Beta release: NewsFox 0.8.1b7

This beta release will become version 0.8.1 after translations and bug fixes.

The usual disclaimers apply: this is a beta release so use it with caution on a backup of your Newsfox folder. ***THIS VERSION USES A NEW ENCODING FOR ALL OF THE *.xml FILES, SO IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO REVERT TO version 0.8 OR EARLIER.***

I use it on my real Newsfox folder.

The new features (where to look for bugs to fix):

• New feed parser
  Make sure your feeds work correctly. The new parser decodes all categories (forward slash separated list), handles relative links in atom feeds better, deals with no links and common links better, separates 'No Date', 'Invalid Date', and 'Future Date' with about:config control.
• Newsfox directory choice
  You can now keep your Newsfox directory on your flash drive.

  What needs testing: entering directory paths directly, copying directories. Right now there is no warning when copying - and copying a large directory to a USB 1.1 device can take a while. Putting up a warning will be a pain(needing to copy the files 1 by 1 rather than just copying the directory), so hopefully it is not a problem.

• Date style options
  Available from the global options dialog: there are 3 choices, ISO(no seconds), system short date, and system long date.
• More choices in textview.css
  The following classes are defined: .newsfox-mail, .newsfox-title, .newsfox-category, .newsfox-date, .newsfox-link, .newsfox-enclosures, .newsfox-encl. So you can style individual pieces of the newsfox-box in text view. For example, to keep the categories from showing, place
  
  .newsfox-category { display: none; }
  
  in your textview.css file inside your newsfox folder. The class .newsfox-enclosures refers to the span containing all enclosures, and .newsfox-encl refers to a single enclosure. For example,
  
  a.newsfox-encl:link img{ border: 2px solid; }
  
  would place a border around the enclosure icons(this default link styling is turned off in the javascript).
• UTF-8 encoding of files
  Files should be smaller and encoding should be faster. Please report problems.
• Atom xhtml displayed as xhtml in text view
  See, for example, Sam Ruby feed for some SVG graphics. Report problems.
• Expanded OPML import options
  
• Email article and enclosures
There is not really much to test here, except that your browser(not Newsfox) is configured correctly to handle these types of actions. Email programs don't seem to handle mailto: links very well. There is an about:config option to copy the body of the article to the clipboard when emailing so you can just ctrl-v and get it in the message. It should paste as html if your emailer supports it, but if there is a better way to set this up, I'm all ears. A mailto: link can only be a very short length (256 bytes?), so there is no possibility to put the body in the link.
• FF3.0a7 support
  Ha, ha, none of the live bookmark code is in the alpha yet, so there is nothing to test. The livemarks button just gives a message that it doesn't work in FF3.0a7.
• Main link in text view opens in new tab/window.

R Pruitt (wa84it AT gmail.com)