ecto

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

Really looking forward to ecto3's new WYSIWYG editor that supports nested lists. I tried ecto3 in the last 2 posts (using the MovableType settings for my Drupal site) but I can't use it because it doesn't recognize new categories added on the server side and new categories on the ecto 3 alpha client don't show up on the Drupal server side.

I'll report my findings to the support forum and monitor the situation. Once the bugs are shaken out, it looks like a great new release (many new features coming e.g. the ability to type a few characters and whittle down my 794 categories rocks for example!). Go Adriaan go!

From infinite-sushi.com - ecto3 alpha:

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First of all, ecto3 is not ecto2.

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.One of the biggest changes is that ecto3 has a new rich text editor, one that is based on Apple's very own Editable WebKit. It allowed me to do the nested list above. It does the job far better than ecto2, but it's not perfect yet. More than 3500 lines of code interface between the GUI editor and WebKit to make it work for blogging.

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.So far, ecto3 has support for MovableType, WordPress and Blogger. There's a custom version of the MovableType plugin for Conversant, a Vox plugin is on the way, as well as a plugin that will use the old Blogger API for some of the blog systems around that haven't gone with the times. This basically means that people using MovableType, WordPress or Blogger are the best candidates for playing with this alpha version, for now.

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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!

FROM Get organized, blog like crazy, get rid of spam, get a mac. at Evolved Combat:

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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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