I have continued to play with Windows Live Writer, and I must say, the more I use it, the more impressed I am.
The major new "feature" I discovered?
When you modify an entry which has already been saved and published, and then (re)publish it, WLW updates the entry in Movable Type. With SharpMT, editing an entry and posting it results in a second entry being added to the blog.
I did also notice that the last entry did not have a Trackback link. I don't know if that is because I reconfigured the default in MT to turn Trackback off - no one ever used the feature for anything other than spam - or if because it is another MT unique feature and therefore not supported by WLW. I am going to set the Trackback in the Properties tab to "Allow" to see what happens with this post...
I am not putting SharpMT down - it still has a lot going for it, especially the full support of all of the unique features of Movable Type, but, I am impressed with WLW. If only it supported Extended Entry...
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Posted by David at November 28, 2006 02:01 PM
Actually, you can edit posts that have been put up to the server, but just not from the original draft. Any file that's stored locally goes up as a new post; if you show the Blog Links window, though, you can right click and edit any existing post that is already on the server. Might seem strange, but it was the only way I could think of to keep the two "modes" distinct.
But I have to admit it: if WLW started to support the MT/TypePad specific fields, I don't know how long #MT would keep going... it impressed me as well!
Posted by: Randy on December 3, 2006 04:44 PM