[blogBuddy-devel] Changes to 0.5 features

[S. R. O. <sro...@ho...>]

Hi guys and a happy new year.

I apologize for not being more active recently but my hard drive crashed, 
Delphi broke on me and for a while I could not get SourceForge's CVS 
repository to give me back the blogBuddy code. But no worries, everything is 
fine now.

I'm not sure if I have said enough about the blogBuddy Quick Tags. The idea 
with quick tags is to save a (quite a) few keystrokes when keying in posts. 
An idea for a Quick Tag would be e.g. <+smiley+> which would be replaced 
with <img src="/smiley.jpg" alt=":)"> when posted. This should come in handy 
for Blogger users who are used to starting their posts with some kind of a 
header.

I initially planned on including this in blogBuddy 0.5 but after giving it 
some thought I think it should be pushed back to 0.6. The reason for this is 
party due to programming problems (we probably need regular expressions for 
this) and partly it's due to the fact that we need some suggestions for the 
tag markers (<+ and +>). I initially liked it but now I think that it may be 
too much. So I need your input on other potential markers (<? <% <$ probably 
won't work). Think outside the box on this one and remember that the tags 
don't necessarily have to start with '<'.

So what *will* be new in version 0.5?
This is my idea:
* Post editing and deleting
* Spelling (this is a real bonus since Blogger has lost it's spelling 
feature)
* Some interface bugs fixed
* A few minor bug fixes other than interface

What do you guys think?

Oddsson

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