I like these things 
In either tool if I click on View I'm taken to the page which, if it's already frontmost in my browser, simply reloads. Elegant.
When I click View I go to the article which I've selected. Nice. Clearly we're going to want a way to manage those items beyond what the workspace offers once we've made a few more posts.
Save appears to work similarly in the WP tool.
The built-in blogger is freakin' fast!
But not these
Bummer. Indenting beyond the first level generates piles and piles of table tags.
Oh damn. If I add graphics using the WP browser UI and then, say, change the category with the WP Tool and hit save, I blow away the graphics I just added. At least I think that's what happened.
Lack of feedback from objects in outlines. What I mean is, if an object in an outline has nested items, it should always have a black triangle. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't found the pattern yet. But look at your Buddies list for example. Also, when I "Add link" from the right-click menu there's no indication that the object is a live link. In Radio we would see a special icon. No it looks like any old triangle.
Notes on the WordPress Tool and OPML's Built-in Blogging
quotes
| | quotes which appear within a paragraph behave normally |
| | if I indent a line and put quotes around that line, the quotes will not show up unless I /"comment them out/" |
| | there's an example here. I had to comment out the quotes around "But my wife . . ." |
| | it appears that OPML's own blogging tool behaves differently |
glossary
| | using the WordPress Tool both links are hotted up. Clearly this tool uses user.html.glossary. (Please ignore the extra quote sign. That was a mistake I made when entering the glossary item.) |
| | Dave is a built-in glossary item |
| | "Donovan" is one I added myself |
| | Dave is hot but Donovan is not (I'm referring to the links!) My guess is that the built-in OPML tool is looking elsewhere for glossary entries. |
Linking
| | If I point from one of my articles to another of my articles in WP it shows up as a comment in the latter article. OK. I get it. |
| | So, I'd like to be able to extract just the link from an article in the workspace. Right now I double click on the link, go to my browser, copy the link and return to the workspace. Why can't I just right click on a title in workspace to get the URL? "Info" looked promising but does nothing on my system. |
| | I'm sure this is very simple for some clever person to do. Or perhaps it's been done and I don't know how to access it. |
wordPress Weirdness
| | One has to be careful when editing with the wordPress tool. On a couple of occassions I've done something (I don't know what yet, moved to quickly?) which resulted in one entry overwriting data on WordPress but keeping the filename of the previoius entry. |
| | Hmmm, it worked previously but now when I select "Get Catergories" the About OPML window flies forward, it tells me it's receiving data, but I don't see anything. |
| | My mistake! I see now what happens. It updates the right-click menu. I was confusing this with the built-in blogger's behavious where an outline listing your categories pops up. |
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