Windows Live Writer wish list
Submitted by Stephan Walcher on August 26, 2008 – 5:56 pm2 Comments
The Windows Live Writer Team did a great job and provided us a great blogging tool, the Windows Live Writer. I thought it would be a good idea to start a wish list about function you wish to see in a future release of the Windows Live Writer.
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Windows Live Writer Wish List (WLWWL)
- Shortcut Editor
- Microsoft Word spellcheck
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One thing I would love to have is a ‘cancel’ option while WLW is posting, because, no matter how much we proof read, often we only see mistakes after we click Post.
And, of course, a WLW client for Windows Mobile would be fantastic
A feature that allowed for custom tags such as [code] and retains the formatting we apply in the source mode (tabs to make the code more readable).
My site has a custom syntax highlighter which is called like this:
[code lang="xml"]Insert highlighted code here[/code]a small annoyance is that Live Writer does not have a code feature, but a big annoyance is it removes all the formating (tabs, spaces) and makes the source of the post almost human-unreadable.
As a programming blogger I'm forced to write the article in live writer, then add the code snipits later through wordpress's console.
It would be nice if Live writer retained all of the formatting we apply in source mode, including custom tags.