Drifting away from the Flock
Let me be a dissenting voice in the choir of webloggers praising the possibilities of Flock.
For those of you unfamiliair with it: Flock is a Firefox browser, with some extra possibilities for webloggers, Flickr-users, and Del.icio.us-sharers. That are three buzzwords in one sentence, not counting Firefox. Flock is aiming to appeal to the avant-garde of web users, the ones in the know, the happy view.
Most important feature for me was the weblog interface, because the backoffice of this weblog is more primitive than I like. I never look forward to use it.
Flock doesn’t offer a lot though [see illustration above]
So, once again, these words are posted from w.Bloggar. A stand alone client for posting on weblogs that have an xmlrpc-interface [the same trick Flock uses]. w.Bloggar has a built-in FTP-client for uploading pictures, a spell check, the possibility to use templates, and some keyboard short-cuts for coding.
The only drawback to w.Bloggar is that it requires Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for its previews. And I hate that program so much, I even have bought other software to get rid off it on most of my computers. On those I use Zempt for weblogging, though that’s no longer updated anymore.
w.Bloggar is much better than Flock. Even Zempt is better than Flock. Combine either of these two with Firefox or Opera, and I don’t even see the need for yet another program. Bye, Flock.
[x]#1483 fan vrijdag 21 oktober 2005 @ 23:47:54
