Comments on: MarsEdit 1.1.3

By: Tim Altman

Tim Altman — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:41:03 +0000

The link in my post above is supposed to point to http://drupal.org/node/12984. Sorry about that.

By: Jaharmi

Jaharmi — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:40:03 +0000

Yes, and I see other people posted ideas in the comments to that effect. I didn’t have a chance to read all of them before I shot from the hip with mine.

I hope you’re able to see the issues that were brought up in the NewsGator forum.

I look forward to seeing how ME progresses, because I’ve been using clients to post to my blog since Radio Userland let me create stories on my Manila blog earlier this century. (I just love saying that!) ME is a decent one, although I don’t think anything quite matched the way RU worked with Manila — although the actual writing environment wasn’t as good as ME’s text editor, you could edit virtually every aspect and setting of the site with RU. I think that’s something to strive for. Maybe Atom will allow that.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:19:28 +0000

dimboo: The new blogger problems are not yet fixed, but I’m hacking away at it, and undestand the problem now. MarsEdit needs to support a special Google authentication protocol, which I’m currently adding support for.

Jaharmi: I think you’re right that providing “Software” and “API” would be a good choice. The Software would be a cue to MarsEdit about what API is probably best, but wouldn’t lock the user into that API.

Daniel

By: Jaharmi

Jaharmi — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:15:06 +0000

I think you also need to look at what APIs would be best for each system. I have some outstanding requests on the NewsGator MarsEdit forum about support for Drupal. Currently, the “Drupal” API in MarsEdit is not up to date with the current state of Drupal, so it’s actually better to use the MovableType API.

Even this is not without problems. I’ve got it working just enough so that round-tripping posts back and forth between MarsEdit and Drupal 4.7 doesn’t corrupt the entries.

http://www.jaharmi.com/trying_out_marsedit_for_posting_drupal_stories_again

http://www.jaharmi.com/trying_again_to_get_marsedit_working_with_drupal

http://www.jaharmi.com/it_s_slower_here_without_marsedit

Perhaps you could have a choice for API _and_ blogging/CMS tool. I’m not sure how to best accomplish that, especially since these choices are so related and could even change with different versions of MarsEdit and/or the blogging/CMS tool.

By: dimboo

dimboo — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:29:58 +0000

Daniel,

Does this release fix the problems with new Blogger ?

Thanks

Dimitri

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:11:00 +0000

Thanks Tim – I hear your Drupal vote :) And will add your Drupal requests to my list of system-specific requests.

By: Tim Altman

Tim Altman — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:12:49 +0000

Daniel:

I just gave MarsEdit a try last week for the first time after reading that you acquired it. I use Drupal for my blog and it doesn’t allow me to select the input format or category. At least the former issue is a problem with the version of Drupal I’m using (http://drupal.org/node/12484). I’m going to give MarsEdit another try after upgrading.

Long story short, I’m not using MarsEdit right now, but consider this a “vote” for Drupal. :)

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:57:24 +0000

Yes jon – it would – so, point taken! I will not interpret the data that is collected so much as “what system people are using” as “what API people are using.”

I will look into the possibility of adding the ability to identify both the API and the specific system that is being used for their blogs.

By: jon deal

jon deal — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:54:11 +0000

I use ExpressionEngine (from pmachine) and it uses the MetaWeblog API. MarsEdit works best with EE on the "MovableType" setting. I guess that would come through as MovableType?

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:03:32 +0000

Henri: good point about identifying the systems more carefully. I’ll work on that in the future. For the moment though I think it will help a lot just to know what API people are using, even if it doesn’t say exactly which system it is.

Glad you appreciate the flicker fix :)