Comments on: Live Writer http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/ What's Next? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:23:57 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2829 Roo Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:45:48 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/#comment-2829 Update: I downloaded the lovely <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=flickr4writer" rel="nofollow">Flickr4Writer plugin</a>. Very good, and a required download if your blogging workflow is anything like mine. Update: I downloaded the lovely Flickr4Writer plugin. Very good, and a required download if your blogging workflow is anything like mine.

]]> By: Torley http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2646 Torley Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:13:03 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/#comment-2646 Hey Ro, I really enjoy using Live Writer too! I'm not sure what the "Live" means... and "Writer" is kinda generic. Originally, I thought they should call it "Windows Blog Processor", haha — but then I learned their vision goes beyond just blogging. I also wish there was a tabbed view (gets too cluttered with all those windows), and that it had a more structured way of sorting and retrieving previous documents. It's REALLY nice how it can copy your blog's aesthetic via CSS — nice self-referential image, reminds me of one of those "infinity mirrors". Looks like there's some bugs with WordPress, including: if you try to set a post to publish in the future, it will never show up, and instead must be scrapped (from the WP admin interface) and posted from scratch. I'm pleased it handles multi-categories well, tho. I'm also looking forward to more plugins! CONTEXT: I previously blogged about it here @ http://torley.com/giving-windows-live-writer-a-spin/ Hey Ro, I really enjoy using Live Writer too! I’m not sure what the “Live” means… and “Writer” is kinda generic. Originally, I thought they should call it “Windows Blog Processor”, haha — but then I learned their vision goes beyond just blogging. I also wish there was a tabbed view (gets too cluttered with all those windows), and that it had a more structured way of sorting and retrieving previous documents.

It’s REALLY nice how it can copy your blog’s aesthetic via CSS — nice self-referential image, reminds me of one of those “infinity mirrors”.

Looks like there’s some bugs with WordPress, including: if you try to set a post to publish in the future, it will never show up, and instead must be scrapped (from the WP admin interface) and posted from scratch. I’m pleased it handles multi-categories well, tho.

I’m also looking forward to more plugins!

CONTEXT: I previously blogged about it here @ http://torley.com/giving-windows-live-writer-a-spin/

]]> By: Roo http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2644 Roo Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:57:03 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/#comment-2644 Andy, you're right about the path tweakability. I had hoped the HTML customisation would be more comprehensive. Ah well. Andy, you’re right about the path tweakability. I had hoped the HTML customisation would be more comprehensive. Ah well.

]]> By: Andrew Ferrier http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2640 Andrew Ferrier Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:53:40 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/#comment-2640 There's some interesting comment from the Economist here on Microsoft's use of the word 'Live', amongst other things: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8550569 There’s some interesting comment from the Economist here on Microsoft’s use of the word ‘Live’, amongst other things:

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8550569

]]> By: andyp http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2638 andyp Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:01:30 +0000 http://rooreynolds.com/2007/01/29/live-writer/#comment-2638 I'm pretty impressed with it, too. To address some of the downsides (barely believing I'm an apologist for a Microsoft product!): I don't think we can really expect them to integrate with e.g. Firefox bookmarks history, so the IE integration is no surprise. There is a Firefox "blog this in writer" plugin, though. I was pretty sure that autosave *was* on by default... at least, I don't remember changing that option. The branding stuff is just blah, really - Windows Live seems to be the equivalent of Google's permanent-beta offerings. The image upload thing - I doubt you can expect that to be tweakable, they seem to be going for the KISS option and limiting the configurability. It doesn't bother me too much, but I guess it could upset some people. Funky image ;-) I’m pretty impressed with it, too. To address some of the downsides (barely believing I’m an apologist for a Microsoft product!):

I don’t think we can really expect them to integrate with e.g. Firefox bookmarks history, so the IE integration is no surprise. There is a Firefox “blog this in writer” plugin, though.

I was pretty sure that autosave *was* on by default… at least, I don’t remember changing that option.

The branding stuff is just blah, really – Windows Live seems to be the equivalent of Google’s permanent-beta offerings.

The image upload thing – I doubt you can expect that to be tweakable, they seem to be going for the KISS option and limiting the configurability. It doesn’t bother me too much, but I guess it could upset some people.

Funky image ;-)

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