I'm not a LiveJournal user (except for the purposes of this post) but I decided to finally take a good look at the Deepest Sender extension for Firefox because I've read so much about it around the blogs. It's pretty nice. I've got some minor UI criticisms but beyond that, it's a very capable tool and if you're a Firefox user and a LJ user, you really should get Deepest Sender.
Posted by asa at August 15, 2004 11:08 AMI believe it was Ben Goodger who brought up the idea of one for MovableType. Based on his statements I put together a little XUL (just xul mockup):
http://robert.accettura.com/projects/movabletypezilla/movabletype.xul
Nothing further ever happened... though someone could take it up.
Posted by: Robert Accettura on August 15, 2004 12:01 PMAside from the fact I get random crashes when trying to use custom security on posts, I find it works fairly well. I don't know if it still makes a mess of <lj user=""> though.
Posted by: Hendikins on August 15, 2004 12:33 PMYeah, I've been using it off and on for quite some time. It's quite impressive. Sometimes it feels a little unresponsive though.
ps. What happened to the answers to the latest "Ask Asa"?
Posted by: Kjell on August 15, 2004 01:00 PMI wish someone would work on something like that for blogger :(... I know there's BlogThis! But from what I know nobodys working on it anymore... and I mean I do use the tweak for the user.js to use the throbber as a link to BlogThis! but I know someone could do better...
Posted by: Joey on August 15, 2004 07:29 PMI *was* trying to get mozBlog working in Firefox
(see: http://www.livejournal.com/users/jedbro/10844.html )
Although I ran out of time. It is very feasable, I just need some time. As soon as I get some work done on QuickNote, BBCode, WebmailCompose and my webpage, I'll start work on it again. Shouldn't be *too hard*.
Once I get it working, I'd like to model it off of DeepestSender and add SpellBound support.