BETA: Windows Live Writer Beta 14.0.5025.904 (Sept 2008 release)

Posted by: kurtsh | October 2, 2008

Hey! New beta! And this time we finally added a font toolbar! Yay! Now if we could just get table copying correct…

Here’s what you can expect to find in this beta:

Image and video publishing enhancements

Insert videos from Soapbox and YouTube
Upload videos to Soapbox and YouTube
Image cropping and tilting
Additional border styles for images (such as reflection and rounded corners)
Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
Support for centering images

Blog authoring enhancements

Spell Checking in more languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian-Cyrillic, Serbian-Latin, Spanish, and Swedish
Auto Linking
Smart quotes/typographic characters
Word count

Experience improvements

New toolbar makes more commands – like Font formatting – readily available

Tabs for view switching

Improved category control with search and type-down filtering

New look and feel

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