I am using builds from the Wednesday, Dec 21 on MacOS and MSWin, and they work well.

“[...] I am still interested in how Rich (normal) Editing and Live Preview are different.”

I think you make a good point. I think though it would an interesting option to have this Live Preview option as it would allow you to see exactly how the weblog post would actually look like. Only thing that I am not sure I agree with is the fact that it does not show the hyperlinks as it should. Qumana, despite the fact that it is also an WYSIWYG weblogging editor, has got this preview option where it does a very clean job on how the weblog post should look like. However, I do agree with you about the fact that if that feature would be left out I would think there wouldn’t be too much of an impact.

“Now, I see this save as “note” option, but I think of drafts and notes as very different things. “

Although I haven’t tried out the latest developments from the weblogging component from Flock, I must say that I find this Notes feature very handy. I know that drafts and notes would be different but if I take the example from other weblogging tools you have got lots of restrictions when creating the drafts whereas with this Notes option you can have many of them storing those different weblog posts you may be working on. And just grabbing their content is just a single click away. I find that is a very powerful feature, specially for advanced webloggers. I will let you know of my experience when I try the latest build from Flock though and see how it actually feels like.

Regarding your comments about SpellBound your link to Asa does not seem to be active, at least, it is not working with me, but I have installed the extension as well and will have a look and see how it actually goes. Thanks for the tip, though. I hope it works out the way I expect it to.

“Pingback/trackback in the client is something that we have considered for Flock, but many blogging platform do it themselves.”

From this comment above I take you guys are not planning into incorporating Pingback/Trackback. If that is the case I would suggest you revisit it again as that is one of the key fundamental features that allows webloggers to not behave like islands in a huge ocean but as a complex network of islands linked to one another and with a connection by enabling conversations to take place. If that feature is not put together for Flock I would think that not many webloggers would take it into account, specially since quite a few webloggers are relying on them to get themselves a space in the Blogosphere. Anyway, thanks again for the feedback and look forward to trying out the latest build from Flock.

The notes thing confused me, and I could not figure out how to save quotes from web pages as notes. Now, I see this save as “note” option, but I think of drafts and notes as very different things. This is why Flock’s shelfs is so useful for me, and why an integrated experience will be even more compelling as Flock develops.

In regards to Luis’s comment about no spell checking, Asa writes “The latest development build of SpellBound integrates seamlessly with this blogging tool.” Flock needs to get spell checking available to all form fields! (bug)

Pingback/trackback in the client is something that we have considered for Flock, but many blogging platform do it themselves.