So, I just got the Flock Developer Preview (build 0.4.8).
It’s like Firefox on drugs. Blogger drugs. Pretty neat looking, it works (well, it’s basically just rebranded Firefox with some extras), and it might even bring the revolution it so loudly speaks of on the website. At the very least, its “feed” button is large and obvious.
They really should get a GUI/usability person working on the interface though. Having fields not accessible by keyboard is unacceptable. The improved search box never tells you how improved it is until you notice by chance – the interface is not obvious, and confusing. And then the freaking Options dialog is too narrow for its contents, how did that get by QA?
Flock’s tools are quite nifty though. I’m writing this post from within Flock, via the prominent “Create blog post” button and XML-RPC. (It insists on putting <br /> before every </p>, I have no clue why. It also assumes I use HTML, when I use Markdown.)
Oh, and– as soon as you enable del.icio.us synchronization for your tags, the default favorites (naturally) get automatically added to your delicious account. And thus, Flock gets the top three spots at del.icio.us popular list within hours. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
More as I play around with that thang.
Greg Yardley raises some good points about Flock’s target market and competition.
I dont like the fact that it doesnt support importing bookmarks yet and you cant edit bookmarks properly, its very nice and its certainly a browser that i will keep installed but till they fix the bugs, im sticking with firefox