NetNewsWire StyleSheet for Reading Newsfeed Items in Context

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NetNewsWire is a great, free, and extensible newsfeed reading client. One of the great features it includes is an infinite supply of stylesheets available to customize the look of the articles you read. NetNewsWire comes with a bunch of its own stylesheets, but you can download more online.

The coolest stylesheet I’ve found is called Ollicle Wittrodt. Most stylesheets grab feed items and convert them into a simpler, uniform format. Ollicle Wittrodt, on the other hand, displays the original page within the NetNewsWire viewing tab. I’ve been using this stylesheet for a few weeks now and am really enjoying looking at articles in their original contexts without having to send the items to Safari.

To enable Ollicle Wittrodt, download it from here, unzip and open it, then tell NetNewsWire to install it. Just select it from the styles menu (bottom-right). You need to enable JavaScript for the stylesheet to work, so open NetNewsWire’s preferences, select the Browsing pane and then the News Items pane, and check “Enable JavaScript.”

Ranchero Software, the company behind NetNewsWire, has a huge list of NetNewsWire stylesheets available here. You can also try making your own stylesheets with a little bit of CSS work, which is at least partially described by Ranchero here, also.