Re: tried out Mozblog v6.17

Hey Mike,

thanks for your help,

It all works now. (Graphic corruption also fixed) - blog now shows up in 
the dropdownlist - no idea why it didn't show up previously.

A couple of minor UI tweak suggestions:

'Recent Posts' list currently defaults on installation to oldest-at-top of 
list, meaning that clicking on 'new' may appear to do nothing (try it out 
on that setting.).  It would help if it defaulted to newest-at-top, so that 
clicking 'new' will mean that the newly created post is also the currently 
selected one.

Metadata - first few words of post could be automatically assigned to 'Post 
Title' tag, automatically appearing in 'Title' column of the Recent Posts 
pane.  Helps to identify posts in that list with less effort.

I'm really impressed with the utility overall - will see if it actually 
gets me blogging away :)

cheers,

tomato

At 00:31 08/04/03 +1000, you wrote:

>Yes the documentation is pretty much out of date. Sorry we couldn't kept 
>this up to date, we'll get to it when we have more time. Heres a short 
>step to publish thing:
>
>1. select the right channel from the drop down list to the right. It 
>should list all the blogs you have entered.
>2. Click on "new" to create a new post
>3. Type something in there
>4. Publish
>
>If the above step still can't get you going please let me know.
>
>ps. a temporary solution to get rid of the graphic corruption is to goto 
>edit->preference->appearance->show toolbar as and select "picture only". 
>We havent worked out why the graphic corruption happens.
>
>Regards
>
>mike
>
>Tomato wrote:
>>Hiya,
>>First time using Mozblog :)
>>Unfortunately it doesn't work :(
>>Gory details:
>>System: win98, Moz 1.3, via dialup.
>>1) Downloaded http://mozblog.mozdev.org/nsXmlRpcClient.js and put it into 
>>the components folder.  Overwrote the old file.  Noted with some 
>>trepidation that the new file is smaller than the old one.
>>2) Downloaded Mozblog6.17 via the 'click to install' button on the 
>>Mozblog home page.
>>3) Restarted Mozilla.
>>Noted that the 'back', 'foward', 'reload' buttons on the Mozilla tool bar 
>>now have little junk lines between them ( I use the 'Modern' skin)
>>Not too happy.  Can send screen dump if you want.
>>Spent a while searching for how to actually turn on Mozblog.  Stumbled 
>>upon the View/show/hide menu item. This isn't listed on the documentation page.
>>the 'Discuss' app is absolutely nowhere to be seen.  This makes much of 
>>the documentation page irrelevant.
>>Opened account on Blogspot.com.  Gave uid/pw to MozBlog, and it seemed to 
>>connect and get all my details automatically 'found account', 'saving 
>>details'  - well done - much better than the procedure actually listed on 
>>the documentation page :)
>>Opened MozBlog tool bar and it looks lovely, really nice :)
>>Entered sample text, clicked 'publish' but nothing happens :(
>>Taking the menu items on the Mozblog pane one by one:
>>'MozBlog'  Does nothing. Doesn't take me to any of the items on the 
>>pop-down menu.
>>'Edit' Grayed out.
>>'Publish' - does nothing.
>>'Show/hide Format Toolbar' - works perfectly.
>>'Go' - gives me 'The connection was refused while attempting to click to 
>>localhost' error message.
>>'Synchronize' - does nothing.
>>'Local Notes' - does nothing.  (I've already specified a local disk save 
>>folder)
>>What am I doing wrong?
>>Thanks,
>>Tomato
>>
>>
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