It was definitely something wrong about Feedpedia retrieving the headlines over and over again, every time a feed was selected for viewing. Also, there was no way for it to remember which headline was viewed and which was not, and mark accordingly. Or to count the number of viewed headlines vs. unviewed.

So I had to do something which I didn’t originally planned, but was absolutely necessary: make a class which caches the latest headlines in a file on the local harddrive. This resolves all the mentioned problems, moreover it allows viewing the feeds even when you’re not connected to the Internet (it would’ve been a bummer if it didn’t do that).

I’m still working on the caching since it’s not as simple as it may sound. This involves a delay in Feedpedia’s release date, but I was expecting that from day 1.

• When the last 72 hours of work were useless
• The Internet Explorer team met the Mozilla team
• Feedpedia Online beta release

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