The Mozilla Project has posted the multilanguage (Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Slovak with Chinese in preparation) version ofCamino 0.8.1, a Mac OS X web browser based on the Gecko 1.7 rendering engine and the Quartz GUI toolkit. This release makes major updates to the rendering engine. Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later is required.
Jason Hunter has released JDOM 1.0, an open source API for processing XML with Java. The API is unchanged since beta 10. A few bugs have been fixed. Java 1.2 or later is required.
Now that I'm moving my primary machine to Mac OS X, I've decided to finally break down and get an RSS reader. A lot of people like the payware NetNewsWire or the free-beer NetNewsWire Lite, but I'm going to try RSSOwl first instead. It's open source and written in Java, so I figure I should be able to fix it so it works the way I want if necessary. Of course if it requires too much fixing that decision may change fast. Hmm, it doesn't open pages in my browser so I'm forced to use a third of a screen in RSSOwl to read an entire article, and there's no AppleScript support. This may change faster than I thought. HMm, OK. Maybe not. It can use an external browser, but you have to configure that in the preferences first, which are not in the right place. (I filed a bug on this.) Hmm, and even after you do that it picks the wrong browser (Safari instead of Mozilla) but at least it uses an external browser. OK, looks like Net Newswire has the same bug, but NetNewswire has a FAQ that explains how to work around the bug. Wouldn't you know it? That fixes the bug in RSSOwl too.