Bloglines Does UI Upgrade Too... To Left Pane
Hot
on the heels of the well-received Google
Reader re-design, I received a tip tonight (thanks Mike Rundle) that Bloglines has also done a
slight re-design. On their blog they
note:
"You might have noticed a few fancy little changes we've made to your feed tree on the left pane today. You'll like them even more when you learn what's behind the scenes!
- We no longer update the entire left pane when the unread or "kept as new" counts change. Now the counts update in place with a fading yellow indicator. The result is a faster, more pleasant way to cruise through your feeds, especially for those quick on the hotkeys.
- We've decreased the time between automatic updates to your unread counts so you don't have to press the "r" hotkey quite so often."
It also appears to be a different typeface and a slightly 'fancier' look. Some nice ajax touches. This is just on the left navigation pane though - the actual reading pane stays the same. It'd be great if the ajax changes could be applied to the whole screen... maybe they're making the right pane next year's upgrade ;-) (kidding)
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I'm liking the changes. It is a bit fancier, cleaner, and the new refresh process is very cool.
Good to see, that bloglines does respond to google reader in a direct competition with a speed of a bird. I think the upgrade is very reasonable.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !
Let's be honest: Bloglines still beats even this new Google Reader and doesn't need to change that fast :)
it makes a HUGE difference in speed. it really has had a significant impact on performance. i am surprised you would scoff at a third of the page not needing to be updated as often...
I wasn't scoffing at the upgrade, no no no. I did have a little dig at the slow rate of upgrades to Bloglines though :-) Most of the blogosphere have been on their case to do UI upgrades for years!
They may be slow in adding new features but the speed issue has been addressed nicely with this upgrade.