Mika
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I’m testing offline blog editors
06:39:46 pm on April 7, 2007
I probably won’t have much use for an offline blog editor for my own site, but I can see it being valuable in other scenarios. There’s always some quirks, and I’m just testing out a few to see how they work.
Zoundry: Works okay, both on my own and on some work sites. A little clunky to use.
Windows Live Writer: Works fine on my own, but won’t connect to work stuff because the SSL certificate is self-signed. That’s a bit of a pain. It also wraps stuff like paragraphs in HTML code which I have mixed feelings on.
Neither works all that well with custom tagging systems, although Live Writer allows you to set a custom tag provider. With some hacking, it could be set up to work okay, but still kind of messy.
Overall, the concept is great. Write what you want to without having to worry about having an internet connection and when you find one, just upload all your posts at once. One thing that sucks though, is that none of the ones I’ve played with allow you to write wordpress pages. Anyone have suggestions on what to try out next?
Offline Blog Editing : mika.lepisto.com 9:38 pm on September 6, 2007 | #
[...] Initial impressions are about the same as the last time I tried it. So I’m wondering how it will be after a few weeks of trying it out again. [...]