Supples’ Pub

It’s been quite a while since I compared Word & Windows Live Writer as blog composing platforms, and since I’ve recently dusted off the site I’ve been getting back into the nuances of WLW.

First off - I came across a great list of ‘must have’ plugins for WLW. I don’t need some of them, and video embedding is built-in, but stuff like auto-inserting of Wikipedia links or capturing screenshots from SnagIt (which I use, when they were giving away the old version for free) is quite handy and anyone using WLW should give it a look.

I remembered that since I had last used WLW, I had a plugin that put a button in Firefox to make posting a webpage just a single click. Well that plugin was broken in FF3, until a Google search led me to a MS WLW developer’s blog. (Notice the platform this MS developer is blogging on…) His WLW-specific posts (which are most of them) are quite helpful and insightful to the WLW design process. Back on topic - he posts that the plugin itself DOES work with FF3, but there is a file parameter which flags it as only 2.0 compatible and causes FF3 to puke. Find the simple fix here.
EDIT: And it works!

I guess I should try the new beta version, but I don’t devote enough time to blogging as it is, much less to devote time to messing with beta stuff. You know you’re getting old when you don’t want to spend time messing with new, experimental stuff (or maybe you’re just super busy?).