I haven't tried it out yet (just about to), but I thought
I'd cross-post
from our forums this post about a blogging extension that's
under
development by community member mctones.
http://www.flock.com/forums/hacks/blogging-extension
The post:
I am working on an extension for the Danphe version of
Flock, and with
the forthcoming release of Cormarant in which it will work,
I would like
to kindly ask those that are testing the cormarant builds to
have a look
at this extension and offer any suggestions.
The extension is hard to sum up as it is a large collection
of different
tools/functions but here goes:
Text Selection: Select text with your mouse and up pops a
contextual
toolbar just below the text selection. This will stay in a
semi-opaque
state for 1.5 seconds unless your mouse over it. Common text
operations
are contained within, including a quicklink textbox (type
the url then
hit return). Mouseout of the contextual toolbar and it will
disappear.
Middle click: A small contextual toolbar for non-text
selection based
operations.
Link click: If you have already inserted a link, click on it
to bring up
a small link contextual toolbar, to either unlink it, alter
the url or
open up the Link Plus dialog (alter many attributes of a
link, not just
it's url).
Image click: Click on an image to bring up the Image Plus
dialog, which
allows you to alter many attributes of an image. Please note
that this
is at present in the blog sidebar as I have not yet had a
chance to move
it into a popup dialog.
Preset Markup: This sidebar that allows you to create,
store, edit and
apply preset html markup to highlighted text, such as css
styles or html
element attributes (id, class, title). This is particulalrly
useful for
improving productivity for microformat creation.
Tag Plus: This sidebar allows you to create, store, edit and
insert tags
the way you want them, not as supplied by default by flock.
The tags,
which also include Ultimate Tag Warrior insertion, will be
inserted into
the bottom of your blog post before publishing, allowing a
better
appraisal of your final post.
Other functionality includes tag suggestions based on your
blog content
and 8 different Blogged With Flock options, again these are
inserted
into the bottom of your post.
Quikmaps: This sidebar allows you to insert a dynamic google
map into
your blog post, whereby you can change many of its
attributes such as
centre location, map type, controls, zoom etc. If you want
to add
markers or already have a quikmap, then go to quikmaps and
set up your
map and use the quikmap id.
Also a dictionary/thesaurus and dedicated hCalendar
sidebar.
In addition to all of the above, a number of toolbar buttons
have been
supplied, including blockquote, code, smilies and websnapr
image link
insertion (if you have not yet noticed, you can right click
and
customize the cormarant blog toolbar).
I should point out this is still in development and still
needswork, but
with your help can iron out any issues before cormarant is
officially
released.
Please visit http://flock.spatialvie
ws.com and go get 'Blogplus'
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