SharpReader 0.9.3 published

Luke Hutteman has released a new version of SharpReader:

SharpReader 0.9.3 is now available for download at sharpreader.net.

Changes since the last version are:

• .NET 1.1 only. Go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com to upgrade if you currently only have .NET 1.0 installed
• Added support for HTTP Authentication (either through a username:pwd@url, or through a popup authentication dialog)
• FeedValidator.org url change
• Multi-select enabled in headline-view
• Handle feed:// protocol. Links to a feed:rss-url will automatically open in SharpReader. For example <feed:www.hutteman.com/weblog/rss.xml> would open my rss-feed in SharpReader.
• Updated to use log4j 1.2.0 beta 8 - this build no longer has the Win98/WinME bug
• Improved performance of opening new browser windows for users with IE as their default browser.
• Support for the <wfw:commentrss> element.
  • Comments are retrieved on demand and are cached across sessions.
  • If both <wfw:commentrss> and <slash:comments> tags are present, SharpReader changes the comment-count displayed when you delete comments, and also displays the number of unread items.
  • For items no longer in the rss-feed, a “+” is displayed after the comment-count to indicate more comments could have been added since the item disappeared from the feed.
• Fixed bug that sometimes caused an InvalidOperationException (Collection was modified) to occur.
• Save subscriptions right away when new feed is added.
• Load subscriptions.xml even if there was a problem loading settings.xml (previously you would lose all your subscriptions if this happened).
• Added feed-property to specify whether to automatically open the links belonging to an item. Property can be set to “always”, “never”, or “only if no description is present”.
• “Copy IE Proxy Settings on SharpReader startup” option on the proxy-tab.
• Bypass proxy for local URLs
• Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane)
• Memory consumption has been reduced by approximately 25%. Startup performance has also been improved.

Yes, the memory consumption is better now, but still high. However, what I really like is the that the option to open links always, never, and only if no description is present is per feed. Some feeds do contain only a few lines of the entire posting, so for these I set the option to always. I really like that.

And finally it provides toasts…

Though I like the UI of FeedDemon much more, I think I’m going back to SharpReader. Maybe Luke will publish the source code some time