Apparently it's been exactly one month since the 1.2 release. But, better late than never, RikReader 1.3 is here. This months new 'feature' is a completely rewritten1 HTML parser.
- Install with Clickonce
- FireFox and other browsers: run this file to Install with Clickonce.
- Find out more about RikReader
- Subscribe to the RikReader RSS Feed
- View the Changelog
For end users this means feeds should look great. Finally no more distractions when people write in Comic Sans as RikReader now ignores all but the most important formatting. This certainly isn't to say that RikReader's HTML capability is limited; floats, quotes, tables and images should now render better than ever.
To ease publishing new versions, and to slightly simplify the codebase, I've decided to discontinue the zip based installation. If you have issues against using Clickonce please complain loudly.
1 Actually this was replaced rather than rewritten, since I didn't write the original version. For interested WPF developers I'd recommend basing a HTML to XAML converter on the old but excellent SgmlReader sample on gotdotnet.com. The HTML to XAML converter on netfx3.com is a nice start, but due to it's complexity and size I was reluctant to extend it. Working with the SgmlReader I was able to produce a concise and in my opinion easily extensible converter. Given sufficient interest I could be persuaded to release it.
