Bookmarklets

[dweade]

If this has hit in another thread, I apologize. Did a search and only see one other entry regarding Bookmarklets in Serendipity: http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ookmarklet

My question is whether there are other options for using Bookmarklets? One of my primary methods of blogging uses this type of posting process. Has anyone developed a different method (from the one linked above) or is there additional software or plugin that allows for this?

Thanks,
DWeade

[garvinhicking]

So you read about the JustblogIT extension? What is wrong with that one?

Did you look into XML-RPC posting plugins, like flock, ecto, marsedit, w.bloggar -- maybe this is something you are looking for?

Regards,
Garvin

[CaptainCrunch]

Reagrding Flock: has anybody been able getting the latest version (0.4.10) to work with S9Y? Of course I installed to XMLRPC-Plugin, but Flock only "hangs" when I try to configure it ("Just double-checking"...). This happens with either Blogger or MetaWeblog-Endpoints.

Also tried out to turn on debugging within serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php, but this doesn't show me anything...
Otoh, when I take a look at my webserver-logs, I can see the POST-Request the browser creates.

Btw.: With Flock 0.4.9 and the latest build (-pre 0.4.11) I'm only getting errors "detecting your blog settings". By sniffing traffic I don't see any useable responses to blogger.getUsersPosts.

Would be really neat if we could Flock for blogging, as I think it'll grow a lotz in popularity, especially for bloggers.

[garvinhicking]

CaptainCrunch:

I just tested with 0.5-pre and can post using the Blogger API. The auto-detection did fail, but I was able to post without a major problem after configuring the endpoint manually.

I'll contact the Flock developers for asking about how we can support auto-detection.

Regards,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

I've also just committed auto-detection support for version 1.9 of the plugin.

Regards,
Garvin

[CaptainCrunch]

Great as usual!

[garvinhicking]

P.S.:

http://community.flock.com/node/1062

Regards,
Garvin

[davidcrickett]

What if your using the great Opera browser? Any options for a bookmarklet here (or in any browser other that FireFux)?

[CaptainCrunch]

Garvin: Have you seen the latest reply on the Flock-"Forum"? Seems as if these guys would love to support the best blog in the world.

Btw.: It still doesn't work for me, although auto-detection does. Whenever I fill in my (correct) Username and password, I'm still getting errors.

[garvinhicking]

Thanks for your pointer! Indeed I didn'T check back there, but now I did

It's sad that it doesn'T yet work for you - are you using the latest flock shot? You might want to enable the XMLRPC debuging (Edit your serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php file and set $debug = true) to see what's causing errors?

Best regards,
Garvin

[CaptainCrunch]

I'm using the hourly Flock-builds.

Well, my main problem with enabling debugging is that rpc.log doesn't get written. I also tried to switch to path from /tmp to something else (e.g. my /path/to/blog), but that also doesn't work out.

[garvinhicking]

But it's working here without problems? You must use a directory that's writable for your webserver - and set the $debug to true...this really must work

Regards,
Garvin

[davidcrickett]

JustBlogIt is unfortunately not working with the latest FireFox built -and what about us, that are not using FireFox, but Opera or the latest IE7 beta 2 - which is actually rather nice - what are we to do?
Why doesn't Serendipity offer an option like other blog systems, to drag a bookmarklet from the control panel to the browser panel? I would like to see that! Else, Serendipity rules!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

That wouldn'T be a problem, actually. Until now, nobody has requested this really, though.

If you show me a bookmarklet for any blog system, I'll take that to write a serendipity one within a few minutes.

Best regards,
Garvin

[davidcrickett]

Nice! Here is one from the great Pivot blog system:

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javascript:bm=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();void(open('http://projekt.blangstrup.org/pivot/index.php?menu=entries&func=new_entry&url='+escape(location.href)+'&i='+escape(bm)+'&t='+escape(document.title), 'new_log_entry', 'resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, width=750, height=420, location=yes, status=yes'));