I was searching for a blogging tool which can be used for off line editing of the posts and finally put it on to blogger. This way whenever I am browsing I can take notes and turn them into blogs later on. There is always a backup of the post and if you are shifting from one blog provider to another you can post from the local archive. I got the list of linux based off line blog editors from Andrea's Blog
When I tried to use bleezer java threw exception. May be it does not work with gnu java. Gnome-blog-poster (Picure on the right) was pretty much rudimentary editing options for changing the font size and including the link. I could not try out Drivel as it did not connect to Blogger 2.0. It provides option to post to livejournal as well.
Next I tried installing Performancing
when I tried for the first time blogger was throwing parsing exception later i could post the same content. ( This time I faced the same issue it was due to img tag that was being and I had include that in embed tag)
What is available
What is badly needed
While writing this post twice I lost the content as once by mistake i clicked on clear content (There was no warning) and once i clicked on the history and both times I lost whatever was unsaved content without warning. Warning is necessary before changing but auto save will be really nice !
I also tried to see the trends about the performancing. Here is what is got from technorati
Posts that contain Performancing per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!
But this may not be an indicator of buzz around performancing blog editor because performancing also owns other things such as metrics and advertising as well. By default at the end of the post, performancing puts link to indicate created through performancing. When I searched technorati for performancing all the posts containing these wording - "powered by performancing" showed up though it may not be a post on performancing. So can this be an indicator to show how many people use this tool ? That may not be the case becuase all may not be posting daily. Otherwise it would have 200-300 people posting using performancing which I feel is very less. (Note : the similar search on Google Blog search provided better results which had relevant posts on Performancing)
The picture provided by blogpulse was entirely different with a wide fluctuations
Overall performancing is good offline blog editor when it comes to bloggers on linux !
Next I tried installing Performancing
when I tried for the first time blogger was throwing parsing exception later i could post the same content. ( This time I faced the same issue it was due to img tag that was being and I had include that in embed tag)
What is available
It provides the most used options(image on right side with the options) for editing- Post can be draft or published directly
- It saves a history of the posts and there can be notes which can be converted to posts at a later point.
- Post can be bookmarked at delicious
- Can include Technorati tags. But as Blogger 2.0 supporting technorati tags need not be inserted explicitly. Read more
- One can edit HTML and preview
- Categories can be managed in similiar fashion to wordpress
- Blogger is yet to support APIs for posting images. So images can not be uploaded. If you need to post a image, blog has to be posted as draft and then edit and post it.
- I did not know that to use trackbacks you will have to use some tools. Performancing allows to add trackbacks. I got Shai's site to test the trackbacks but it did not get reflected in her blog. not sure if it was because of some sort moderation on trackbacks. If this works this would be one of the features that is not available when you use blogger editor.
What is badly needed
While writing this post twice I lost the content as once by mistake i clicked on clear content (There was no warning) and once i clicked on the history and both times I lost whatever was unsaved content without warning. Warning is necessary before changing but auto save will be really nice !
I also tried to see the trends about the performancing. Here is what is got from technorati
Posts that contain Performancing per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!
But this may not be an indicator of buzz around performancing blog editor because performancing also owns other things such as metrics and advertising as well. By default at the end of the post, performancing puts link to indicate created through performancing. When I searched technorati for performancing all the posts containing these wording - "powered by performancing" showed up though it may not be a post on performancing. So can this be an indicator to show how many people use this tool ? That may not be the case becuase all may not be posting daily. Otherwise it would have 200-300 people posting using performancing which I feel is very less. (Note : the similar search on Google Blog search provided better results which had relevant posts on Performancing)
The picture provided by blogpulse was entirely different with a wide fluctuations
Overall performancing is good offline blog editor when it comes to bloggers on linux !
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