A couple of Windows Live Writer annoyances
I’ve been using Windows Live Writer for a few days now and posting all of my blog articles using it. I’ve found it an altogether pleasing experience, especially as the software makes it so easy to do many things. However, there are a few small things that I think could be improved.
- You can’t give an article a separate excerpt, which makes Movable Type using a first part of your post body instead. It’s not too bad though, as I prefer the latter behaviour.
- When you paste a multi-paragraph block of text into a blockquote, paragraphs aren’t made properly. Every paragraph starts with a <p> but doesn’t end with a matching </p>, making it invalid XHTML. I don’t know if this is also the case with normal blocks of pasted text as opposed to a blockquote.
- The Windows Live Writer window does not seem to remember its last size settings and always default to a small windows at the bottom of the screen.
Other than these small annoyances, the software is great for a beta.