No. I keep trying, but no, I can't.

Why? I can only get as far as the above title before Movable Type's AJAX conspires against my Nokia N95's browser. I have tried to use the file uploader, which I was able to use from my phone's browser with MT 3.4, but in MT 4 the file uploader uses Lightbox and I can't toggle around in it enough to press "upload" on my phone. And for whatever reason, in the mobile browser, I am unable to fill any text into the "body" of the post. Frustrating. I could do all of this from my Nokia N80 and the N95 with MT 3.4, but not with Movable Type 4.0.

Bah. Desktop/Laptop-centric blogging software. Bah.

What ever happened to Progressive Enhancement and Unobtrusive AJAX? Have Steve, Jeremy, and other standardistas been preaching to the wind? I should hope not. Web based software and applications should be device agnostic and the site should work whether the device has javascript or not.

Why try and why care? In less than 5 days, I get on a plane for Europe for the great "Ditch Thanksgiving 2007 Tour" or the "Let's cash in frequent flyer miles go to London, Ireland, and Spain for 3 weeks Tour". Whilst I am gone, I don't want to pay AT&T my arm and Scruffy's leg for international data fees to post photos and text to this blog, so I will be using my UK Vodafone sim chip with Pay As You Go that I have overly topped up. Only problem is that sometime in the last year, since I was last last ( previous to the last time) in the UK, Vodafone changed their PAYG plan and it is really really hard to mobile blog with the non-contract PAYG.

When I was in the UK for various events in 2006, I was able to to use about £20 per week on PAYG to send my photos as MMS's to my Flickr account, Flickr would then send them on to my blog. At the beginning of Ocober, when I was in London for FOWA 2007, I found that it appeared that I sent photos to Flickr via MMS, my N95 confirmed the photo was sent, and later when I would check there would be no photo on Flickr. Vodafone UK's MMS was not interacting with Flickr.

When I attempted to use Lifeblog, it was a no go as Lifeblog uses email/ISP data to send and with a PAYG account one does not get email/ISP data. I then tried to use Flickr's mobile uploader, but that did not work as it wanted to go through the MMS to send the photo. ShoZu was not working for me at all while in London and upon reading ShoZu's forum's it is not enough to change your Access Point, you have to reactivate for each APN.

The best part is that Vodafone PAYG's data plans, both 3G & WAP, have Flickr blocked as adult / unappropriate content. The whole week I was in the UK this Oct, I tried to get Vodafone to unblock it to no avail.

Vodafone, you may have the best 3G connections in the UK and Ireland, but you live in the dark ages. Flickr should not be blocked, nor should my MMS. If I pay you for a sim chip and top up, let me use the PAYG £s however I want. Don't trottle me. Give me 3G unblocked, give me MMS, give me email/ISP. I will pay for it, give it to me.

I want to be able to use my Nokia to blog as I go, not wait until I get back to my computer to bluetooth the photos to my MacBook Pro and then load them up to Movable Type 4, if I have a wifi connection (the UK yes, Ireland & Spain most likely no). Thus, my experiments this week with trying to post directly from my phone's browser to my MT4 installation. If it works here, it should work in the UK, Ireland, and Spain. Except it isn't working here due to the MT4 obtrusive, non-progressive javascript.