Short:        Native AOS4.0 RSS News Reader
Author:       Max Tretene
Uploader:     glquake libero it (m3x)
Type:         comm/news
Version:      51.8
Requires:     AmigaOS4.0 update 4
Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.0

XNet-RSS 51.8 readme

XNet-RSS is a native AmigaOS4.0 RSS News reader.
It has automatic charset convertion and doesn't need any external library.
Could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS news pages.

New features added from the 51.7 release:

- added double-click support on listbrowsers: 
  double-clicking on a News Channel entry, update it
  double-clicking on a News entry, open the browser on the news page (require OpenURL installed) 
  double-clicking on a News Preference entry, open the Modify News Channel window
- it's possible to select which News Channel to show in the News Bar (Modify News Channel window)
- improved html entities parsing and stripping
- bugs fixing

How to use:

- upack it in any directory
- start from CLI or WB
- add / remove whatever RSS news channel you prefer
  (if this is a first installation, you can use the included RSS news channels)
- press update to retrive the latest news
- could be integrated with any web browser to display RSS News pages.
  With IBrowse, add a new MIME type in the General/External Viewer setup:
  Type: application/xml
  Extension:
  Action: external viewer
  Viewer: <path>XNet FILES %f (where <path> indicates the complete path to the XNet directory)
- to use with OpenURL, download and install the PPC library version from: 
  http://www.os4depot.net/share/network/misc/openurl.lha
  Run the OpenURL prefs program to configure your prefered browser.
  Now,  when clicking on the highlighted news title in the view news area, or when double-clicking on a 
  News entry will open the news page in your browser. 

Any bugs report, suggestion, please write to: info()soft3.net

Ciao

Max Tretene, S o f t 3

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Release notes:

02 Apr 2006 - 51.8:
	- added double-click support on listbrowsers: 
	  double-clicking on a News Channel entry, update it
	  double-clicking on a News entry, open the browser on the news page (require OpenURL installed) 
	  double-clicking on a News Preference entry, open the Modify News Channel window
	- it's possible to select which News Channel to show in the News Bar (Modify News Channel window)
	- improved html entities parsing and stripping
	- bugs fixing