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by James Robertson.
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I've ignored Enclosures for about a year now. With 3.2 of Bf just shipped, I figured I'd have a look at them again. I added simple support for enclosures this evening. What does that mean? It means that, if an item has an enclosure, then you'll see a clickable link in the item pane. I decided against the whole background/overnight downloading thing for a couple of reasons
complexity
available bandwidth
I think most people using an aggregator, at least at this point, are on a high speed connection - so the time savings for downloading overnight are vanishingly small. Additionally, I didn't really want to have an extra (easily forgettable by users) directory of large content that would build up - building the software infrastructure for managing that just doesn't seem reasonable to me at the moment. Heck, maybe I'm wrong - if I am, Bf users will tell me. In the meantime, just providing a link to the content in the item pane is the simplest thing that could possibly work
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