At the moment, by preferred blogging software is w.bloggar. In all fairness, I though the project had been abandoned, as it hadn’t been active between August 2005 and March 2006. Due to this, I had stopped checking for updates until I read Sarah’s post on a piece of blogware, which I don’t respect as one of their employees spammed this blog, called Qumana. For some reason, this reminded me to check for updates.
To be frank, I was amazed to see there had been numerous updates in March. The two main ones were support for MSN Spaces and an optional Mozilla-powered preview!
Like most programs, w.bloggar uses/used an Internet Explorer-powered preview, the reason for that been it’s ease to integrate in Visual Studio applications. However, a new version of w.bloggar (which is 4.4MB bigger than the IE version) uses the gecko and the Mozilla ActiveX control to give a much smoother Mozilla-powered preview.
With the IE preview, it often took time to load the preview; now it’s instant. The downside is that w.bloggar (any version) doesn’t work on any non-Windows OS - though that’s not a problem for me.
This is one cool Program. Thanks for the heads up Joe.
Cool! I will have to check that out. I was disappointed when you said you got spammed by the Quamana folks…that’s so lame.
[...] I first heard about w.bloggar after reading this post at Webby’s World about a version of w.bloggar using the Mozilla Agent to create previews. In all fairness, I though the project had been abandoned, as it hadn’t been active between August 2005 and March 2006…To be frank, I was amazed to see there had been numerous updates in March. The two main ones were support for MSN Spaces and an optional Mozilla-powered preview! [...]