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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

An Open Letter to the Blogspot Team

Your editors for creating new posts and especially for creating comments just are not good enough!



As a programmer I have to use external programs to highlight the syntax of code for a new post which is bad, but the list of usable tags in a comment field is so small that I am reduced to writing a program to parse indented code and spit out something that will look merely OK.



Contrast Blogger editing with this which is available on Wikipedia.



Blogger, catch up!


- Paddy.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Paddy,

    you should be able to get this working on your blog for syntax hilighting.

    It's all javascript so you can add it you your blogger template.

    http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

    engtech
    http://internetducttape.com

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  2. Doh, just saw your nick on the syntaxhilighter discussion page so I guess you already know about it :)

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  3. Sorry to say but as much as I want to like blogger because it's Google, I don't it's far too restrictive, even for my wife… and she works in sales. *I kid I kid* but seriously, how many years has it been? Google should have cooled up Blogger a whole bunch by now, but it's still crud.

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