Comments on: Blogging Tools Update http://www.justinlloyd.org/17-blogging-tools-update/ A Mastermind's Guide to Personal Development Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:28:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justin Lloyd http://www.justinlloyd.org/17-blogging-tools-update/#comment-30 Justin Lloyd Sat, 02 May 2009 23:56:24 +0000 http://www.justinlloyd.org/blog/2009/03/27/blogging-tools-update/#comment-30 Brandon, overall I am impressed with the newer versions of Windows Live Writer. The earlier versions drove me to distraction. I understand that there are many issues that are out of the control of the development team when interfacing with various flavours of third party software that have poorly documented interfaces. I still do all of my writing and editing in Microsoft Word, and then just copy & paste in to Live Writer for the final markup. Being able to handle other file formats, especially from the Microsoft Office suite would be probably the highest priority feature on my wish list. Thanks for taking the time to read my article and I will be sure to follow the development of Live Writer with interest. Brandon, overall I am impressed with the newer versions of Windows Live Writer. The earlier versions drove me to distraction. I understand that there are many issues that are out of the control of the development team when interfacing with various flavours of third party software that have poorly documented interfaces. I still do all of my writing and editing in Microsoft Word, and then just copy & paste in to Live Writer for the final markup. Being able to handle other file formats, especially from the Microsoft Office suite would be probably the highest priority feature on my wish list. Thanks for taking the time to read my article and I will be sure to follow the development of Live Writer with interest.

]]> By: Brandon Turner [MSFT] http://www.justinlloyd.org/17-blogging-tools-update/#comment-29 Brandon Turner [MSFT] Sat, 02 May 2009 23:49:38 +0000 http://www.justinlloyd.org/blog/2009/03/27/blogging-tools-update/#comment-29 Hello, I am one of he developers of Windows Live Writer. Thank you for reviewing the application, all feedback is valuable to us. Just a few notes. 1) Using the correct styles from your blog is tricky, and really Wordpress is the only blogging service that has well defined classes for things like image alignment and etc... This makes creating the feature very hard to do correctly and simple enough for users that don't understand HTML/CSS to mesh with. Though, it is one of the things I personally feel like we should try and do better. 2) If you select text, and then go to Tools | Options it will give you a dialog box with the word count for the selected text only. As you noted, the word count only updates after 100ms of idle time(ie. no typing). 3) Importing from Word, that is an interesting idea, one I don't think we have thought about before. You can mostly acheive the same thing through Control+Shift+V (aka special paste). Though it would be nice if the feature was more discoverable and allowed importing from a lot of sources, like maybe email as well. 4) General performace is pretty slow in Windows Live Writer. It is one of our weak spots no doubt. We are planning on spending time to fix this for our next release. Once again, thank you for reviewing the application and I am glad it is at least somewhat making blogging eaiser for you! In the future feel free to email me if you have anymore feedback and/or issues. -Brandon Hello,

I am one of he developers of Windows Live Writer. Thank you for reviewing the application, all feedback is valuable to us. Just a few notes.

1) Using the correct styles from your blog is tricky, and really WordPress is the only blogging service that has well defined classes for things like image alignment and etc… This makes creating the feature very hard to do correctly and simple enough for users that don’t understand HTML/CSS to mesh with. Though, it is one of the things I personally feel like we should try and do better.

2) If you select text, and then go to Tools | Options it will give you a dialog box with the word count for the selected text only. As you noted, the word count only updates after 100ms of idle time(ie. no typing).

3) Importing from Word, that is an interesting idea, one I don’t think we have thought about before. You can mostly acheive the same thing through Control+Shift+V (aka special paste). Though it would be nice if the feature was more discoverable and allowed importing from a lot of sources, like maybe email as well.

4) General performace is pretty slow in Windows Live Writer. It is one of our weak spots no doubt. We are planning on spending time to fix this for our next release.

Once again, thank you for reviewing the application and I am glad it is at least somewhat making blogging eaiser for you!

In the future feel free to email me if you have anymore feedback and/or issues.

-Brandon

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