Windows Live Writer, Firescribe, and WordPress Default
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Over the past few weeks the default posting area for WordPress has had its moments when the default screen has not been coming up correctly. In speaking with two of my fellow Gnomies, the oracle aka Marc and dabrace1984 aka Doug, I have decided to try Windows Live Writer in addition to Firescribe and the default WP posting software [when it is working].
I have been using Firescribe for over a week, maybe 10 days or so, and for the most part it works well. Firescribe is a plugin writer for the Firefox browser. It contains many of the standard options including a quote block for quoted text. But there is one minor issue. Sometimes the blocking doesn’t work correctly and when published I have noticed my text incorrectly spaced.
So today I downloaded Windows Live Writer and also found a plugin for the Firefox browser called Blog This. Basically it is a Blog This button on the toolbar that opens up Live Writer. I posted my first article using Live Writer and again experienced problems with the block quote. One paragraph worked fine but the next did not. After I published the article I was able to open the article in the default WP section and corrected the post.
So this week and next I will be playing with all three blog tools and see which works the best. I am also hopeful that WP has corrected the default posting tool since this morning it appears to be working. 
Comments welcome.
3 Comments
the oracle
April 3rd, 2008
at 6:09am
I have never had any problems with quoted text, through several revisions, with Live Writer. There are annoyances, like the need to hit an extra carriage return to end the quote block, but since that has never been changed, I assume that is the correct behavior. Is this what you are experiencing? Since you mention that the Firefox plug-in works essentially the same way, I would conclude that the ‘powers that be’ wish it to act that way, no matter how much we don’t like it.
This reminds me of the default line movement beahvior, when editing, of Word, which I personally hate, as it is completely counterintuitive - I long for the days of WordStar, both for the key combinations and the behavior of the editor, but I don’t think it will be coming back any time soon.
Ron Schenone
April 3rd, 2008
at 7:21am
Hi Marc,
That could explain why the quote block didn’t work correctly in LW. But I also had the problem with FireScribe using quote blocks that expanded the text. See here:
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/04/02/will-you-buy-a-mid-intel-thinks-you-will/
It is like the quote is double spaced.
I’ll keep playing with LW & FireScribe awhile longer.
Thanks for stopping by. Ron
toshiro
July 29th, 2008
at 10:22pm
When Firescribe which I can contribute an article to from a browser is convenient, I who am a Mac user think.
Firescribe is usable with both Mac/win.
But I am interested recently because I can do it to plug in development in C# if it is WLW.
Because even Word2008 is made recently if I contribute an article.