RapidMetaBlog Future Direction.
So I've been getting a lot of emails asking for RapidMetaBlog to support other blogging APIs, and so I'm thinking about doing a v2.0 that supports blog servers that don't do the MetaWeblog API. If you have any other suggestions for features or interface, feel free to leave some comments.
Been nice to see a bunch of links come up in Google about it, and since I put it on the Apple Dashboard Downloads page, there has been a lot more people downloading it.
So far I'm definitely planning to add:
- Authenticated Proxy support.
- non-Aqua scrollbars.
- WYSIWIG like editing. (would people prefer an option to compose in straight HTML?)
- Movable Type support
and I'm thinking about adding stuff like:
- editing posts.
- deleting posts.
but I'm not sure whether that starts to go against the whole point of Dashboard… I have been working on a fully featured blog editor like the very very excellent ecto, but with more Tiger Weblog Server specific features, like the ability to actually have the preview look just like your actual post.
Anyway, if people have suggestions, feel free to fire away… I've trackbacked a couple of sites that are commenting on this and some who are still hosting old versions, so hopefully people will get up to date on their versions and some of you who are users will get this…
My aim is always going to be to support blojsom and thus Tiger Weblog Server primarily. A few people have asked for the ability to post an entry in multiple categories, but blojsom doesn't really work that way, so that's probably unlikely to happen, plus I can't think of a nice interface way of doing that.
Oh, and I would like to do localized versions, as there are a few Germans and Japanese using it. If anyone wants to help out with that, just send me an email.
January 10th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Just discovered your excellent widget, thanks for the elbow grease. Three small suggestions:
- the preview pane doesn’t show paragraph formatting, which makes it harder to read. If I hit return twice, it’d be lovely if the preview would show me an empty line in there.
- being able to change the test size in the entry field and preview would be sweet.
- a way to select multiple categories, like the checkboxes in WordPress, would also rock.
Thanks again!