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Dave Seidel :: Wavicle
Holons, nothing but holons.
Monday, April 21, 2003
« AmphetaDesk: early impressions »
Initial problem: AD wouldn't read my Radio mySubscriptions.opml file. Solution: after seeing a comment somewhere about Unicode content in mySubscriptions.opml causing a problem for someone, I fired up SlickEdit and discovered two locations in the file where the xmlUrl attribute string was terminated by a low-ASCII character (i.e., in the control character range). Once I had eliminated those, AD slurped it up and went to town.
I don't like the default skin very much, but I quickly discovered Les Orchard's groovy skin, and I'm currently playing with that, very nice. On the negative side, it took over five minutes (after the big initial scan) for the page to render.
My main complaint now (not sure if this is a skin issue or an application design choice) is that I really like the way that Radio allows me to view the current news, and then delete all the items with a single click. Otherwise, it just gets cluttered. Likewise, I like the fact that Radio only shows me the feeds that actually have new content. When I get a little time to investigate, I want to see if I can get these behavior in AD.
The other issue I have is that AD is actually using much more memory than Radio: at this moment, 108MB for AD vs. 22MB for Radio. Not a good sign. I run lots of development tools and do lots of testing on this box, and I don't want to give away that much RAM.
Holons, nothing but holons.
Monday, April 21, 2003« AmphetaDesk: early impressions »
Initial problem: AD wouldn't read my Radio mySubscriptions.opml file. Solution: after seeing a comment somewhere about Unicode content in mySubscriptions.opml causing a problem for someone, I fired up SlickEdit and discovered two locations in the file where the xmlUrl attribute string was terminated by a low-ASCII character (i.e., in the control character range). Once I had eliminated those, AD slurped it up and went to town.
I don't like the default skin very much, but I quickly discovered Les Orchard's groovy skin, and I'm currently playing with that, very nice. On the negative side, it took over five minutes (after the big initial scan) for the page to render.
My main complaint now (not sure if this is a skin issue or an application design choice) is that I really like the way that Radio allows me to view the current news, and then delete all the items with a single click. Otherwise, it just gets cluttered. Likewise, I like the fact that Radio only shows me the feeds that actually have new content. When I get a little time to investigate, I want to see if I can get these behavior in AD.
The other issue I have is that AD is actually using much more memory than Radio: at this moment, 108MB for AD vs. 22MB for Radio. Not a good sign. I run lots of development tools and do lots of testing on this box, and I don't want to give away that much RAM.
