We're working on a new Radio UserLand 8.1 release, and we'd like your help
testing the recent changes. This beta-release includes several bug fixes and
improvements. Some new features are a new linkToStyleSheet macro and in the
news aggregator: Atom feed support and a new sort order preference.

*** How to test

1. Download this file and import it into Radio using the Open command in
Radio's File menu:

http://lawrence.userland.com/radioParts/radio81beta1.fttb

2. In the QuickScript window (Ctrl-;), run the following script:

workspace.radio81beta1.installer ()

3. Review the list of new features at the bottom of this email for changes
to test.

4. Send an email to the radio-dev list letting us know that it worked, or if
it didn't work, what happened.

If you need to remove the beta parts, you can run the following command in a
QuickScript command to restore the original parts (prior to installing of
the beta parts):

workspace.radio81beta1.installer (true)

Thanks!
Lawrence

*** radio.macros.linkToStyleSheet. You can use this new macro to link to a
CSS file instead of directly including the style sheet in each page.

linkToStyleSheet (csspath, flUseImportCommand=false)

csspath is a relative path to the CSS file inside the www folder.

An optional parameter. flUseImportCommand, a boolean, specifies if you want
to use the import command in the link to the external style sheet. You can
set it to false to work around some bugs in Netscape 4's CSS implementation.
The default is false.

*** Atom support for Radio news aggregator

This release includes the previously released beta for Atom support for the
Radio news aggregator.

Subscribe to an Atom 0.3 feed. Many sites with Atom feeds are listed on this
page, on the Atom Wiki:

http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/ListOfFeeds

Go to your aggregator/news page, and verify that you see some new items from
the Atom feed you just subscribed to.

*** New sort order preference

You can now change the sort order from the default to display the oldest
news items first.

http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=5.13

*** Additional changes and bug fixes

A list of other changes and bug fixes that you can test:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-dev/message/8219