Rijk - Add a 'BlogThis!' button to Opera

Add a 'BlogThis!' button to Opera

Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

Add a 'BlogThis!' button, for those with a Blogger.com account. Select a quote from a web page and press your new button to get a blog compose window. In Opera 8 beta 2, you can finally use the layout buttons for Bold and Italic (though they insert the markup for STRONG and EM strangely enough) etc in the compose window.

It's a bit hard to add a clickable button link to a Journal post, so I'll redirect you to my buttons webpage to pick it up:

<http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/dndbuttons.html>

Shortcut for security info in beta 2About user scripts in beta 3

Comments

TreeGo # Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

Blogger.com is incompatible with Opera 8 Beta 2, is it not?

Rijk # Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

The buttons to enter HTML code in the postings editor are broken. For those who know a little HTML it was not problem to use Blogger, just type HTML directly in the textarea. Opera beta 2 introduces partial support for what such online HTML editors need: manipulation by script of the textarea content. Their script is so complex though that I don't know if Opera doesn't support enough, or their browser-detection is so complex I can't unravel it. Hallvord mentioned Blogger.com already in his Journal 'Miscoded'.

Yesterday I discovered that the mini-editor you get with the BlogThis button is already fully usable in Opera 8 beta 2. Which was my motivation for posting about this button here now

TreeGo # Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

Hmmm... I cannot type anything in the textarea on Blogger with Opera Beta 2.

Paolo Veceplovec # Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

You can type in the text area: the problem is that the buttons above the area aren't working with Opera.

If you want a bold word you can use HTML such as in:
<strong>This is bold!</strong>

Rijk # Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

They worked for me, plovec - in Opera 8 beta 2 that is. This release has introduced support for this functionality.

TreeGo, the idea is that you select a quote from the page and then click the 'Blogthis' button. As is the case with such buttons, you'll need to have the 'Reuse page' setting enabled.

Alexey AlexeyevLXj # Friday, March 4, 2005 1:51:34 AM

As for me I couldn't type *anything* in the textarea

SŁAWEKs7awek # Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:33:54 AM

i tried my opera to identify as itself, ie and mozilla. no html editing works. you can't see any buttons. except spellchecking. but you can choose which weblog to post to. this is really neat.