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Bringing the Blogger API to Mozilla Composer

Welcome to Bloggenmoz!

This site was created to document my attempts to add support for the Blogger API directly to Mozilla Composer. What this means is that people should be able to post to their weblogs directly from the HTML editor that comes with Mozilla. I've started coding over the weekend and already have a functional prototype. Here's a screenshot:

(Click here if the popup script doesn't work)

You can get my current code from the download page. You'll also find installation instructions as well as some notes and caveats. Please remember that this code is experimental!

This project was inspired by Mike Lee's MozBlog, a Mozilla extension that is embedded in the browser window and allows for quick posting of smaller texts (think bookmarklet). In contrast, Blogger API support in Composer would be ideal for writing longer texts, something that is very unconvenient with browser-based solutions.

There's more to come soon - stay tuned and let me know what you think!

posted by hns, 2002-03-11 13:33 add comment

inspiring

keep on rockin! - and i'll have a(nother) look at bringing the Blogger API to vanilla :)

posted by earl, 2002-03-11 17:23 reply

wow

Wow, this sounds cool. I'm sure that in supporting the API it'll allow other hosts to be used (like MozBlog) otherwise my MovableType installation will get all lonely.

:-)

posted by nedrichards, 2002-03-12 23:54 reply

Actually

my code is just a quick experimental hack to see if this makes sense (from a user point of view), while MozBlog is a pretty nicely structured and well-written package.

From what I've learned Blogger support in Composer does make some sense, but it won't be the ultimate Blogging solution. It's nice to be able to post to a blog from Composer, but the fact that there is no easy way to get the posting back from the server to edit it again (you have to store it locally) somewhat limits usability IMHO. So what is needed is an easy way to get a posting back from the weblog server into Composer...

posted by hns, 2002-03-13 12:39

Hook it up to Radio

That way you have a local source for editing your posts.

posted by John, 2002-03-16 20:24 reply

This is good

Is there any way to pull the entire live blog page into Composer? That would be an easy way to get the content back from the server for editing without having to save a local copy. From a user perspective I see something like a context menu item that opens composer, moves in the page and maybe outlines the content areas. You could enclose each entry with a DIV tag with a unique ID to keep things straight.

I wrote the IE only Adminimizer Toolbar and I've been trying to come up with a similar solution for Mozilla. At the moment on-page editing doesn't seem like a viable option like it is in IE, so I've been looking to Composer. Your widget is looking pretty good so far!

posted by mkeyes, 2002-05-02 22:51 reply

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