and publishing
an OPML list.
- The Yahoo® Media Extensions (Media RSS)
has been added to the list of supported
Extensions (XML Namespaces) when creating
Feeds and Podcasts. FeedForAll Mac supports
adding metadata elements for iTunes®, Microsoft®
Simple List Extensions (cf), Dublin Core
(dc), Syndication (sy), and Content as well.
- Import items from other feeds. FeedForAll
Mac uses a new advanced import feature allowing
the user greater control over the items
imported
- FeedForAll Mac now has OPML capabilities.
This includes the ability to create a simple
OPML list or blogroll of the feeds that
you work with in FeedForAll Mac.
- In addition to being able to specify
an XSL file, now a CSS file can be specified
for controlling the display of the contents
of the feed.
February 6, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.5
- Fix the encoding of GUID if it is a URL
- In validation check for commas in the
itunes:keywords for separators instead of
spaces
January 16, 2006: Release Version 1.6.0.4
- Fix the processing of <textInput>
- Changed how line numbers were displayed
in the XML viewer, the previous method had
problems in very large feeds.
- Make the storing of per-feed preferences
more flexible and to match the new 2.x style.
- Produce validate warnings if the iTunes
Owner Name and Email are blank.
December 13, 2005: Release Version 1.6
- Copy from Description or Title on the
Feed Level into iTunes®; Subtitle and Summary
data entry fields using Control-Click.
- Made it possible for users to customize
the toolbar like most applications for OS
X.
- Easily include Extensions (XML Namespaces)
when creating Feeds and Podcasts. FeedForAll
Mac makes adding metadata elements for iTunes®
(itunes), Microsoft® Simple List Extensions
(cf), Dublin Core (dc), Syndication (sy),
and Content (content) by simply selecting
the appropriate Namespace.
- FeedForAll Mac along with supporting
the Microsoft® Simple List Extensions provides
sorting items in the current feed for free.
The Microsoft® Simple List Extension is
not required for this feature to work.
- FeedForAll Mac provides several new printing
features: Print Preview, Printing, and Print
XML.
- Support Namespaces in RSS 0.9, 0.91,
0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds.
- FeedForAll Mac has made setting the time
and date in the Date Picker easier. To use
the current time and date, simply click
the "Now" Button.
October 24, 2005: Release Version 1.5.1.0
- Don't clear the FTP log with every upload,
only on entry to FTP
- Don't do the 3 stage upload the was great
for debugging, "Browse" does that
better.
- Identify software version at the top of
the FTP log.
- Add support to get help on all fields
by pressing the Help button.
- Fix the improper encoding of the apostrophe
(') to &apos; in previous versions
- Auto-magically add XML Namespace declarations
if a namespace is found in the feed without
a declaration and the namespace is known
in Preferences
- Add new "Item Wizard"
- Add iTunes® support to the Feed Wizard
September 30, 2005: Release Version 1.5.0.0
(Beta 1)
- Redid the way XML Namespaces (extensions)
are handled, with full support for iTunes®
- Added Left, Center, Right and Fill justify
to WYSIWYG
- Fix so all files and images can be fetched
from https:// sites
- Added a browse capability to FTP upload
- Fix uploading files with a space in the
name
- Fix problem when opening some feeds that
caused a crash
- Fix the sparadic corruption of username
that is sent on FTP upload
- Fix problems parsing FTP dir listings
on some servers that don't return a group
- Fix failure on FTP upload when the password
is an email address
September 21, 2005: Release Version 1.0.1.6
- Sometimes ' wasn't being converted
back into ' in description
August 29, 2005: Release Version 1.0.1.5
- HTTP proxies for FTP don't support FTP
uploads, so don't use proxies for upload
August 6, 2005: Release Version 1.0.1.4
- Fix uploading files with a space in the
name
August 3, 2005: Release Version 1.0.1.3
-
Fix problem when opening some feeds
that caused a crash
August 1, 2005
- Fix the sporadic corruption of username
that is sent on FTP upload.
July 29, 2005 Release Version 1.0.1.1
- Fix problems parsing FTP dir listings
on some servers that don't return a group
- Fix failure on FTP upload when password
is an email address
July 26, 2005 Release Version
1.0.1.0
- Fix FTP upload to servers that don't allow
renaming to an existing file
- Fix not saving on exit and other save
improvements
- Fix <item> to give preference to
content:encoded over description
- Fix the parsing of <
