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Blogs need to become way more ajax-y than they are (well, blog themes, but blog tools need to change to support this).

People get confused by the separation between "admin interface" and "visible blog". Start with the visible blog, and allow people to edit things that they see. We can do that with AJAX now, can't we?

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Frédéric de Villamil says:

That's just what we plan to do with Typo blogware, but this means many security issues.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Yoan Blanc says:

Nothing new here.

But how many times do you reorg the "widgets" in your Facebook page? Never! Because drag'n'drop in a big page like that, like your blog is, is just too much painful.

Edit in place, great, nice. I edit things before they are published, rarely after because of the "ping" everyone operation, or Cool URI's don't change. I know that when I ping a modification this content will be read and replicated elsewhere: Technorati, Google, Netvibes?, … Or changing the title means changing the URL of the post somehow. On flickr, you have the edit in place, but the feature "replace this picture" isn't that obvious.

From my point of view, those ideas are for geeks who loves to control everything and pimp their html . What about the simplicity of twitter, pownce, tumblr, soup.io ? Publish/Delete that's it. User experience is way more important than geekness.

Make the world simpler, accessible and pleasant to use not bloated and slow. I don't imagine the pain of the template designer of widget creator to enable all those features.

Cheers,

P.S.: A quick note, you've got three search forms on your page? Isn't your blog geek enough that you want to Ajax it? I'm kidding ;-)
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Stephanie Booth says:

I agree that drag-n-dropping widgets isn't something one does every day. But being able to activate an "editing mode" and do the widget organisation on the page instead of "behind the scene" would be really helpful for some people.

I almost put a note about the title, saying that in a blog post, you rarely edit the title. I have, at times, but without changing the URL (like climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/07/10/talk- languages-on... -- check the title).

I disagree about editing posts. I edit a lot (details) once it's published. Fix typos, etc. People like to be able to save and preview -- why not have that in the blog page directly? (like some themes which display comments held for moderation as if they were published, but with a note).

I agree this is nothing new. I know there are WP plugins which do some of this. But I'm still astonished this isn't the "obvious" thing to do for many, and that it's still not there yet.

I guess it's technically more delicate than I imagine.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

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