But the bad behavior persists in editing a URL. The post below, the one that attempts to give my public URL, has been edited here in Chrome to display the correct value visually — but the underlying link is still wrong, and I have not found a way to edit that, short of deleting the entire URL character-by-character, saving, editing again, and retyping it.
Yep, the editing weirdness (inability to delete) is on Safari. I'm using Chrome now and just successfully resolved a bunch of typos in the previous post.
Note the errors in the previous post: an extra "an," too much punctuation at the end. Those resulted because I cannot seem actually to delete anything once typed: neither on initial entry or upon subsequent editing. (Perhaps a limitation of Safari? To be checked out.) And all the garbage at the end of the post — that's the result of what I had to do to fix a typo, namely put the cursor in front of it and leave it in place, to accumulate at the end.
The Set image... menu command is not exactly intuitive. It collects a link to an the desired image, but you can't actually use images from the web. I presume you would be allowed to link to an image on the server hosting the blog ("chatlog"),...
OK good. When editing a post (having clicked in its displayed form), Escape cancels out. Just as it should.
Still a few bugs in the editing environment. Does not honor a click to place cursor while entering a URL; where the cursor ends up looks to be indeterminate. Also, if you edit a URL you will get strange results, like in the previous post. The newly added text does not become part of the URL, and the link still points to where it did before editing.
Oh very cool. I can just click anywhere in a post to open the editor. That's slick!
OK fine. I can make quick posts like Twitter allows, but without the character limitation. But where do I find these posts on the web? my.1999.io will just get me to a login / my account, right? How does anyone else access these posts?
Also, can I edit after posting? Delete a post?
Trying out 1999.io. Blogging like it was 1999? Hardly. In 1999 I was using BBEdit and Fetch / FTP.