Ontem me deparei com a mensagem do pessoal da Brainjuice me avisando da nova versão do Blogo. Mal consegui esperar e já fui fazer a atualização do Blogo.

A lista de novidades e acertos é quilométrica! Veja no final deste artigo a lista em inglês.

A nova interface é de babar. Agora é possível trocar a interface. São duas cores. O azul original e o preto. O engraçado é que a interface em preto tem um quê de antigo. Faltaram apenas colocar a barra de rolagem em preto e o fundo de categorias e tags de um artigo para deixar a interface realmente “black”. Porém em tela cheia fica realmente bacana escrever com o preto como cor de fundo.

Nesta visualização, aliás, ficou melhor para colocar categorias e tags. Sem falar que você continua podendo editar o título do artigo, mesmo você achando que não pode. Deixa eu explicar. O título do artigo na visualização em tela cheia não fica dentro de uma caixa de texto como as categorias e o texto do artigo. Ele parece em letra maior e acima da caixa de texto do artigo. Basta clicar nele que um halo azul demarca a área de edição, permitindo trocar o título do artigo sem maiores problemas.

Dois novos botões fazem companhia aos que já existiam. Um é responsável por fazer “quotes” e outro por incluir “bullets” no texto. Ótimo, não? O que eu mais queria ainda não existe, que é a inclusão de vídeos do Youtube ou similares.

Apenas para concluir o artigo das novidades, vou comentar rapidamente sobre a tela de artigo já publicado. Agora é possível ver parte do texto do artigo ou mostrar a data de publicação. Eu já fico pensando que no futuro também será possível ver a hora de publicação.

Outra boa para comentar é sobre imagens. Agora é possível aplicar efeitos sobre as imagens. O Blogo chama de filtros. Hoje são apenas dois. Sépia e Preto e Branco. Eu gostaria daquele efeito de sombra, quem nem as janelas do OS X.

Eu vou terminar por aqui, por que se fosse continuar, ficaria escrevendo até o final do feriado de São Jorge. 😉

