Flock First Impressions

22 Oct 2005

Looks like a browser, acts like a browser, must be a browser….right?

So I downloaded Flock‘s developer preview this morning. I’m actually posting this from Flock’s internal blog editor so if it works as expected that’s +1 for them.  The editor has a few UI oddities but given the 0.5pre designation, those are to be expected.

It looks like an interesting idea and I look forward to future enhancements with the del.icio.us integration.  Many of my del.icio.us tags are dot separated and I’d like the browser to build a favourite’s list with drop-downs derived from the tag hierarchy.  There’s a firefox plugin already that does this so I don’t think this would be overly difficult to implement.  It would also be nice to have the ability to put tags into categories and have them realized as drop-downs within the toolbar. 

Overall I like the emphasis on tagged content and I look forward to future releases.  I’m sure I’ll have more comments as I continue to experiment with it, but my first impressions are positive. 

*Edit: *I’m not sure I like the way the built-in editor html-ized my post, makes it a tad difficult to modify the post from within wordpress. Another interesting feature: Flock recognized when I was logging into wordpress and asked if I wanted to save the password.

*Update: * Bart (from Flock) has given a good description of just what Flock is, what it hopes to accomplish, and why it is what it is.