Comments on: Short Rant on the New Typepad Editor

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:09:32 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Susan

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By: Hector Owen

Hector Owen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:00:59 +0000

Bob Smith, re blogger blockquote: It’s the quote marks in the icon bar at the top of the edit window, between bulleted list and spellcheck. I use it all the time. Hope this helps.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:14:50 +0000

Google’s (blogspot’s) editor doesn’t have blockquote either. I think they used to have it, because I remember using it.

By: Dave Halliday

Dave Halliday — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:12:09 +0000

I use Movable Type so not really familiar with Typepad.

That being said, you might want to check out ieSpell

http://www.iespell.com/

You right click on any web form window and the option to spell check is there on the popup menu.

Very fast, nice and free for personal use.

By: John Moore

John Moore — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:37:31 +0000

I used to use typepad. Converted to WordPress. In both cases, on my own web site (not a blogging service).

I'm happy with WP. It gets the job done.

By: DrWeb

DrWeb — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:22:09 +0000

Agreed.. it's a lousy editor, and for me, it's broken most of my use of Quickpost - my primary method of posting. The editing to fix it so it matches my blog style - even with my CSS trying hard, is a nightmare. I add in blockquote, and it tries to fix how that works. I have to remove

and

from the editor "trying" to help.
I don't know what to do, maybe change to another blog platform.

Best,
DrWeb

By: SunSword

SunSword — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:12:41 +0000

Welcome to the consequences of “outsourcing”. Yes. The poor suckers that did this probably really DIDN’T have a grasp of 20 years of blogging. Because they just got jammed through some Indian techno-school, and as “freshers” are the cheapest meat on the market. So they got hired to do the work. They probably hard-coded items that should be variables, hard coded data structures rather than doing dynamic memory allocation so we will get to experience unexplained “crashes”, and yes they didn’t think through any consequences at all. But heck — none of the folks that produced this build still work there — programmers change jobs after every “job” or even heck every WEEK in India.

But hey. They are only $20/day.

By: T J Sawyer

T J Sawyer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:57:52 +0000

Best yet, it is clear evidence that someone is writing a text editor from scratch. It has only been a bit over twenty years since Information Engineering, Object-Oriented Development and a bundle of other alleged innovations have promised us “reusable code”. You will soon be able to pluck useful modules from libraries of code and embed them…