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I’m posting this entry from my iPhone today, using a new app called BlogWriter.  It works, kind of, though it’s abundantly clear to me that to be great, such an app really needs an improved way to enter URLs, and needs to not cover up the text of your post with the keyboard.  It’s impossible to see what you’re typing past one or two sentences.  I had to edit this in my normal control panel after submitting with the iPhone, because after the words "such an app", my typing was all taking place behind the iPhone keyboard, completely obscured, with no way to scroll or move things out of the way.

On top of that, it’s a poor implementation of the MetaWeblog API, as it only supports one field.  For a $10 app, this really isn’t acceptable.  Or a free app for that matter - a distributed app should do what it advertises, regardless of the price.  Oh well. :\

Update: I was reminded that the default MetaWeblog API does in fact only have one field.  I’ve just never used it in a context outside of the Moveable Type API which extends the MetaWeblog API to allow four fields.  My apologies to the application author, as on that particular point, it does in fact do what it says, though it would be infinitely more useful to support the additional fields that the aforementioned extension to the API affords.