Comments on: Windows Live Writer Beta 2: New Inline Spell Checking & Tables

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:24:09 +0000

I would definitely choose Post2Blog. It has a ton more features, even though at times it seems like it has too many.

I’m actually using Post2Blog on our site.

By: Sridhar Katakam

Sridhar Katakam — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:10:00 +0000

So Ryan, if you were to pick between WLW and Post2Blog, which would you?

And, what? No comment notifications (in your blog) by e-mail?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:51:22 +0000

Ahhh, I guess that makes sense. Thanks for letting us know!

By: BlaiseWow

BlaiseWow — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:15:22 +0000

mmmm i found the problem and i think it may help other users. This week a leaked version of messenger 8.5 was available bt in spanish …. To be able to install all the new betas (messenger, live mail and writer) they need to be in the same language.
repeat after me, never installed leaked beta …

the solution is to erase the folder of messenger and all in program data (hidden folder in vista)and to restart the installation.

By: BlaiseWow

BlaiseWow — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:45:22 +0000

@BlaiseWow: Iâ€™m not sure why that didnâ€™t work for you, maybe you need to run the install as an administrator (by right-clicking on the install program) because it sounds like it wasnâ€™t able to get the proper permissions.

i tried your solution and no luck …. i got a message telling me that live setup have stop working ….. Maybe Vista is to new ?!? :roll:

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:28:44 +0000

Yes, most blog editors do offer some sort of thumbnail feature. We use it here on our site as well, and it is nice because then you can actually choose the size of the thumbnail.

By: Tonino

Tonino — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:07:56 +0000

I keep using the shitty Blogger Editor.
Unfortunately I allow email subscriptions to my blog and if I post with other editors the are not sent automatically.
Also I like to add small images that are automatically linked to the bigger versions. Does Live Writer or any other Editor do this?

By: A Pair of Windows Live Updates » Solo Technology

A Pair of Windows Live Updates » Solo Technology — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:42:48 +0000

[...] Ryan of CyberNetNews has mentioned some XHTML validation concerns. In a comment, I’ve asked for more details to see if there’s something in particular to be watching for. With the previous beta, the only issue I had stumbled over was related to hyperlinked images: They all got atomicselection=”true” added to the link. I’ll be curious to see how this post does in validation after I publish it. [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:27:56 +0000

@Chris: There is a [groups.msn.com] regarding why Live Writer is not XHTML compliant. Also, comparing it to “XHTML Transitional” isn’t exactly what you should do because it is a lot more lenient on the standards (it accepts traditional HTML as okay). The biggest thing is that everything needs to have a closing tag, images, breaks, etc…

I wasn’t trying to bask WLW users at all with that statement, I was just saying that most of the people using the software probably won’t care nor will they know what is/isn’t valid XHTML. Heck, our site doesn’t even validate because I got a little lazy when I finished coding it.

@BlaiseWow: I’m not sure why that didn’t work for you, maybe you need to run the install as an administrator (by right-clicking on the install program) because it sounds like it wasn’t able to get the proper permissions.

By: BlaiseWow

BlaiseWow — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:10:33 +0000

It looks to be a nice new version, I am running Vista business and i was not available to have it install on my pc. The installed stop working just after telling me that it have to modifiy my system for it to be install and after that nothng. Any tough about that ?