New right-click menu commands, experimental OPML 2.0 support

Several new, related features, add two new right-click menu commands for outlines, and a new preference that turns on experimental OPML 2.0 support. New version is 0.69.

How to install

1. Choose Update opml.root from the File menu.

2. Choose Get Latest Code from the Community menu.

The Add Feed command

1. Open any outline window, create a new headline by pressing the Return key.

2. Right-click on the new headline. You should see a new Add Feed command. If you choose the command a dialog appears, asking you to enter the address of a feed. It can be an RSS or Atom 0.3 feed. Enter the URL and click on OK. The title of the feed is filled in (only if the headline is empty), and the icon changes to the icon of a feed headline. If you expand the headline, the contents of the feed is filled in.

Here's a screen shot showing a feed in an outline.

This command is easier to access than the equivalent command in newsRiver.root, in fact it contains almost exactly the same code.

The Add Inclusion command

1. For this command, you have to turn on OPML 2.0 support, since inclusions are a feature of OPML 2.0. To do so, choose Preferences from the community menu, and navigate to the option for OPML 2.0 outlines. You should see a panel that looks something like this screen shot. Click the checkbox and then click Submit.

2. Open any outline window, create a new headline, right-click, choose Add Inclusion from the popup menu.

3. A dialog appears. Enter the URL of an OPML file. It does not have to end in .opml (thankfully). Click on OK. Now, when you expand the headline, the contents of the included outline appears below the headline.

Here's a screen shot showing an inclusion in an outline.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 3/19/06; 6:31:49 PM - --