A small request to Six Apart...
So here's a tiny thing that I'd be really interested in seeing in a subsequent version of Movable Type. It's so small it's barely worth mentioning - particularly as the proper search function has now been integrated. But nonetheless it would make my life slightly more simple.
When I'm editing an entry, I'd just like a link that would take me to the current live version of that post. That's all. Just a link which would allow me to bounce out of my MT installation to see what it looks like live, without having to battle to find it amid nearly four-years of almost-daily posting... Obviously, this is also an indictment of the terrible way I currently have my search engine configured. But I just think it could be useful and it should be pretty easy, I think...
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
I think you're correct, it shouldn't be that hard to implement as a link or additional button on the edti entry screen.
I would also like to add my own "so little its not worth mentioning" feature -- the preview of an entry is rendered with the primary template is will be displayed in. I get a lot of "false positives" in the MT entry preview that my own template would disagree with.
→ Posted by: Timothy Appnel at June 18, 2003 7:54 PM
There's a feature request forum on the Movable Type website, and naturally Ben & Mena are ultra-responsive. I bet they'd add something like this, or someone would provide a pretty easy way to edit the software to add it yourself. Have a look-see at movabletype.org.
→ Posted by: brian w at June 18, 2003 8:56 PM