The Windows Live Writer team has issued an updated beta that fixes a few issues and provides a flexible new tagging option. Here is a summary of the changes in the latest beta:
- Tagging support
- Support for Blogger Beta
- Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
- Improved startup performance
- Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
- Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
- Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
- Custom date support for Community Server
- Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
- Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
- Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
- More robust image posting to Live Spaces
- Improved style detection for blogs
- Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
- Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
- Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts
I’m working on customizing the tagging option for Technorati as shown in the tags below. You have the ability to edit the HTML code for the tags – looks good so far!
Check out the Windows Live Writer space for more details.
