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I’ve released a new open source developer tool for Leopard called HTTP Client.

HTTP Client is a debugger tool for HTTP messages. The app allows you to graphically create, save, and reopen complex HTTP requests and view the raw request and response details.

HTTP Client is open source, and the SVN repo can be accessed from the Project Kenai page.

Check out the screencast on Vidder for more details.

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Hi all, from here on out, I’ll be posting all Fluid-related news on the shiny new Fluid Blog.

Fluid user Colin Sproule posts a totally badass screencast (using my favorite screencasting app, ScreenFlow) showing how to setup the Fluid Thumbnail Plug-in with Muxtape, the hottest music sharing site on the web.

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Muxtape: social webapp for sharing music playlists. Fluid: Mac desktop app for creating site-specific browsers with coverflow browsing.

Put em together, and here’s what you get. Hawt!

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Fluid 0.8.9 is out with the new Fluid Thumbnail Plug-in bundled.

Rather than try to explain it… just watch.

• Mathew Gertner of Mozilla returns as guest blogger for TechCrunch and further discusses Fluid, Prism, Bubbles, Air and Bridging Desktop and Web Applications.
• Jeremy Johnstone of the Yahoo! Messenger team posts a Userscript, screencast, and tutorial on how to use Fluid with Yahoo’s web-based Messenger app. Looks like Jeremy also uses my preferred screencast app, Screenflow.
• RailsJedi explains how to setup a Fluid SSB for browsing the Ruby on Rails documentation via NoobKit and RailsBrain. Oh… and I can tell by the screenshots, that jacques is a fellow fan of the amazing image-sharing/image-annotating app/site Skitch.
• The folks from the popular, super-sexy Git-hosting website GitHub post a very cool Icon for use with a Fluid/GitHub SSB.

Fluid 0.8.8 is out with a few bug fixes/small improvements. This release improves support for Gmail and Google Apps for your Domain SSBs and also
improves support for VoiceOver with Fluid SSBs (although there’s still more work to be done in that deptartment).

Important note: if you were experiencing any weirdness in your Gmail or GAFYD SSBs since the 0.8.7 release yesterday, in order to get the fixes from this update you must:

1. Delete your old Gmail or GAFYD SSB.
2. Delete the prefs for that SSB. Something like: ~/Library/Preferences/com.fluidapp.FluidIstance.<what-you-named-your-ssb>.plist
3. Install 0.8.8.
4. Recreate your Gmail or GAFYD SSB with 0.8.8.

A big thanks to Jamie Kahn Genet for his wonderful help improving GAFYD support in Fluid.

Fluid 0.8.7 is out, with two major features:

1. URL Whitelists and Blacklists for allowing/disallowing browsing to matched URL patterns.
2. Custom User-Agent strings. Choose from popular presets, our provide your own.

The whitelist feature is located in the Preference Window under the “Advanced” pane, while the User-Agent feature is located in each SSB’s Application menu in the main menu.

The whitelist feature is actually really huge for Fluid. This allows so much more flexibility in making SSBs “just work” out of the box, as well as offering the “pro” user tons of power in specifying what webapps she wants her SSB to handle.

How do whitelists work? Fluid SSBs are targeted browsers that only browse the “home website” you provide when you create them. Previously, Fluid would just take a gander at the “Home URL” you provided for your SSB, and try to make educated guesses about what subsequent URLs were part of the same URL domain or broader website/webapp. If you browse to a page that is outside this URL domain or website, Fluid kicks you out to the system default web browser. However, It’s inevitable that Fluid will occasionally be wrong when guessing.

Whitelists allow me to add more special cases out of the box for more websites more easily. But more importantly, the give the end user the power to fix any problem they encounter, and let their SSB know exactly what they consider part of their webapp.