Try Blogger's New Interface
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Try Blogger's New Interface
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#3It looks nice, but it doesn't feel quite right.
Too much functionality depends on iconography, which leaves me having to map pictograms to actual words. It's OK for me to read some words. You're going to have to translate the interface anyways.
And there's very little use of contrast or color to help determine what is going on. My blogs and the reading list don't have a lot to differentiate each other, so I was initially confused where I would even go to post to my blog.
Also, the "New Blog" button is confusing. Are people really creating that many new blogs that they need a huge, highlighted button for it? I thought it was to make a new post (using "blog" as a verb, really), so I was confused when I click it and got something else.
Pretty attractive update, but fairly bad functionality and usability.
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#4This is nice! It also fits the pending revisions of blogger etc to unify the google ui styles etc.
one thing I recently discovered about blogger that won me over is this: you can have you default draft template include the right commands to import the mathjax javascript into every post, so I can then just write inline and display math latex naively with \[ some math \] and \( math \) and it'll just work! (both in preview of post, and the live post!)
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#5This is nice! It also fits the pending revisions of blogger etc to unify the google ui styles etc.
one thing I recently discovered about blogger that won me over is this: you can have you default draft template include the right commands to import the mathjax javascript into every post, so I can then just write inline and display math latex naively with \[ some math \] and \( math \) and it'll just work! (both in preview of post, and the live post!)
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#6They are doing browser detection instead of feature detection.
"ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file. The compile time user.agent value (opera) does not match the runtime user.agent value (unknown). Expect more errors."
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#7Anyone mind posting a screenshot? I'd like to see the UI but I don't want to create a blog on Blogger just to see it.
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#8What happened to the new templates they announced at the end of March? I liked the look and was hoping to try one out for a personal project.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/fresh-new-perspective...
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#9They are doing browser detection instead of feature detection. "ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file. The compile time user.agent value (opera) does not match the runtime user.agent value (unknown). Expect more errors."
It basically looks the same in Opera. (Unfortunately, I'm tempted to say.)
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#10Inexplicable. I'm pretty sure Google just released some kind of new social product (although I've been having trouble finding links around here). The word on the street is also that Google has some kind of reader app (the name escapes me). These two things are what this Blogger interface does, so why on earth aren't they integrated?
Instead, they've taken a similar starting point (lightweight, white-heavy design that runs using Javascript and back-end data) and created something lifeless and disconnected from everything else.
This is Big Company Syndrome at work; exactly the kind of thing that you'd expect from a company like Microsoft, rather than the company that just released the best web app in years.