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There are many apps already supporting Growl. Growl is already an excellent system wide notification app, and many apps have started using it. The Activity window tells you this, but I would find a Growl message more useful. Whether its still checking RSS feeds, synchronising bookmarks or whether those activites have finished. I’d like a better idea of when Omniweb is doing something.(There is a hidden preference which you can enable via the terminal, but its not something OmniGroup have worked on, and it will only find the first instance of your search term) Find as you type - FIrefox has an excellent implementation of this, but currently Omniweb will only do this with links.Other functionality I’d love to see at some point NetNewsWire overcomes this by scrolling if it needs to. The greyed out ‘more’ doesn’t allow you to see the rest of the feeds. It’d be great if the dock menu didn’t hide feeds over a certain amount.Have the preference to pass auto-detected feeds onto your default RSS Reader if you don’t want to use the in-built one.All the information is already there - source, headline, dates, excerpts, I wonder if it would be hard to bring them together in a new interface? In the same way that you can view bookmarks as a tab, have the ability to view RSS feeds in a tab, with a simple 2 or 3 paned interface, like the bookmark manager. Keep them as bookmarks, but treat them separately.This is how I’d like to see RSS incorporated: So if you only want to check manually, you have edit the preferences for each feed individually. If you have ‘never’ checked in your preferences, each feed you add has a daily frequency applied to it despite this.

#Omniweb apps update#

You can’t set a frequency to update feeds globally.There were also other performance issues until I deleted all the feeds.

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mac (but works fine once they’re removed). With 150+ feeds, my bookmarks refuse to synchronise with.

Omniweb doesn’t seem to handle large amounts of feeds very well.

The only way to read excerpts is to view the feed bookmark with ‘site info’ showing.

It has more features than you might expect from an in-browser solution, but its drawbacks are: Omniweb’s RSS Reader is so almost there as a useful aggregator.

Favourites Bar - No folder icons or shadow.

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Download Manager - Aqua alternate row striping to differentiate each item, and larger file icons, as in Safari, NetNewsWire 2, Transmit 3 and Unison.This screenshot also includes mockups of other wee interface changes I’d like to see: The fact that Apple has removed the drawer from Mail makes me wonder if many other apps will continue to use it? Anyway, here’s a mockup of how Omniweb could look with these sorts of changes:Īs you can see, the tabs become more like a sidebar. Apps like Ecto and NetNewsWire have started adopting the interface evolution shown in the Tiger version of Mail, and its worked well for them. When I have Mail, Ecto, xPad and others open, I get a bit sick of flippin’ drawers everywhere, and long for a simplified outline like Safari. The tab drawer and bookmark manager feel just right, but other areas let it down for me. It’s probably just the designer in me, but I desire a little more ‘OS X slickness’ that other apps have. OW has the all features I want (apart from find as you type, which I get from Saft), but after prolonged use, areas of the UI make me long for Safari. The main thing that makes me use Safari is that its interface is a whole lot easier on the eye than Omniweb. Nowadays, Firefox only gets opened up for DOM inspecting or javascript debugging, and Camino hasn’t been used in over a year. I use a mixture of Omniweb and Safari all the time now. Since then, 5.1 has been released, and the list has grown somewhat. Since my first Omniweb Wishlist, 2 of the wishes have happened, RSS feeds now open in new tabs, and its merged with the latest webcore.