Things I Wish Windows Live Writer Would Have

I love Windows Live Writer, it takes the slowness and spelling errors, and linking, and inserting pictures/objects so much easier. After all, shouldn’t a blog be about the content, not about how to get the content into the blog’s CMS?

Windows Live Writer does that. It’s a desktop application (that runs on Windows, obviously) that lets you publish content to virtually any blogging engine. I’ve personally tested it on

• WordPress 1.x
• WordPress 2.5.x
• BlogEngine.Net
• Community Server 2007
• SubText

What’s more, you can configure any number of blogs in it, so you can write an article and publish it one blog, then write another article on another topic in the same UI, and publish it to another blog. Quick. Easy. Fast. Consistent UI. Just the way I like it.

It also has a plug-architecture that allows developers to write “stuff” that makes doing “things” easier (is that generic enough?). For example, you can have a plug-in that allows you to insert a Windows Live Map object, or a YouTube video object. Cool.

So what would I like?

Here’s my wish list:

• Add the rev, class, and id attributes to the anchor dialog box

• add common XFN, license, common MicroFormat values, etc. to the field’s drop-down lists

• Devote a section to the in the right-channel
• Add an hCard (with or without Geo)
• Add an hReview
• Add an hCalendar / event
• Markup with abbr

How about you?

What would you like to see included in Windows Live Writer?