I switched to HTML to make a change that the WYSIWYG wouldn’t do correctly, switched back to WYSIWYG and Blogo wiped out my change.
#Marsedit vs live writer code
Pretty, but so buggy! Very difficult to edit the code it decides your blog needs.
Fine for me, not so much for my husband or colleagues.īlogo: If MarsEdit errs on the side of being too geek, Blogo goes too far in the other direction. If I want to edit the image’s size or alignment after I’ve placed it, I have to know the HTML to do it. I don’t mind it too much, but there are folks who are scared off by seeing code while they’re editing and would prefer the option for a cleaner view. Here’s what I’m looking at right now (for this example, I used Skitch for screenshot, uploaded to Flickr and then MarsEdit media editor which is connected to my Flickr account to insert): It would be wonderful if MarsEdit had a “Get Preview” button that did this for you once it has your blog URL. You have to set this up for yourself by copying the source of a blog entry to a template editor and then replace the title, body, etc with placeholder tags. And another that shows a preview of what the post will look like when posted that updates as you type in the editing window. While you’re writing you have two screens: An editing window that shows the raw code that you’re typing in. The problem with MarsEdit is its lack of a WYSIWYG or rich text editor. It’s powerful and stable and has a lot of great features. I love that its developer is still in the game, which is tons more than I can say about Ecto. I have a love/hate relationship with MarsEdit.
MarsEdit: It’s what I’m using to type this post. But the writing is on the wall: RIP Ecto. This is not new behavior for IllumineX (different player behind the scenes, same song). Eric wrote to them about something else a week ago and has heard nothing back. There’s a thread in the IllumineX support forums on it with no company response. Well-known knit blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee complains about it here. There’s a nasty little bug in the latest version where if you switch between the rich text and code view and delete the blank space at the top of the rich text view, your entire post disappears.
#Marsedit vs live writer software
Until the original developer sold his software to IllumineX and it all went to heck. It had a great image uploader, very configurable, lean markup and lots of other tricks up its sleeve. No WYSIWYG like in Live Writer, but fairly easy to switch between code and a rich text Word-like view. And I now only run Windows XP in VMWare Fusion when I absolutely have to.Īs I see it, if you want to use an offline editor on a Mac you only have 3 choices, each with its own strengths and overwhelming weaknesses.Įcto: This was my favorite editor for a long time.
#Marsedit vs live writer full
Full of unnecessary tags and other junk that caused all sorts of problems. The problem was that the code was pure Microsoft: crap. I loved that once configured, the editing window used your blog’s own style sheet so your typing appeared exactly how it would look on the blog. I really liked working in Windows Live Writer back when I was a fulltime Windows user. It seems like there’s more development energy going towards iPhone blog editors than desktop versions. I’m amazed that after all these years, no one has come out with a killer offline blog editor for the Mac yet.
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