From the Iphone to Web...
I-phoning with IBlogger
I’m giving IBlogger a spin on my Iphone, and would like to see what the real capabilities are on mobile phones as it pertains to blogging. First off, I'm not liking the proprietary markup being generated by IBlogger. It inserts its own footer (promoting themselves, a somewhat cheap move since I paid for the app, even for 99 cents).
As well, it wraps my images in a bunch of inline styles. It validates, but this feature could be better: perhaps pick up the native Expression Engine defaults I have already setup in the EE control panel?Also, once I edit the text on the Iphone, it doesn't seem to be showing up correctly in the EE control panel. Not exactly sure what the disparity is, but there is a delta. And what about the ability to assign my blog posts to categories? Perhaps I'm missing that, but it seems all posts go directly into a huge bucket, which could become messy over time. EE's Moblog module, on the other hand, allows for a series of default behaviors, including the ability to assign a post to a category by default. My pic uploaded from the Iphone just fine, and was placed correctly into the designated upload folder. Iblogger pulled in all my blogs once I configured it correctly, and the new user will need to point to the Metaweblog API in order to actually connect. It took a little snooping on the EE forums to get there, but once connected, I had full access to the range of posts in each one of my blogs.
This post, by the way, ended up being heavily edited directly in Expression Engine, perhaps the greatest indicator of whether or not Iblogger will serve as a real tool for Moblogging from the Iphone. More to come. Meanwhile, let me take this app through more of its paces, and don't forget to take it all with a grain of salt: the app costs less than an order of french fries at McDonald's...for now, I see Iblogger as a nifty way to do something quick and dirty, but given the frequency of my posts here, I can't imagine a time when I'll need to resort to such methods when I can wait the extra hour and get the full range of capabilities already available in the Expression Engine Control Panel.
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