[FIXED] Pasting videos from Vimeo would cause Blogo to hang when posting.
[FIXED] When editing posts, some image thumbs would be reduced in size.
[FIXED] When reducing the dimensions of an image with “Keep proportions” selected, the crop selection would be slightly reduced.
[FIXED] When editing a published post, the published date was being set to the current time when updating the server.
[FIXED] When editing an image which is linked to the full size image, its link was not being reset to the new cropped image.
[FIXED] Post deletion was not working for Typepad and MovableType systems.
[FIXED] Very small images were being blown out of proportion when previewing or posting.
[FIXED] Categories were not being set or read properly for MovableType and TypePad systems.
[FIXED] Dates were not being parsed properly for articles from TypePad and MovableType.
[FIXED] When posting to MovableType or WordPress articles were scheduled for publication in the future instead of being published immediately.
[FIXED] Object tags were not being aligned properly when posting to blog.
[FIXED] The editor would sporadically stop responding to selections and would not let the user delete text.
[NEW] Added option to split posts into summary and extended content using a blank paragraph with nothing but “###”.
[FIXED] Scroll bar would sometimes appear in the image cropper.
[NEW] Added per-blog preference to open links to original images in either a new window or in a lightbox.
[FIXED] The editor was not reloading the image list when deleting a paragraph with an image in it. Trying to remove the image manually from the list would result in a memory error and crash.
[FIXED] Clicking more than twice on an image would open the cropper more than once.
[NEW] Added a per-blog preference for labeling Untitled posts.
[NEW] Added preference to change the way posts are displayed in the post list, showing the title, date and an excerpt from the post text.
[FIXED] Improved wording of template generation scratch posts to provide a more user-friendly explanation of what”s happening.
[NEW] Added control to image cropper to apply black & white or sepia filter to images.
[NEW] Added File > Export… menu item which allows the user to export to plain text, HTML or Web Archive.
[NEW] Added a help menu item to allow the user to install a bookmarklet which will post the open browser window to Blogo.
[FIXED] When clicking on the top of the editor above the first paragraph, the cursor will now jump to the start of the document.
[FIXED] Embedded content is now shown alongside images in the list view.
[FIXED] Reordering images by dragging in the list view was resetting the selected image alignment to center.
[FIXED] Blogo now handles blogs with no feed detection link and prompts the user for the link if needed.
[NEW] Added a button to select/deselect all pings for the currently selected blog.
[NEW] Added an invisible hit area at the top and bottom of the editor which will insert dragged items into a new paragraph at the start or end of the document.
[FIXED] Object/embed tags were not having their alignments respected when posting.
[NEW] Added a preference to go to the active blog immediately after posting.
[FIXED] Occasionally the main window would “disappear” and only reappear when selecting its item from the menu.
[NEW] Added dock menu item to relaunch the application.
[FIXED] Blogo now sends all dates to WordPress and MetaWeblog blogs as GMT, and adjusts the dates properly when retrieving posts based on the user”s time zone.
[FIXED] Added workaround for bug with typo where drafts were being published when editing them even though published was set to false.
[NEW] Added dock menu.
[NEW] Added preference to allow spaces in tags and category names.
[NEW] Added black interface option, available in the Advanced preferences.
[NEW] Updated user interface with new icons and buttons.
[FIXED] Blogo will now confirm before quitting if the user has unsaved work.
[FIXED] When dragging an image or text to the editor and it did not have focus, the drag operation would fail silently.
[FIXED] When editing a previously saved draft, typo would publish the article even though it was sent to the server as a draft due to a bug in the XML-RPC backend of the system. Added a workaround to reset the date of the edited post to one day from the present unless explicitly set to a later date in order to avoid this issue.
[NEW] Added uppercase, lowercase and capitalize options to the Format menu and the contextual menu which appears when clicking on text in the editor.
[FIXED] When inserting a link at the end of a paragraph, text typed after the link was coming in with the wrong font.
[NEW] Added “Check link” button to the image editing window.
[NEW] Improved status messages in progress alert when posting or editing an entry. The alert now shows which images are being uploaded.
[FIXED] Pasting plain text was eating linebreaks.
[FIXED] Pasting rich text from text edit would sometimes add extra linebreaks due to invisible characters passed on the clipboard.
[FIXED] Pasting plain text with double linebreaks was not separating the paragraphs properly.
[FIXED] WordPress blogs with more than one author will return posts from all authors. Blogo will now check post author ids and only show posts written by the current user.
[FIXED] The preferences window now locks the active section when verifying login information or refreshing the preview to avoid some bugs if a connection error occurs after switching panes.
[FIXED] Crash when requesting a password from Keychain when there were no blogs in the preferences (e.g. due to a user removing a blog while a request is in progress).
[FIXED] When adding a new blog and changing the window focus, on successful authentication the new blog alert would not disappear.
[FIXED] When using a generic preview template due to a generation error, images were not being resized to thumbnail size before being displayed in the preview window.
[FIXED] Various memory errors which were causing crashing bugs when performing more than one operation at the same time (e.g. opening the preview window for the first time while the post list was loading).
[FIXED] When dragging an image in the image list to reorder, its alignment and margin was lost.
[CHANGED] Updated typo logo on the blog comparison matrix to the new version.
[FIXED] When cancelling a post after an image had been uploaded, closing Blogo and reopening it, upon posting for the second time the post would fail.
[FIXED] Paragraph rollover background was sticking when adding a new image with the cropper.
[FIXED] The editor will now cancel the previous load before loading a new document.
[FIXED] When closing with underlined or strikethrough text in the editor, upon reopening the strikethrough text would have no formatting and the underlined formatting could not be removed.
[FIXED] Background colors were appearing in the output of the editor when previewing while dragging over an element.
[FIXED] When entering a newline, the editor will now clear any styles to avoid the next paragraph beginning with the previous paragraph”s style.
[FIXED] Crash when removing the last blog from the list while the post list was refreshing.
[FIXED] When adding a new blog, sometimes the cancel button would not close the new blog sheet.
[FIXED] When publishing drafts, the post status in the list is now updated after confirmation, and the creation date of the post is set to the current time unless it”s in the future.
