Dear All

I am working on an extension for the Danphe version of Flock, and with the forthcoming release of Cormarant in which it will work, I would like to kindly ask those that are testing the cormarant builds to have a look at this extension and offer any suggestions.

The extension is hard to sum up as it is a large collection of different tools/functions but here goes:

Text Selection: Select text with your mouse and up pops a contextual toolbar just below the text selection. This will stay in a semi-opaque state for 1.5 seconds unless your mouse over it. Common text operations are contained within, including a quicklink textbox (type the url then hit return). Mouseout of the contextual toolbar and it will disappear.

Middle click: A small contextual toolbar for non-text selection based operations.

Link click: If you have already inserted a link, click on it to bring up a small link contextual toolbar, to either unlink it, alter the url or open up the Link Plus dialog (alter many attributes of a link, not just it's url).

Image click: Click on an image to bring up the Image Plus dialog, which allows you to alter many attributes of an image. Please note that this is at present in the blog sidebar as I have not yet had a chance to move it into a popup dialog.

Preset Markup: This sidebar allows you to create, store, edit and apply preset html markup to highlighted text, such as css styles or html element attributes (id, class, title). This is particulalrly useful for improving productivity for microformat creation.

Tag Plus: This sidebar allows you to create, store, edit and insert tags the way you want them, not as supplied by default from flock. The tags, which also include Ultimate Tag Warrior insertion, will be inserted into the bottom of your blog post before publishing, allowing a better appraisal of your final post.
Other functionality includes tag suggestions based on your blog content and 8 different Blogged With Flock options, again these are inserted into the bottom of your post.

Quikmaps: This sidebar allows you to insert a dynamic google map into your blog post, whereby you can change many of its attributes such as centre location, map type, controls, zoom etc. If you want to add markers or already have a quikmap, then go to quikmaps and set up your map and use the quikmap id.

Also a dictionary/thesaurus and dedicated hCalendar sidebar.

In addition to all of the above, a number of toolbar buttons have been supplied, including blockquote, code, smilies and websnapr image link insertion (if you have not yet noticed, you can right click and customize the cormarant blog toolbar).

I should point out this is still in development and still needswork, but with your help can iron out any issues before cormarant is officially released.

Please visit http://flock.spatialviews.com and go get 'Blogplus'

yours, mctones