{"id":125,"date":"2007-06-12T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/flock\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T20:31:16","slug":"flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/flock\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\">Flock<\/a> for about a month now and I&#8217;ve come to realise a few things about it. I shall sum it up in some basic points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good things:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\nIts fast at loading pages<br \/>\nIts fast at opening<br \/>\nIt looks rather elegant &#8211; different from Safari, but the social bookmarking features are useful (not that I make great use of the social aspect of them!)<br \/>\nIt works with pretty much every page I&#8217;ve tried it with<br \/>\nThe searching of the text on recent pages with the searchbar at the top of the browser window is incredibly useful\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bad Things:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\nTest boxes are a pain, sometimes the cursor does not want to appear, sometimes it appears more than once. Other times, it is impossible to highlight words.<br \/>\nThe search bar is a bother when trying to highlight more than one word at once by double\/triple clicking. When highlighting, it rarely works either!<br \/>\nThe lack of in browser pdf viewing is tiresome. There&#8217;s probably a plugin but that requires effort to find it.<br \/>\nThe only plugin I&#8217;ve tried (to restore tabs) kept becoming unresponsive with Flock giving me a bloody warning every once in a while.<br \/>\nTabs, let alone pages do not restore after quitting (They do in FF2!)<br \/>\nThe download window doesn&#8217;t remember what you Apps you chose to open certain file types, .torrents in particular!<br \/>\nThe blog writing bit formats your text wierdly, making it a slightly different style and size to the WordPress default.<br \/>\nThe browser window occasionally wants to place itself in front of everything else&#8230; even the dock and menubar. This can only be sorted thru quitting and reopening the app. <em>This seems to have been sorted with the most recent update<\/em>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other than these small minor things, which I will hopefully update if I find any more quibbles\/problems\/glitches, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\">Flock<\/a> is great. <\/p>\n<p>The only thing preventing me using it more is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\">Safari 3 Beta<\/a> has just be released. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Flock for about a month now and I&#8217;ve come to realise a few things about it. I shall sum it up in some basic points&#8230; Good things: Its fast at loading pages Its fast at opening It looks rather elegant &#8211; different from Safari, but the social bookmarking features are useful (not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/flock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flock!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}