[NEW] Added option to sort draft posts above published ones.
[FIXED] Embedded content snippets pasted from sites like MetaCafé which do not wrap the embed in an object tag were not being recognized by the editor.
[NEW] Added formatting options for text alignment, ordered and unordered lists.
[FIXED] When hitting enter twice in a paragraph which began with a line break, smart paragraph separators were being ignored.
[NEW] Title and keywords can now be edited from fullscreen mode.
[FIXED] When downloading posts, Blogo will now check for scratch posts used in template generation which may not have been deleted and remove them if found.
[FIXED] When posting a new entry, the entry was appearing in the list as a draft even when published.
[FIXED] When posting an article to a WordPress blog with a specific date, WordPress was saving the article as a draft. Added workaround to set the date after publishing.
[FIXED] Links with single-quotes in the title would corrupt the output from the editor, causing links to run together.
[FIXED] Improved error message for blogs without an autodetection link, and added dropdown to choose api type instead of defaulting to MetaWeblog.
[CHANGED] Added “Refreshing post list” advisory text over editor when disabled.
[FIXED] When dragging more than one image to the editor, images after the first had their default crop dimensions set to the previous values.
[NEW] Growl can now be used for notifications instead of alerts.
[FIXED] Improved usability and error handling when auto-detecting settings for blogs with no RSD (Really Simple Detection) file.
[FIXED] Alerts no longer float in midair when Blogo is not the main app in focus.
[FIXED] “Resize images to fit” preference was not being respected.
[FIXED] When pasting an embedded object the object was not selectable until the cursor was moved in the editor.
[FIXED] The application would be come unresponsive for a moment while converting all posts from markdown/textile after downloading the post list. Changed to convert each article before it”s displayed in the editor.
[FIXED] When switching from edit to create and back again, the editor was not being reloaded with the selected post.
[FIXED] When refreshing the post list at startup for a blog with automatic login disabled, the list was not refreshing after login.
[NEW] Added command to remove formatting from selected text.
[FIXED] When pasting several paragraphs the text was being pasted as if it was a single paragraph.
[FIXED] When editing an image and posting an update to a previously published post, sometimes the incorrect image dimensions were being assigned to the image thumbnail when publishing.
[FIXED] White frames were showing up in exported text.
[FIXED] When deleting the last post in the post list, the title and keywords fields were retaining the previous values until the user switched to create mode.
[FIXED] When downloading the post list for a blog with only drafts and no published articles, drafts were showing up as published.
[FIXED] Blogo will now delete cancelled articles which were mistakenly posted.
[FIXED] Editor would freeze and not load when editing a post which was posted with a blank paragraph.
[NEW] Added “Get information from Link” contextual menu item, which downloads and displays Microformats from the selected URL. You can visit http://microformats.org/ for more information about Microformats.
[FIXED] When editing an article which was originally written through the typo web interface and then saving it, upon reopening it the article would appear with extra space at the top and bottom. Now, when editing articles the text conversion is set to “none”.
[FIXED] When saving to typo blogs without specifying a published date, drafts were being published due to a bug in the typo XML-RPC backend. A patch has been submitted to the typo issue tracker and a workaround has been added to set new post creation dates to 5 minutes in the future by default to avoid this issue on existing typo installations.
[FIXED] When deleting the last post in the list and then creating a new post, the title and keywords fields were not responding to keyboard input.
[FIXED] Blog settings detection is now done in the main thread with calls to native Cocoa APIs instead of in a separate ruby thread. This should resolve crashes when adding a new weblog.
[FIXED] When an error occurs while detecting the user”s blog settings, Blogo will now return a more specific error message along with the HTTP response code if available.
[FIXED] Improved feedback for status when adding a new blog through the Accounts preferences.
[FIXED] Keywords and categories were not being properly handled for WordPress blogs.
[FIXED] Thumbnail sizes were not being set correctly for blog systems which return a partial url instead of a full url when uploading images (e.g. /images/myimage.jpg instead of http://myblog.com/images/myimage.jpg).
[FIXED] Keyword/category format (“Keywords and #Categories”) is now consistent across all blog systems.
[FIXED] Preview generation was failing for weblog systems which return a partial url rather than a full url for new posts (e.g. /posts/mypost.html instead of http://myblog.com/posts/mypost.html).
[FIXED] When closing the preferences window after changing ping preferences, the application would try to verify the selected blog”s account, causing a noticeable hang and “Login failed” message in the console.
[FIXED] Strikethrough formatting was being stripped when pasting from the editor back into itself.
[FIXED] When refreshing the post list, the selected post was not reloaded in the editor.
[FIXED] When previewing a post with a blank title the preview pane will now insert “Untitled” in the template.
[FIXED] Images conversion is now more fault-tolerant. The editor will now add the images it can, and alert the user to the failed conversions after all of the others have been added.
[FIXED] Images from the web with url-escaped characters were not being named properly when dragged to the editor.
[FIXED] Paragraphs will now highlight their full height when dragged over even if they contain a floated image and a short text.
[FIXED] Preview window will now close when switching to a twitter account.
[NEW] Editor now accepts files in jpeg, tiff, png, pdf, gif, bmp, psd, and eps formats, and converts them to the appropriate format before inserting into the post.
[FIXED] When adding an image to an empty post and then undoing the operation, the editor would become unresponsive to selections.
[FIXED] When cancelling an image crop, the target paragraph would retain its background color instead of clearing it.
[FIXED] “Place image” dialog box now limits the selected file to supported formats.
[FIXED] Crash when clearing the editor and there was no autosave file to backup.
[FIXED] Preview generator was not deleting its test post if an error occurred when sending the post.
[FIXED] Preview will now use the current blog”s URL as the base URL for all paths beginning with “/”. This should solve problems with background images defined in external CSS files not appearing.
[FIXED] When removing the last blog from the Accounts preferences, the account details section disappears and is replaced by a box with instructions and a button to add a new account.
[FIXED] Posting embedded content with unescaped ampersands in the URL was causing Blogger to reject posts due to invalid XML.
[FIXED] Added note about Keychain storage to all alerts with password inputs.