Comments on: Windows Live Writer: Really Nice Offline Blogging Software

By: Tim Hicks

Tim Hicks — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:28:28 +0000

Jon,

I tried trackbacking this post, but I’m not sure it worked. I posted a reply @ http://quills.sitefusion.co.uk/blog/archive/2007/12/05/time-to-implement-metaweblogapi-newmediaobject

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:30:33 +0000

AtomPub: good stuff. It’s nice to see Microsoft releasing a product that supports the latest-and-greatest open standards! Thanks, Bonnie!

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:18:32 +0000

FYI–Writer also supports the Atom protocol as of this latest release You can read details of our support here: http://jcheng.wordpress.com/
Bonnie [MSFT]

By: Sean Gillies

Sean Gillies — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:59:52 +0000

Jon, this is the future of blogging APIs: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023

By: Duncan Booth

Duncan Booth — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:50:05 +0000

Great idea. Live writer supports the MetaWeblog api which is xml-rpc based, so it shouldn’t be at all hard to do a Plone product to implement metaweblog and then generate the appropriate xml configuration files that live writer wants. You would have some pretty severe limitations on the fields you could set and I guess a single target folder for a ‘blog’.

By: Matthew Wilkes

Matthew Wilkes — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:06:10 +0000

Maybe we can with Quills. Quills supports a widely used protocol that may well work with Windows Live Writer, but pbugni, tomster and I discussed moving to AtomPub at one of the BoFs at the last conference. The general consensus was that it would be a Good Thing, especially considering the next version of word will have these features built in.

A "save to plone" button would be rather special.