I really hope the great blogging tool Windows Live Writer will get better over time. Here’s my wish list, in case anybody from Microsoft is listening:
It’s not much, but it will really help a lot of people.
I’ve reported this problem to Microsoft, but it will probably take another 2 to 6 months before i get an answer.
The answer is simple: wlw checks for an exif. If he finds one, the image is a JPEG, so he leaves it alone. If he doesn’t, he assumes it’s a PNG, so he transforms it into one.
The image on the left is transformed. The one on the right is not.
I love WLW. I use it every day for blogging. It’s great that it supports blog themes and autosaves and everything.
But I think it’s retarded. I have huge problems with the image handling system. There are a couple situations that are happening:
WTF?!?!!?
I like WLW. It’s among the few Microsoft products I really enjoy using (along with windows xp and movie maker).
Recently, they’ve updated it. And not in a good way. I remember the times Microsoft office started. It was basic and easy to use. Now it resembles adobe acrobat reader, full of features and a XXX megabytes install kit. WLW is turning into that. Not improved, but bloated.
For the Writer team, here is a list of what I want in the next update of wlw:
And some pie. And a solo installer.