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Drummer browser outliner/blogmaker from Dave Winer (freeware)
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Posted by Maurice Parker
Oct 19, 2021 at 06:32 AM
Manton works amazingly fast. I think he still needs to add support for images, but that shouldn’t take him too long.
The CMS that Dave created that works with Drummer is called Old School. I think I should be able to push OPML files to Old School from Zavala. That would make for a more user friendly UI (in my humble opinion). I find Drummer to be a bit clunky.
The main obstacle is that Drummer produces an extended version of OPML that is different than Zavala does. Zavala uses Markdown for formatting and linking in OPML files and it looks like Dave is using HTML in his extended OPML. Dave has also extended it other areas and adding other tags that Zavala doesn’t understand, like for inline image linking. I suppose the Markdown to HTML conversion is easy enough. As long as the user stays away from images, I think I could get it working in short order.
I’ll keep my eye on Old School as a possible publishing platform. I’m not sold on it yet and would probably be better served by implementing Word Press publishing first.
Posted by Maurice Parker
Oct 19, 2021 at 06:32 AM
Manton works amazingly fast. I think he still needs to add support for images, but that shouldn’t take him too long.
The CMS that Dave created that works with Drummer is called Old School. I think I should be able to push OPML files to Old School from Zavala. That would make for a more user friendly UI (in my humble opinion). I find Drummer to be a bit clunky.
The main obstacle is that Drummer produces an extended version of OPML that is different than Zavala does. Zavala uses Markdown for formatting and linking in OPML files and it looks like Dave is using HTML in his extended OPML. Dave has also extended it other areas and adding other tags that Zavala doesn’t understand, like for inline image linking. I suppose the Markdown to HTML conversion is easy enough. As long as the user stays away from images, I think I could get it working in short order.
I’ll keep my eye on Old School as a possible publishing platform. I’m not sold on it yet and would probably be better served by implementing Word Press publishing first.
Posted by Maurice Parker
Oct 19, 2021 at 06:33 AM
Looks like there is a glitch in the Matrix. Double post!
Posted by satis
Jan 17, 2022 at 10:19 PM
In addition Dave Winer’s continued work on Drummer as an outliner-based scripting system for web(sites) he’s just created a Treechart app that hooks up with Drummer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5DAQwL_eNE