One major annoyance when creating offline stories is that one does not get to the freshly created story, but to the story manager instead where you have links to edit/delete/publish the story, but can't read/view the story in its full presentation. The way I see it, creating stories offline often serves the purpose to re-read the story before publishing it - yet to do this, one has to click several times between the story manager interface where stories are set online and the story view where the story can be read/viewed.

I tried to fix this and I'm asking whether you agree that what I came up with is preferrable to the status quo. Here's what's changed:

• When a story is created, one is always redirected to the full story view. (This should always be viewable for the author, even on websites where the author does not hold any special roles, right?)
• I changed the story.onlinelink_macro default behavior to only display a link to set the story online if the story is offline, but not to set it offline if it is online. To get links in both directions, the macro must be called with the option mode="toggle".
• The default story/main.skin gets a story.onlinelink macro with default behaviour (i.e. link is only displayd to set story online if it is currently offline) next to the story.editlink. The storymanager view gets a story.onlinelink with mode="toggle", i.e the online/offline link is always displayed.

With these changes, creating a story as offline is equivalent to seeing a preview before publishing, with links to either do some more editing or set it online.

What do you think?