Windows Live Writer

Hey Chris,
I’ve got a big review of Windows Live Writer up at LiveSide: http://www.liveside.net/comments.php?catid=2&shownews=374

Also, I did an exclusive interview with J.J. Allaire, the Architect on the team: http://www.liveside.net/comments.php?catid=5&shownews=375

I’ve been using Performancing for Firefox for a while now:

http://performancing.com/firefox

Pretty happy with it for simple posting. I could use a couple more hotkeys and also an easy image thumbnailer, but other than that it’s been real nice.

I’m pretty sure the Shuttle (http://brokenkode.com/shuttle) developer has been added to the WordPress core developers line-up, and we should see the WordPress admin panel changing very soon.

I’m still happy with BlogDesk myself. Windows only, though.

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Been trying it out for a couple weeks internally and so far really good (FYI – I am a softie). Definitely a mark improvement over using the Wordpress GUI as well as my old way of writing within Notepad and pasting it into Wordpress.

Chris, Tell Ponzi I have a Vox invite with her name on it.

(Everyone else, this is only one invite, so please don’t waste my time and yours asking for what isn’t going to happen.)

The Windows Live Writer folks did a nice job. Also check out RocketPost, http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost. It’s far more advanced than Writer, and there’s a free version. (I designed it.)

[...] Thanks to Chris, I stumbled upon Windows Live Writer. Till date, I’ve used a variety of blogging clients like wbloggar, ecto, Performancing for Firefox (the current one) and almost everything else that supports the Metaweblog API. And I have to say I am quite impressed. The only weak point I can see is that it does not allow easy Technorati tagging like how Performancing does. Now, for the positives: [...]

[...] Windows Live Writer has the features and capabilities of a program you would expect to see bundled in the next version of MS Office. I really think other companies can learn from this product - and they need to. Windows Live Writer can quite possibly put a company like Qumana out of business, especially when Writer is currently being offered for free. With the optional toolbar for Internet Explorer, Writer really creates a well-rounded blogging experience. However, I came to a completely different conclusion than Chris, who cited it as program built on the slow .NET platform, did. [...]

Thanks Chris, I used it this morning. From reading this post to posting my 1st post with it on Mobility Site took 5 minutes! I use Movable Type.

Come on Chris you know Ponzi will like Q better. Lorraine does!

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Just downloaded the program and I think it is still miles ahead compared to the other desktop clients, both Mac and Windows, out there.

WLW doesn’t even support Wordpress properly, although it claims to. It inserts extraneous ‘p’ and ‘/p’ tags into the post, with the end result that the post will have a blank line at the top when you publish it. It’s Frontpage all over again!

David, I’m from the Windows Live Writer team and wanted to check on your comment about extra ‘p’ tags. Wordpress is one of the primary blogging platforms Writer supports and we tried very hard to make sure no extra whitespace is inserted. I just created a post on Wordpress.com and am not seeing any leading ‘p’ tags:
http://swashbuckler.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/test-post-2/

Which version of Wordpress are you using? Also, did the editor show there was leading line ‘p’ at beginning post body in the editor before you posted, or are you saying it got added during the publish? Writer does not automatically strip any whitespace that is inserted at the beginning of the post in the editor, but it does strip whitespace from the end of the post when publishing. If you used the BlogThis button to start your post, it will automatically insert a leading paragraph element so that you have a place to insert your own commentary outside of the predefined blockquote. Unfortunately, if Writer doesn’t automatically remove that placehold paragraph if you don’t enter anything into it.

[...] I’ve played with it a bit - it enables individuals to publish to a variety of blogging platforms without having to login and use their interface. The spell check is nice (though it doesn’t recognize the word “blogging” - explain that for a blogging tool?!?). I haven’t tried the image feature yet…Overall,  not a bad first attempt (I’ll continue playing with it for a while), though not everyone is impressed. Posted by gsiemens at August 15, 2006 02:29 PM | TrackBack [...]

Writer has the write potential but……

Okay, pardon the crap pun in the title, but I’ve been playing with Windows Live Writer and I must say that unlike Ed Bott (who positively adores it) I’ve got mixed feelings about this Microsoft effort.
I know this is beta software, so I&#82…

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Calling the .NET framework slow is to exaggerate. A .NET application may not be as fast as native Win32 one, but a lot of improvements have happened since the release of version 2.0.

If you regularly insert code (C#, XML, VB etc.), then you might find my code formatter plugin of interest. Please take a look at http://stevedunns.blogspot.com/2006/08/code-formatter-plugin-for-windows-live.html
Cheers, Steve.

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[...] Wow! So, I’d been doing a lot of reading and researching on Windows Live Writer. One of my primary complaints was this: No plugin or support for Ultimate Tag Warrior. Guess what? I was wrong. The Download Squad was wrong too (sort of). Chris Pirillo likes Ultimate Tag Warrior, but wasn’t crazy about Writer. Maybe this will change his mind? [...]

I found i nice review here:
http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/08/14/review-windows-live-writer-beta