Internet Explorer 8 and posting to your Typepad Blog
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Ted Tschopp
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https://tedt.org/2008/03/05/internet-explorer-8-and-posting-to-your-typepad-blog/
I downloaded IE8 today and noticed it had a new way to post to Microsoft’s blog by highlighting some text and sending it off to their blogging service.
Here is the code that will make it work in Typepad:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<openServiceDescription xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/openservicedescription/1.0>">
<homepageUrl>http://www.typepad.com/t/app</homepageUrl>
<display>
<name>Blog in Typepad</name>
<icon>http://www.tschopp.net/favicon.ico</icon>
<description>Post this in my Blog</description>
</display>
<activity category="Blog">
<activityAction context="selection">
<execute method="get" action="http://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post">
<parameter name="title" value="{documentTitle}" />
<parameter name="SourceURL" value="{documentUrl}" />
<parameter name="blog_id" value="16627" />
<parameter name="text" value="{selection}" />
<parameter name="keywords" value="{keywords}" />
</execute>
</activityAction>
<activityAction context="document">
<execute method="get" action="http://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post">
<parameter name="title" value="{documentTitle}" />
<parameter name="blog_id" value="16627" />
<parameter name="SourceURL" value="{documentUrl}" />
</execute>
</activityAction>
<activityAction context="link">
<execute method="get" action="http://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post">
<parameter name="title" value="{linkTitle}" />
<parameter name="blog_id" value="16627" />
<parameter name="SourceURL" value="{link}" />
</execute>
</activityAction>
</activity>
</openServiceDescription>
- Copy and paste this into a Text file.
- Name it typepad.xml
-
Replace blog_Id with your blog ID
- Browse to http://www.typepad.com/t/app
- Click on the blog you want to post to
- Observe the URL http://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/manage?blog_id=16627
- Replace the
with your favicon - Save the document
- Upload file to your Typepad account
- Create a new HTML file
- Name it typepad.html
- Put the following code in the html file:
<A href=”javascript:window.external.addService(‘http://www.tschopp.net/typepad.xml’);”>Click Here</a>
- Replace my URL with the URL to the XML file you created above
- Save file
- Upload File to Typepad
- Browse to HTML file
- Click on link
Let me know how it goes. I will post updates later this week to get more than just selections working. I also want to expand this to other services. Let me know how this is working for you.