The problem I have which MarsEdit solves is this: when I’m in a web browser, I start surfing the web. I’m doing it now; because I bought ME I had to go to the red-sweater store, and then I was in the browser, so I thought “I know, I’ll go back and comment on that Broken Web Editor post”… undoubtedly I’ll get distracted by something else soon enough too. This is not a problem with the web editor, but is a problem with trying to get something done in the browser context. MarsEdit removes me from that context, so I can see in OmniFocus that I’d decided to make a blog entry, then just fire MarsEdit up to get it written. No distractions, bosh, job done. As I already spend enough time at the computer at work, saving time when I’m using it at home is easily worth $30.

So, there we go, I make mistakes.

I am always considering changes to MarsEdit to take advantage of new WP features. The most asked for is support for editing pages, so that is high on my list.

Daniel

Are there any plans to add new features to MarsEdit to take advantage of new features in WP itself?

It would also be interesting to hear your opinions on 2.5 generally.

So, I tried using the WP editor, and even still it would keep trying to strip out the paragraph tags! Perhaps this is a problem with WP and Safari (or WebKit-based browsers)?

I’ll have to try using Camino or Firefox and see if this “fixes” my problems, or if it is some other problem. If not that, then perhaps WP 2.5 might be the answer.

Future Posting With MarsEdit

Also, the Webkit team worked hard to solve most javascript issues in the new Safari (3) so I think when the new Wordpress comes out, you can safely use Safari 3 with Wordpress 2.5 and have a pleasant experience.

That aside, the Marsedit experience may be better. My workflow for blogposts is write them entirely out, then convert to HTML in Textmate, then copy paste, then fix issues. Not too convenient, but it works for me.