News in 2.0

[Mathias Picker]

On Sun, 10 Dec 95, William Shipley wrote:
> news: doesn't work at all in OmniWeb 2.0. Handling news correctly
> is a lot of work and it seemed like it wasn't worth bothering to do
> it limpingly like 1.0 did. I'd like to make OmniWeb work with the
> existing newsreaders for news: urls, but I don't know if this'll
> happen for 2.0 or 2.1.
> 
> We may add it if there's enough interest, but I'm talking $$$ not
> "Hey, it'd be nice". Honestly, we only have so much time.
> 
> -Wil

Well, I think your approach is right: let newreading to the newsreaders. Why bother implementing it for the onehundredfirst time. This is Nextstep, after all :-)

BTW: Wouldn*t we need some newsreader-independent way of controlling one?