Comments on: Testing Word Posting Feature

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:10:11 +0000

Actually, I was suggesting that Wordpress add one of the two into their default setup. I'm kind of surprised they haven't.

Yeah, that would make sense. There are all manner of problems with composing longish posts in the WordPress editor, although that's what I've mostly done. I've tried various external editors and never been happy.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:52:37 +0000

Actually, I was suggesting that Wordpress add one of the two into their default setup. I'm kind of surprised they haven't.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:38:29 +0000

An office suite to write blog posts? Isn't that overkill? Why not just incorporate something like FCKEditor or TinyMCE?

I agree that it would be silly to go out and pay $700 for an office suite for this purpose but most of us already have Word. TinyMCE looks, at first glance at least, like a pain to set up. FCKEditor looks promising enough but, really, it's not clear why downloading and installing and setting it up is any easier than just using one's word processing package.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:30:53 +0000

An office suite to write blog posts? Isn't that overkill? Why not just incorporate something like FCKEditor or TinyMCE?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:49:14 +0000

It's built into Word. All you need to do is set up the login info.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:45:47 +0000

Is this attack in that has to be installed on your server? Or on both ends? I know what I was on the blogspot blog, the Word tack-on was invaluable to me.
I'd like to think what you're describing would also be that way, but it's going to be a couple of years before I get word 2007.