News in 2.0

[Erik Doernenburg]

Hi Folks,

> 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.

The next version of Alexandra-a not so shabby freeware newsreader-will support Drag&Drop of URLs according to the WebStep standard. It will also treat URLs embedded in articles similar to URLifier.bundle.

As a very simple interface between a web browser and Alexandra I could image an `Alexandra/Open URL' service that works on ASCII and WebStep Pasteboard Types.  We'd be interested in discussing more elaborate methods which would allow for a closer coupling of the two applications.
 
> 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.

What a coincidence! You're not adding news support because you're talking $$$ and we're writing a newsreader because we can afford not to have to earn money with it.

erik