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One of those light blogging days because writing about my original plan to make a blogging tool (plus a Blogger glitch here and there) got me thinking about it again.
Part of the reason I stopped working on it was the user interface I built wasn't so great… I made it before I did any real writing in this thing and it turns out I use it slightly differently than I thought I would. And a couple of wish-list things occurred to me as well. So I've been working all day on it. I was less ambitious with the underpinnings (I had database abstraction in mind—it's not abstracted yet but I designed it so I won't have to start from scratch if I go there) and more ambitious with the UI. Once I gave up on wysiwyg it moved at a reasonable pace.
I didn't change the underlying tables, so the templating system ideas I had will still work. That leaves the FTP functionality and a little clean up of edit field labels, and I'll have something I can actually use.
My intent, if I follow through this time, is to automatically ping Weblogs.com, and possibly act as a front end for the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs. And I just downloaded the code to implement spell checking with the editor component I've settled on.
It's been a good day.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/7/2003 08:56:32 PM |
Posted by P6 at June 7, 2003 08:56 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/690