The UI seems to have taken a page from http://mouapp.com/
Do you think that it does a roundtrip to the server to get the preview or is it all done in JS?
Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
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Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#32Try trilldy.com
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#33There is no code or sample site.
Looks like a scam to me.
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#34I would be much more willing to pledge towards this if the current state of their code was available to see / install.
That would require the person doing the kickstarter to commit time to the project. I get the impression from most of these software-development kickstarters that the goal is to get payment in advance of the dev work.
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#35The UI seems to have taken a page from http://mouapp.com/
The Ghost design looks very polished. A shame to see the good efforts buried under marketing missteps.
The side-by-side authoring and editing is something I think a lot of folks are doing now in their personal blogs. For mine, I just used plain HTML rather than Markdown [1]. I wanted total control of the resulting markup. Beware, most people hate the background. Just fair warning.
The hard part for me was doing some trickery to scroll to and highlight the current paragraph in the live preview panel. I ended up inserting a "cursor" span that I locate in the preview panel and then scroll to that, find its containing block container, and add a class to that container [2].
[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/simplest-of-webapps
[2] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/images/tiamat-authoring-2012-10.pn...
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#36The UI seems to have taken a page from http://mouapp.com/
Do you think that it does a roundtrip to the server to get the preview or is it all done in JS?
I would hope it's done in JavaScript. And, based on the image uploading stuff, (you type something like `!image` and the preview adds in a drag-n-drop spot for an image), it looks like it.
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#37I hope http://blog.tryghost.org/ isn't intended as a demo. It's only a single article, no permalinks, no archives, no RSS/Atom feed.
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#38I hope http://blog.tryghost.org/ isn't intended as a demo. It's only a single article, no permalinks, no archives, no RSS/Atom feed.
But it certainly loads quickly.
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#39If you're going to be a non-profit, wouldn't it be better to establish the non-profit and then do a fundraising drive? Assuming it's a tax-deductible non-profit, you have an additional benefit to the donation.
Best of luck with the project!
Re: Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
#40I like the idea of an easy-to-use blogging platform, but I'm not completely sold on the use of markdown.
I'd rather see another syntax language that allowed me a few more controls, like the ability to add classes to elements in case I wanted to switch up styles a bit (maybe I don't want all blockquotes to look the same, or all lists, etc).