Flock first impressions
Posting this from Flock 0.4.8. First impressions:
- Blog tags don’t correspond to WordPress categories for some reason. (flickr hasn’t been able to figure this out either, so maybe it’s an API problem?)
- This rich text control is not so intuitive (can’t seem to create more than one entry in an unordered list, no matter how hard I try). It posts to my blog in full HTML, which is theoretically nice, but that doesn’t agree with my WordPress settings (I’m using Textile2 and SmaryPants in WP). It would be good to optionally turn it into a plaintext control.
- The shelf is a great concept (it’s like a NeXT browser!) but, again, I’d like to optionally turn off all the <blockquote> stuff when dragging a clip out.
- del.icio.us integration is on the right track, but the posting modal is tiny and it didn’t propagate my tags to del.icio.us.
- The UI needs a lot of work (try pressing “use small icons” in the Customize Toolbar dialog!)… It feels like Firefox with the Flocky stuff tacked on.
For now, I’m all cmd-Q and back to the Fox. But this looks promising. #