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Matthew Phillips

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Oct 22, 2009, 4:49:02 AM10/22/09
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Can anyone recommend blogging software which works well with RISC OS
browsers? That is, a blogging platform on which you can log in and edit
posts and use the essential admin features (don't mind if we have to use
Firefox for the rarer aspects of blog management). We've tried installing
WordPress on our web site, but could not even log in with NetSurf, and
Oregano 2 crashed when we tried to edit a posting.

Thanks,

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Kevin Wells

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Oct 22, 2009, 9:42:53 AM10/22/09
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In message <8c8b24ae5...@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
Matthew Phillips <mn...@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

Cutenews works well with Oregano 1, WordPress also works with Oregano1
but is very slow.


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Alan Calder

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Oct 22, 2009, 12:01:30 PM10/22/09
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In article <82723fae...@talktalk.net>, Kevin Wells

> >Can anyone recommend blogging software which works well with RISC OS
> >browsers? That is, a blogging platform on which you can log in and
> >edit posts and use the essential admin features (don't mind if we have
> >to use Firefox for the rarer aspects of blog management). We've tried
> >installing WordPress on our web site, but could not even log in with
> >NetSurf, and Oregano 2 crashed when we tried to edit a posting.
> >

> Cutenews works well with Oregano 1, WordPress also works with Oregano1
> but is very slow.

Livejournal seems to work ok with Netsurf. At least to the extent that I
can login and make an entry OK although Netsurf doesn't format the page
entirely correctly so that the Post entry button is obscured but pressing
Enter does the job.. Manage to do the password changing stuff as well
though it did suggest it would be easier if I had Javascript turned on.

Inserting images doesn't seem possible as that and other advanced functions
needs Javascript.

Works also in much the same way with O1 but layout of the page is a mess.

Cheers

Alan

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Kevin Wells

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Oct 23, 2009, 12:00:32 PM10/23/09
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Kevin Wells <kevin...@talktalk.net> wrote:

>In message <8c8b24ae5...@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
> Matthew Phillips <mn...@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone recommend blogging software which works well with RISC OS
>>browsers? That is, a blogging platform on which you can log in and edit
>>posts and use the essential admin features (don't mind if we have to use
>>Firefox for the rarer aspects of blog management). We've tried installing
>>WordPress on our web site, but could not even log in with NetSurf, and
>>Oregano 2 crashed when we tried to edit a posting.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>
>Cutenews works well with Oregano 1, WordPress also works with Oregano1
>but is very slow.
>
>

With Cutenews you can use NetSurf, but you cannot have multiple
categories and no Short Full story choice.

There was an earlier version of Wordpress that did work with NetSurf.

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Vince M Hudd

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Oct 23, 2009, 3:04:08 PM10/23/09
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(I'm quoting from a reply because I don't appear to have the original.)

> > > Can anyone recommend blogging software which works well with RISC OS
> > > browsers? That is, a blogging platform on which you can log in and
> > > edit posts and use the essential admin features (don't mind if we have
> > > to use Firefox for the rarer aspects of blog management). We've tried
> > > installing WordPress on our web site, but could not even log in with
> > > NetSurf, and Oregano 2 crashed when we tried to edit a posting.

One possibility that's open to you with WordPress is to set up an email
address for the blog (which you don't let anyone else know about), and you
then compose your entries in your email client and email them to the blog
address.

It might not be the ideal solution - it depends exactly what else can and
can't be done with NetSurf, and what you consider "rarer aspects of blog
management" - but it's a possibility.

Other blogging systems might offer a similar facility. Dunno. I only know
it's there with WordPress because I set it up on one of my domains
yesterday.

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Soft Rock Software

Matthew Phillips

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Oct 24, 2009, 3:37:21 AM10/24/09
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on 23 Oct 2009 Vince M Hudd wrote:

> One possibility that's open to you with WordPress is to set up an email
> address for the blog (which you don't let anyone else know about), and you
> then compose your entries in your email client and email them to the blog
> address.

Thanks - that is an interesting option.

We're managing with Oregano 1 at the moment, which does limit making postings
to the RISC PC. I expect we'll delve into the PHP code and fix the login
issues in due course.

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