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Spell check!
I mean, I would want spell check, not that you need to spell check this post.
I need more coffee....

A spell checker... Hmm. A simple one wouldn't be hard.

Um, I mean, I'll pass that on to Mr Hypothetical.

Yeah, definiatly Spell Check. And the ability to write a post, and have it posted at an advanced time, with out showing up automatically... That would be nice. And for people who are HTML/challanged maybe a simple what-you-see-is-what-you-get program. But if not, okay.

Spel checkr. Got it.

Fully agree on some kind of time delay posting, so you can set a post to be released some time in the future. Spull chuckur could be handy. And automatic smileys in the comments.

I don't know how possible this is, but maybe some tools to work with comments. The ability to list comments by name or email address, a group delete function in case spam gets through, a search function for comments to go find that particular one where someone said...

Good suggestions. Mr Hypothetical says thanks.

Formatting buttons for all comment sections and the ability to use strike in the comments would be a nice and useful feature. By the way, could you enable the strike in our comments? Thanks!

Another thing is something that autosaves posts in draft status as you are doing them, maybe every 5 or 10 minutes. That way I someone doesn't lose them after they've almost finished a long post.

how about an include feature that operates above the blog parser level so you could use stuff in SSI's? Of course that would mean that the pages would have to be built on the fly which would result in a pretty hefty server proc cycle overhead and ... oh I've gone cross eyed...

an it would be nice if it was written in something less archaic than perl ... I'm done now.

I would like a button where we can trackback to the server of all spam commenters, and when we recieve a spam comment, we Hit The Button and the program tracksback to the servers of the spammers and they are given The Top Secret Intel Signal of Self-Destruction, resulting in lots of explosions and fire and general destruction of the spam servers, and a pox upon thee and thine of the spam server person with boils on their bottoms, too.

But if that's a little unfeasible, pretty colors are nice.

Victor is on to something huge here!

We NEED an 'Electrocute Crap-Weasle' button!!!

Hurray for the boiling of bottoms!
Pox is good too.

rob - Mr Hypothetical is planning to use SSIs to improve page generation speed. This is how the nested template system will work. SSIs seem to work pretty darn fast in Apache, so it doesn't look like they will be a problem.

Also, Mr H. is a big fan of Python. I hope that meets with your approval.

simon - Making autosave work well in a web application is tricky, but Mr H promises to explore this.

Susie, Mookie - Mr H. informs me that a prototype spell-checker is already operational, and can spell-check a 2000-word post in 0.54 seconds (on a 1GHz P3). Of that, 0.50 seconds is taken up in loading the dictionary... In production, the dictionary would already be loaded, so it would only take 0.04 seconds. We can probably live with that.

In the test post it found such bloopers as desrve, contraints, serach, tunring and skwering. However, it also found don't, we're and people's, so it needs a bit of tweaking.

Victor, Ted & LeeAnn - I will speak to Mr H regarding the Electrocute Crap-Weasel button and see what can be done.

Victor - There will likely be a pretty-colour version, and also a dull-grey version for those who post from work.

Oh, and Mr Bartender, you can enable strike in comments yourself - it's in the MT config thingy. You can enter a list of acceptable HTML tags. My list is: a href,i,b,u,strike,sup,sub,br,p

It's on a per-blog basis, so you need to decide yourselves which ones you want to allow.

Mr H will look into formatting buttons. Any features implemented will work in both IE and Mozilla... And hopefully other browsers.

So Pixy I just copied your list (a href,i,b,u,strike,sup,sub,br,p) and pasted it to my preferences. Will they work now?

It won't let me use strike in the PP comments, though it will here...

ok, I see now--you allowed "strike" whereas I was typing "s" and not getting a result. So I added "s" to the list and am rebuilding...hope it works now, cuz I'm lazy a minimalist

Oh.

Python sounds and looks funky although I've never actually used it. Another couple of suggestions for Mr H.

* Full X browser compatibility (down to version 5)

* Xhtml compliant markup (things like parsing the & into & automatically)

* A PDA compatible version of the admin pages! I'm currently writing one for MT.

*Some tags which make use of the data produced by the various "Now playing" plugins for WMP WinAmp etc.

* And I'm not sure if this is covered in notification but it would be nice to be able to sign up for an email when someone replies to a comment you left.

And am I being dense but you can already have formatted buttons - just stick a class on them or even swap them out for img buttons.

The Bartender was referring to little buttons that do italics and bold and underline so that you don't have to type in the <i> <b> <u>.

Cross-browser compatibility is a key point, and Mozilla and IE are just the minumum (Mr H tells me).

Your other points are certainly worth thinking about, but might not make the first (or rather, zeroth) release, which Mr H is hoping will be ready sometime next month.

And Python is indeed funky, assuming you mean that in a good way.

Funky is a good thing unless used in reference to smell!

Hmm, those buttons should be stylable but for some reason are rendered by javascript. All they do is call a function in the comments JavaScript so there is no reason why they can't be replaced with your own buttons (famous last words!) ... I'll investigate and see how easy it'll be to do with the current MT interface.

How about a little automatic skinning???

Rob: I have the formatting buttons installed on my site if you want to go check them out. They look and work fine and even allow shortcut key formatting [ctrl][shift][b] etc. They work but don't display in my individual archives... only displays x picture... haven't really looked into it though. These buttons do not show up in Mozilla for some reason... probably the Mozilla Monster ate them??

FWIW: I took the code for the buttons out of the page where you post your entries, if that helps you any.

Thanks Pixy. Got my strike etc updated and working like a champ!

I also added blockquotes to your list.