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NewsGroup reader
Posted by:
BeElZeBub
Date: January 25, 2001 08:09AM
Firstly, congrats Cristophe on a major product! - you Da Man !!
Small footprint is what it's all about. Coupl'a t'ings you might want to consider for future:
1 Implementing some sort of NewsGroup Reader: while writing, does anyone know of any free-standing NewsGroup Readers out there ? (IE5 doesn't do it well, I use Eudora for eMail - & that don't got it)
2 Will you be enhancing Edit capabilities in this TextBox I'm using here - Ctrl-Left/Right doesn't seem to work ? (or is that a function borrowed from elsewhere, where it also doesn't work ? actually it now seems to be just the ArrowKeys ... hmmmmm)
3 Can we point to different Favoutrites folders, not IE5's ?
... dat's 'bout it Man, keep up the great work!
c y`all !
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
Brian Harris
Date: January 26, 2001 05:44PM
it's doubtful that a newsreader will be added. from what I can tell the motto is "do one thing and do it well." What kmeleon will do is pass news: links to the default newgroup reader, be it netscape, outlook, agent, or anything else.
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
Sebastian Späth
Date: January 26, 2001 10:33PM
And I'd lik it to "do one thing and be small and fast with this",
code size and functionality is obviously correlated, so I wouldn't put my vote on this one. There are enough nice news agents out there.
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
BeElZeBub
Date: January 27, 2001 06:09PM
... I get your point, guys.
So, while writing - does anyone know of free-standing News Agents out there ??
thanks in advance
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
BeElZeBub
Date: February 02, 2001 07:30AM
Tx Brian - I'll 'give it a whirl!'
blzbb
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
Pawson
Date: February 15, 2001 10:47PM
Along with Agent I would recommend Xnews (
http://xnews.3dnews.net/ ), especially if you need multiple-newsserver access.
Pawson
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
Mosquito
Date: February 27, 2001 09:46PM
Thank you for NOT adding a news reader! I have given up on Netscape because it is so slow on tables etc. and I am totally disappointed by the mozilla thingie. Instead of coding a good browser and adding MODULES for things like mail and news, they make the development a never ending story and even add an IRC capability. *sigh*
I have tried Opera for a few weeks seriously but gave it up because it has a DNS lookup problem that costs a lot of time. I hope to find K-Meleon the right thing for my purposes because I hate myself for being a regular IE user now. :-)
So, keep up the great work, and keep it small, fast and simple!
RE: NewsGroup readerit
Posted by:
pandion
Date: March 28, 2001 05:53PM
I've spent an hour reading the posts here. I feel like I've crawled out of a bucket and have this tickling sensation...I liked k-meleon right off when I first found it a couple of weeks ago. Now I realize that you are probably building the browser of my dreams. No email client. No news reader. No instant messenger. Standard compatible. YES! I understand I can even lose Favorites. Goodie. There are good stand alone managers that work with any browser and have a much better file format.
I think I hate every browser except Lynx and that one is a little too frugal even for me. A new sensation - a browser to love. Thank you guys and keep the good work up.