From b0f7a8795f3ba90c688469ff3b83717e9615e0b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeena Paradies Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:01:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added nice to know --- README.markdown | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index 23cf1f1..5b6a5fc 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ Twittia ======= Twittia is a slim Twitter client for OS X written in mostly JavaScript. -It doesn't implement much of Twitters functionality, only the things *I* -care for. Therefore it is _small_ (84 KB) and _fast_. -_Keep it simple, stupid!_ Is the mantra, therefore there will not by much more +It doesn't implement much of Twitters functionality, only the things **I** +care for. Therefore it is **small** (84 KB) and **fast**. +_"Keep it simple, stupid!"_ Is the mantra, therefore there will not by much more functionality as it is now. But you're welcome to fork and extend it. -[Download Twittia](http://github.com/downloads/jeena/Twittia/Twittia.app.zip) +[Download Twittia 2](http://github.com/downloads/jeena/Twittia/Twittia.app.zip) It works on Mac OS 10.5 and higher. @@ -21,4 +21,21 @@ FAQ:s 2. To change the username you have to open upp Keychain Access.app, search for the item "api.twitter.com" and remove or change it. -3. No there is no icon yet. \ No newline at end of file +3. No, there is no icon yet. + + +Nice to know +------------ + +There was a original Twittia 1 which was written in Ruby-Cocoa, it was +quite ok back then, but the code was a mess. And then along came +Tweetie and I lost the desire to write my own Twitter client, because +it was so much further then twittia and looked nicer and so on. + +But now Tweetie wasn't update for a really long time, and I really +wanted to see retweets in my stream so I decided to rip out the look +from Twittia 1 and implement it in a new much slimmer version. + +And because Twitter offers a JSON API and Twittias rendering Engine is +just a simple WebKit WebView I implemented the core functionality in +JavaScript and am very happy with it. \ No newline at end of file