Roland Tanglao's Weblog

Not so great when you have over 300 tags! Oh well time to go back to Ecto which is not very pretty but does tag search and auto-complete

The very rudimentary WYSIWYG mode in ecto is not so great but it's far better than staring at HTML code (which I know, love and curse daily). So much as I'd love to, I can't use MarsEdit 1.2 since it still doesn't have a WYSIWYG mode. Still using ecto! Alas, no progress has been made in WYSIWYG Mac blog editor's since ecto introduced it in 2004 :-( ! It's 2007, could we please have a real WYSIWYG mode in Mac blog editors? I know that true WYSIWYG is hard but even something that moves the state of the art forward like handling nested lists properly would be great!

Unfortunately neither ecto or MarsEdit have a solution that can handle 100s of categories (how about some kind of auto-complete?) that Drupal free tagging allows you to create as pioneered by del.icio.us and flickr!

I haven't experienced any of Jonathan's problems. I switched from MarsEdit to ecto simply because MarsEdit can't handle (MarsEdit takes all the CPU time, is it looping through all the categories?) my Drupal sites that have hundreds of categories due to freetagging. I would like to switch back because I like MarsEdit's interface far better. Brent, please fix this bug!

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I very much in love with NetNewsWire, however, I’ve given up on MarsEdit, replacing it with the vastly superior Ecto tool. Roland was right. MarsEdit did strange things, like not completing uploads to sites (even though it would post), and taking it’s dear, sweet time when the box was 11 inches from it on GigE. So, if anyone wants a copy of MarsEdit, I’d be happy to give it to them - I’ve paid for both, and will only be using Ecto from here on in.

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