NewsGator 1.2 has
been released! I won’t duplicate the release announcements…here are the
important links:
been released! I won’t duplicate the release announcements…here are the
important links:
Posting support is
available today
for:
available today
for:
- Blogger
- Radio
Userland
- BlogX
- dotnetweblogs.com
- Movable Type
(courtesy Matt Berther)
- EraBlog.NET.
Here are some screen
shots of some of the visual items that have changed. This is only a small
subset of the feature set…and we’re only highlighting changes since
1.1.
shots of some of the visual items that have changed. This is only a small
subset of the feature set…and we’re only highlighting changes since
1.1.
The NewsGator menu
has moved to the toolbar:
has moved to the toolbar:
New post items have
been added to the menu…
been added to the menu…
And of course new
configuration options:
configuration options:
Outlook
auto-preview, which works well with NewsGator, was always hampered by the links
at the top of every post, which would fill up most of the
auto-preview. There is now an option to move the links, for “clean”
auto-preview:
auto-preview, which works well with NewsGator, was always hampered by the links
at the top of every post, which would fill up most of the
auto-preview. There is now an option to move the links, for “clean”
auto-preview:
Prior to Outlook
2003, it was unfortunate in that you could never see the URL that a link was
going to open; NewsGator 1.2 adds tooltips to most links:
2003, it was unfortunate in that you could never see the URL that a link was
going to open; NewsGator 1.2 adds tooltips to most links:
If you like the
NewsPage, you’ll like it even more with inline post
excerpts:
NewsPage, you’ll like it even more with inline post
excerpts:
And also on the
NewsPage, you can now read all posts from the “unread posts” section by
expanding each feed…
NewsPage, you can now read all posts from the “unread posts” section by
expanding each feed…
Enjoy! We look
forward to your feedback and comments.
forward to your feedback and comments.
NewsGator 1.2 has been released! Among the new features, posting support for a number of common blogging infrastructures (including a plugin for Movabletype, created by yours truly). Posting to your blog directly from Outlook… wait no more. Get it here….[more]
If you use NewsGator or haven’t been stuck in a 24-hour
meeting, you already know Greg announced
the release of 1.2 earlier. In fact,…[more]
People who post to their blogs on http://www.dotnetweblogs.com from Newsgator have been breaing RSS Bandit. I realized it’s because their posts contain garbage HTML. What the heck is
If this is your bug I’d appreciate it if you fix it because I’d rather not write workarounds for gunk like that into RSS Bandit.
Thanks. :)
The <o:P> is part of the HTML that the MS Word editor generates, if the user is using that editor (as opposed to the “normal” Outlook editor). We don’t currently remove those tags, as you’ve noticed…
I’m don’t think I’d call it a bug – more an artifact of a wacky HTML editor (Word).
This is a bug because you are spitting out non-conformant (in every sense of the Word) [X]HTML.
Word places xmlns:o=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” at the top of its HTML documents which would be fine if the posts from Newsgator had this namespace declaration. Since they don’t this seems like a bug to me.
Ok, I’ll grant you that it’s probably a bug…I’ll put it on the list.
It’s worth noting, though, that both IE and Netscape can render this ok and without errors. Doesn’t RSS Bandit use IE for rendering?
I convert HTML in content to XHTML so people can better process it with XSLT stylesheets (themes) or other tools (IBlogExtension).
Ah…I see. I actually had to modify one of our plug-ins that generates XHTML to remove these tags as well.
Short-term (within a week), we can modify our posting plug-ins to strip unknown tags like this, along with a couple of other minor fixes in the pipeline.
Longer-term (next release), we can consider removing these tags before they every get to the plug-in, but we’ll have to think through the implications of that.
Really-short-term, this doesn’t solve the immediate problem. I would think you could run across this kind of thing anywhere, you just saw it first in NG-generated posts. Can you modify your HTML-massaging code to eliminate tags with unknown prefixes?
Hate to break in on the conversation-) but as you already know from this morning’s link, I think 1.2 rocks and has brought me back into the fold. One little thing I am noticing, is that the time of post (from Outlook using NG) is off by 3 hours (seems Paciifc time). I have dotnetweblogs set correctly so I am not sure where this value is coming from? I didn’t see any place in NG to change it? Do you know what it is?
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Sam – we use the dotnetweblogs.com “simple blog service” web service. When we call the InsertPost function on that service, we pass DateTime.Now as the “postDate” parameter. So I think it’s probably a problem in the web service…ScottW would be the guy who would know.
Greg – Thanks for this post to supplement the official press release. I missed the great updates to the news page. Excellent! I’ll be starting with the news page in the future. One observation, I like the most recent postings element on the news page, but the posts happened to be from secondary feeds which I read only occasionally. So to save real estate I set the number of recent posts to 0, and was impressed that you gave users the ability to hide the recent posts control. All-around great work!
Brad discovered some bad stuff making it’s way into the RSS feeds of numerous bloggers who use NewsGator. I have to agree with Greg that a major problem is the behaviour of the Microsoft HTML editor embedded in Outlook. I…[more]
Hmm, not sure I ever said the embedded HTML editors were a major problem…just that they were the root cause of some unfortunate markup in some cases. :-)
Dare, the problem we’ve been discussing related to <o:p> and similar prefixed tags should now be taken care of (for blogger, ASPNetWebLog, and Radio, not sure if Matt has this in the MT plug-in yet) as of the latest plug-in update.
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