Remember the AIR beta post i wrote earlier? I mentioned about an AIR application that interacts as a Wordpress client. I guess my idea was old already.
AirPress, a AIR Beta 2 based Wordpress client was introduced 09/2007. Thanks to Dragos who left me the comment. Apparently I couldn’t find out the name of the author quickly (since i’m writting this as i’m at work).
On Oct. 16th, 0.31 was released.
I finally found some time to update AIRPress. The new version fixes some bugs and adds new features :
* Compatible with Adobe AIR beta 2
* Edit posts (!)
* Edit HTML of posts
* Ability to use special characters (especially for french and spanish)
* Automatic update when a new version will be released
* Fix for many minor bugs…Let me know about any bug you notice. I am now working on a more sophisticated version. Stay tuned!
The application is still in its early development stage, but with a lot of nice features already built. Here’s a brief review of mine:
1. Really nice interface. I love the fact that the application resizes itself as you jump from one section to other
2. a simple WYSIWYG is in place. It works really well. The “HTML” section is pretty cool, but all the codes are stuck on one line which makes it difficult to edit
3. nice “fish eye” effect on inserting rich media
4. you can insert “images”, “sound”, “video”, and “Web Cam”. woooooo, “Web Cam”. I’m not 100% sure how that one works since i don’t have one at work, but i’ll give it try when i get home. I think it records a video using flash and then post it.
5. I love how inserting an image is sooooooo easy and smooth. It let’s you select an image out of your computer first, and then takes you through a simple dialog that let’s you select width, height. Once you are done, it automatically places the image into your post at the cursor point.
6. listing of the existing post is ok. It uses the standard flex grid for displaying and the support of international charcters is still not too great (at least the japanese characters i have for Haruhi is not showing correctly)
So far, no words yet on what technology was used to create this application. yes, i know it is AIR, but i’m talking about the scripting. By looking at the Grid and WYSIWYG, I’m guessing it is done in Flex.
