[amphetadesk-develop] CVS Updates for AmphetaDesk

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

Two new additions today, thanks to contributors:

  - featurette: now supports authenticated proxies (Ian Dash and others).
  - bugfix: we handle the rss 2.0 "id" attributes on item (XML::Simple
    turns id's automatically into another tree level), and also no longer
    die if there is only one item in a channel (Jeremy Zawodny).

This is my list of "crap I will work on before I even think about adding a
new feature to AmphetaDesk" - they're bugfixes, goldplating, and documents
mostly.

 Goldplating:

  - we should remove urls_services_channels and urls_version_current from
    user modifiable space (and thus, the OPML). they're never used.
    further notes: urls_version_current will ultimatley never be used
    in the future (once we change around how version checks are done),
    urls_services_channels could be tasty however (for more info on
    both of these, check out the ./amphetadesk messages on -dev.
  - make a super mini icon for blogrolls.
  - add newest eric bookmarklet to the documentation.
  - look into new channels for use in the defaults.
  - figure out what to do with the lists/ directory on the site.
  - update the presspit. syntax check the entire doc directory.

 Bugfixes:

  - amphetadesk doesn't seem to work on win95.
  - add geomisk's garbage cleanup code on startup.
  - we should save the channel email within the OPML so that we can
    remove the logic from the templates and have a simple $channel->{email}.
  - we don't check for errors on whether the mirror/filesave
    actually works, causing fun nonesucheries on permission errs, etc.
    i bet we could make the mirror code more readable in the first place.
  - <a href="standard_link" onclick="popup_link(); return false">
    this allows the links to work on text browsers (as opposed to
    the evil img sort of html hack we're doing now. (fo...@bu...)
  - fix up the logging messages for downloading. they're confusing.
  - win32 fails if no index.html sent (i think this is related
    to the quickie : hack we do for Classic Macs).
  - CHANNEL LINKS: Check if the links in a channel's rss are relative
    ("/relative/click.html") and turn them into $channel->{htmlurl} .
    "/relative/click.html" (absolute versions).
  - EXTERNAL LINKS: There are still some feeds that our A HREF regexp
    doesn't seem to catch for fixing the TARGET of the link. Add about
    a hundred or so feeds, and you'll inevitably find one. Why?
  - IMPORTING: On import, we should add data to the existing storage
    if the $xmlurl exists (as opposed to mass overwriting which we do now).
    This will stop clobbering attributes that currently exist that
    may not be in the import.

  - add faq? "how to find your proxy server", "common zip problems", etc?
  - get deus to write a bit about the "to create a mac os x binary"
    on the build page (how are icons built? can he blurb a bit about
    the shell files, and how those are run?)
  - OS X: it seems to crash when it's a login item, Morbus has
    not been able to duplicate this, waiting on more info.
    (as...@bl...)

I may do these within the coming weeks, I may not - it really depends on my
schedule, and how I'm feeling (I've been exhausted lately due to mass
amounts of writing, and no coding).

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