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The next release of BottomFeeder should see a raft of improvements. I'm in the process of moving the Http code over to use NetResources - a package written by Michael Lucas-Smith. It's basically a cleaned up, better version of the Http-Access package that I've been using. This should result in some cleaner code, and better performance when fetching cached items (and a smaller footprint - this package does disk caching instead of the all in memory job that my package does). After that, the big job comes up - WithStyle. I intend to replace the Twoflower browser component with WS - and that should give a major usability boost. WithStyle handles CSS, and does a generally better display job. A fairly large amount of massage code that I've done to work around Tf limitations will come out as well.

These are fairly major revisions, and will require a fair bit of work on my part. I'm just starting on it now, and the whole thing will require testing before I let it out - even in dev. The end result should be a much better tool though - so we have something cool to look forward to.