Joe Friend Releases Blog Tool for Office 2007 and Validates My Developer Existence
I’ve only just heard: “ [Blogging from Word 2007](C:~shares\dataRoot\MSWord\Non-Fiction\Journal\Blogging from Word 2007)” by Joe Friend reinforces again the need to leverage decades of Microsoft Word development for the Web-based publishing systems out there. There are trackbacks and comments about this tool galore! This is what jumps out at me:
Publishing clean HTML to your blog… That’s right. No more verbose Word HTML. The goal for this feature is not pure fidelity, but the right fidelity for your blog.
Seemingly in response to this statement, a brave beta tester writes:
``That’s great, but what’s up with the upper-case and font tags like these? ...
<P><FONT size=2><EM><STRONG>
Ha! Typical Microsoft disrespect for HTML and XHTML! Of course I had to leave a self-serving comment to this Blog post featuring a big, fat link to “CleanXHTML for Microsoft Office Word 2003.” Speaking of self-serving, it may help to mention, dear reader, that all of the Blog posts you read in the rasx() context are written in Word (in one, big ass XML file) and pasted into WordPress for your eager eyes.