Comments on: Desktop Blogging Clients

By: The Argument For Software as a Service « Raanan Bar-Cohen

The Argument *For* Software as a Service « Raanan Bar-Cohen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:18:00 +0000

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By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:34:18 +0000

Tod: I’ve prioritized different features in MarsEdit than WYSIWYG. I agree it will be an awesome feature and very important to a certain category of user, once I get the time to do it right.

I’m curious what you’re alluding to when you describe malformed URLs. I would consider this a bug, and if you get a chance to let me know what it is, exactly, I will be sure to put it on my fix list.

Perhaps the reason you can’t understand why so many other people like it is because other people have different priorities than you do. I certainly don’t aspire to be a modern FrontPage, if that’s the standard of success

By: todmaffin

todmaffin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:45:55 +0000

MarsEdit is crap. I really don’t understand why people like it. It makes malformed URLs, drag-and-drop (photos) doesn’t exist, its multiple-window interface is archaic, and there’s no WYSIWYG.

Come on, even FrontPage (PC) had WYSIWYG nearly a decade ago.

By: Karen Jackie

Karen Jackie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:00:05 +0000

We often recommend Adobe Contribute ( http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute/ ) for those who are willing to pay a few bucks or ScribeFire, a FireFox add-on, ( http://www.scribefire.com/ ) for those looking for free tools.

By: Windows Live Writer | TaintedSong v10

Windows Live Writer | TaintedSong v10 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:22:08 +0000

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By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:58:09 +0000

Windows Live Writer has implemented most of the new XML-RPC features that we’ve been adding to WordPress. Unfortunately it only works on Windows. For Mac OS X MarsEdit it probably the best client out there (free or not).

We’d be thrilled to work with other XML-RPC clients to improve their support for WordPress. I’d be happy to answer questions about the new features we’ve been adding, developers are welcome to contact me directly or on the wp-xmlrpc email list that Raanan mentioned.

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:10:30 +0000

Their is also ecto ( http://infinite-sushi.com/software/ecto/ ) for Mac and Windows, but I still prefer MarsEdit.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:32:09 +0000

I love Windows Live Writer. Aside from using it for creating blog posts, I use it to manage drafts and ideas for posts I would like to get around to writing. Its simple interface and feature set also makes it great for writing and saving simple documents that don’t need all the extra stuff that Word has.

By: hombrelobo

hombrelobo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:28:01 +0000

My favorite for windows by far is Blogdesk: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm

And I haven’t found any good one for ubuntu ….