DaisyFeed 1.1 Approaches!

November 6, 2008 by kidjan 

We are nearing completion of 1.1, which is going to bring about a slew of new features, improvements and bug fixes.  The feedback we’ve received has been tremendously helpful, and to everyone who submitted bugs, feature requests and critiques, thank you!  Your contributions have been extremely helpful.

A brief list of changes in 1.1:

  • The Full Article feature returns!  You will now be able to view the full web page in DaisyFeed.
  • Online Documentation.  We’ve added additional documentation available in the application that details how to perform various operations.  We’ll be updating the documentation in the very near future to include more tutorials.
  • Reworked page for viewing articles–added buttons to jump to previous and next articles, moved safari and mail links into a separate menu
  • “Strike” gesture support for deleting items from a feed!  By swiping a given feed item, they can be easily deleted.
  • Basic OPML support.  By entering an OPML URL into autodetect (e.g. scripting.com/feeds/top100.opml), DaisyFeed will add a whole new category and all of the feeds contained in the OPML file.
  • Fix for feeds with relative URLs.
  • Fixes for some feeds with funny date/time formats.
  • Fix for odd keyboard layouts and using wrong keyboard for a given page.
  • Improved Memory Management.  This makes DaisyFeed more stable and less prone to crashing.
  • More robust feed parsing.
  • Numerous other bugs and application crashes have been solved.

Bullet points are all fine and dandy, but everybody loves the eye-candy.  Here’s a shot of the new article page (full view returns! previous/next article navigation! hurray!), and the new sub-menu to mail/open in safari:

Here’s a screen shot of the online documentation:

Here’s initial OPML support:

For OPML, we’d love feedback on how you use OPML files in various reader applications so we can figure out how to best implement this new feature.  We realize our method for importing may not be ideal, so suggestions and advice are welcome.  We look forward to hearing any and all comments about DaisyFeed.  Let us know what you think!

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One Response to “DaisyFeed 1.1 Approaches!”

  1. John Yull on February 9th, 2009 1:38 am

    Exactly how do I add my Google Reader to Daisy and will it keep my folders/tags and the Post Ranks I selected in Google Reader (or will Daisy just apply Post Ranks regardless of my Google Reader selections, i.e. Best, Great, Good…) etc.

    And will Daisy ever adapt PostRank profile icon ranks vs the common “# of hits rankings”.

    Thanks,

    John Yull

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