NetNewsWire Pro public beta
I'm posting this entry from the much-anticipated NetNewsWire Pro public beta released today.
This 1.0b1 release of NetNewsWire pro includes a weblog editor, notepad, Find command, AppleScript support, and more.
Good to see the RSD support -- it makes it quick and easy to post to one's weblog.
I'm still trying to see if there is a new option to display the titles and descriptions in the manner proposed by Jason in August.
The weblog editor is intuitive and simple to use, though I have one small peeve. While revising this post, I've clicked on an icon for an older post of mine and lost my changes. I'm not sure why I thought it would save my changes, but I did. Perhaps I just shouldn't be clicking around nervously.
I do like the "Preview" feature very much.
I live in NetNewsWire so I think I could get used to posting via its weblog editor rather than the Movable Type web interface. However, I need the ability to assign categories and at the present this is impossible since the Movable Type category method (numeric id versus name) is not supported in either the Blogger or MetaWeblog APIs.
Still, this is going to be an interesting environment to explore and it's great to see the work that has gone into the program.
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I simply doesn't understand this extra programs, that does the same as MovableType or other blog programs. NetNewsWireLite is cool, but why this extra bloat, when MT does the job?
Ben, does the current release of MT support RSS 2.0? Am using FeedReader on the PC for viewing XML feeds and Eric Meyer's weblog (which is an RSS 2.0 XML feed) seems to include categories in it. I get a date, headline and topic in the feed.
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/rss20.xml
Movable Type's RSS 1.0 feed has the Dublin Core element <dc:subject><$MTEntryCategory$></dc:subject>. Perhaps FeedReader ignores it?
<rdf:Property rdf:about="&dcns;subject">
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en-US">Subject and Keywords</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:comment xml:lang="en-US">The topic of the content of the resource.
</rdfs:comment>
<dc:description xml:lang="en-US">Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases or classification codes that describe a topic of the resource. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme.
<rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="&dcns;"/>
<dcterms:issued>1999-07-02
</rdf:Property>