I’ve been using MarsEdit recently for blogging and while it is a good tool it isn’t the best thing ever.

This blog post is coming out of ecto - another standalone blogging app. I’ll see how it fares over the next 21 trial days.

Here’s what I think MarsEdit could benefit from and what I hope ecto provides: some way to resize images to fit in the blog post, I currently have to jump out to Acorn or some other image editor to crop or resize images that I post to the blog.

The ability to paste images from the clipboard into a blog article.

MarsEdit asks you to enter content in raw HTML and I don’t mind that at all but they should take a look at how HTML editors and coder’s text editors make that easier with auto-open/close tags and tab completion.

Ecto has a rich text editor so that will be interesting to use and hopefully will provide the goodies vis-à-vis image editing.

Ooh, it does and it does it well. Drag and drop images and resizing within the post. Hopefully the upload experience will go well. This one above was from the file system.

I still think that MarsEdit has hope and that the best image workflow there is probably to roundtrip through flickr and let flickr do the resizing. It would make it relatively easy to link an image like the one above back to a full resolution original.

Now… let’s try ecto’s ability to take pastes from the copy/paste buffer.

Solid as anything. Cool.

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