nnw spotlight style

Ive slapped together a style for NetNewsWire 2 Beta based on the look of Apples Tiger Spotlight feature. Its basically the supplied Plain+ style with just the Spotlight glass effect under the title.

Anyway, download it here.

Oh yeah, installation. Put the folder in username/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/StyleSheets then choose it from the toolbar in NetNewWire.

Edit: 287 downloads as of 2:07am GMT 11th October 05
549 one day later (thats the total).
Oh yeah, I managed to bugger the time stamp and permalink by editing this with MarsEdit but hopefully its fine now.

12 comments

Bartelme Design 3 years, 9 months ago

Tom Burns · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

I’m not sure why, but this style makes a (seemingly unneeded) horizontal scrollbar show up in NNW2 for me. Any possible solutions? Great job, by the way.
matthew · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

no, im not to sure why im afraid, i borrowed some css from orangesquish to prevent it making multiple lines in the title so it maybe something to do with that. feel free to play with the css.
DeLynn Berry · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

The problem appears to be with the .newsItemTitle class. The “width: 100%;” does not appear to be needed with NetNewsWire. Eliminating this from the style sheet, removed the horizontal scroll bar for me.
Jan V · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago · subscribed to comments Quote

Replacing

width:100%;

with

made the scroll-bars go away. Not really sure why though

comment out or remove the width:100%; from newsItemTitle - Matthew
matthew · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

cool, thank you. Its fixed and uploaded.
Derik · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

Very cool Matt!
halbert · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

I dunno if this is peculiar to the Lite version, but I had to fully qualify the blue bar image to get it to show up. Like this:
url(file:///Users/home/Library/Application%20Support/NetNewsWire/stylesheets/spotlight/title.gif);
Michael · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

Rock! I’m now using this
Brent Simmons · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago · subscribed to comments Quote

Michael — I’d like to include your style sheet with NetNewsWire. Cool by you? (Style sheet credits appear in the About box in NetNewsWire.)
Michael · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

I hope you’re not looking at me, because I didn’t do this…
matthew · Posted 4 years, 1 month ago Quote

hehe.

Youre welcome to include it Brent, however the Spotlight effect under the title is obviously Apples so I dont know if theres any problem with that or if just crediting Apple is enough.

Either way, I have no problem, do with it what you will.