Quick Blog from Atom

Perfect for sneaky quick posting to your blog at work, without visiting blogger.com. ;) Technical limitations: This uses XML-RPC instead of atom. It should use Atom. It can only talk to Blogger not any other blogs. It requires codebase support to be enabled. It should parse and interpret the xml message response and tell you whether your post has been successful in a more friendly way. Worst of all: It replaces your failed message with a fault report when it fails - NB cut and paste your message before pressing Post just in case! Technical advantages: It doesn't need any other client other than html and javascript. WYSIWYG. If enough people like it there may be a version two which addresses the first four issues. Step 1. Go here, seach for Quick Blog, (there are two), choose http://base.google.com/base/a/1143177/D14659907763554374015 not the older version (although both should work). Step 2. Select Add It Now. (Or you can just use this url above with the Add by URL function next to the search box) Step 3. Next edit -+,(click edit) - don't worry about the appkey, minimally - you will need to change the user to your blogger user, secret to your password and blog id to the id of your blog. If you don't know your blog id you can see this by signing in to your www.blogger.com and clicking on your blog dashboard, the address bar looks like http://www.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=66666641 Step 3. The next thing is allowing your browser permission to converse in XML-RPC messages with Blogger (send your quick blog post and receive a response). If you have Mozilla Firefox,
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3.1 type about:config in the address bar,
3.2 search for signed.applets.codebase_principal_support.
3.3 Double click for true. I don't use IE, and can't remember the equivalent procedure. I can find out if you reeeally want me to; I posted it on my blog ages ago. Firefox is more secure, more extensible and has better features, I recommend using it, wholeheartedly. Step 4. Type something in the box and press 'Post', it does take html tags, but this can corrupt the message. Your browser will ask you to allow the response from www.blogger.com, choose allow. (Don't deselect 'ask each time' as its best to grant permission yourself each time for security reasons). The XML-RPC message response will be placed in the input box. Crude I know. That's it! Your blog may have additional validation requirements to verify your are really human (anti -spammer stuff) in order to publish your posts, contact the blogger guys to remove this . Hope you enjoy, regards