I’m testing a new browser: Flock Partly this is because it’s supposed to have a built-in WordPress editor, which I’m trying to use now. From the looks of it, though, it really doesn’t have much beyond bare-bones support, which just makes it good for little notes like this, but not proper posts like I make.
I’ll give the browser a try, but I think I’ll end up falling back to Safari.
This is mainly an expository blath, with occasional high-level excursions, humorous observations, rants, and musings. The main-line exposition should be accessible to the “Generally Interested Lay Audience”, as long as you trace the links back towards the basics. Check the sidebar for specific topics (under “Categories”).
I’m in the process of tweaking some aspects of the site to make it easier to refer back to older topics, so try to make the best of it for now.
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Do you have trouble with paragraph formatting in Safari? When I first started blogging a few months ago, I had some problems with the WordPress editor in Safari, and had to use Firefox instead. Seems to have been cleared up with the latest Safari update, though.
There’s actually a setting in WordPress to use their “rich text” editor or not, and that one seems to kill newlines. The raw text editor never gave me a problem.
I guess I’m not sure what the advantage is of having a browser with a built-in blog editor, since WordPress and other blogging sites provide their own editors.
If it were a proper WordPress editor that had proper WordPress features and could actually show me a proper preview, I could compose offline. Remember that my sole computer is a laptop and I may not always have access to the internet.
Ah, good point. I hadn’t even thought about that.
Eh. I gave Flock a try awhile ago, but I moved back to Firefox, and then to Camino (now that I have a Mac). Flock is Mozilla-based, so it’s pretty much Firefox with a zillion extensions, in my eyes.
By the way, hi. Haha.
Yeah, most extensions are pretty pointless. Safari opens up a lot of real estate for me and then gets the hell out of my way, which I like. I thought I’d give Flock a try, based on some reviews, but it didn’t live up to the hype.
The really tricky part with offline previewing is setting up the LaTeX rendering process. That’s set up on the web server side, so you’d need to be running local installations of a web server, database, and WordPress before even starting to set up the LaTeX plugin.