Right now, I'm using MarsEdit to write these blogs. I'm going to experiment with Ecto, which is very highly rated and is cross-platform. On first glance, Ecto seems more configurable, but is definitely less user-friendly. Anyone have other recommendations or suggestions?
Both clients promise previewing using the Photoethnography.com/MT template, but I can't seem to get this to work properly. In MarsEdit, for some reason I get repeated entries in the preview window (the preview repeats itself three times), and Ecto doesn't seem to accept the template from MT.
- Ecto vs. MarsEdit (written by the Ecto folks, take with a grain of salt)
- Brent Simmon's Things you don't know about MarsEdit (written by the author of MarsEdit, take with a grain of salt)
- MacWorld review of Ecto (on Ecto's site and edited)
- Minor technicality blog - MarsEdit vs. Ecto
- AskPang blog - user review which I agree with
- Carpeaqua.com - extensive review of MarsEdit v1.0
Argh! MarsEdit doesn't handle umlauts and diacritics properly. So in my recent blog entry on Reporters sans Frontières, it turned the è into an ë.
MarsEdit needs some serious development work -- or ecto needs to get its user interface cleaned up. It's frustrating to have two tools: one easy to use and buggy and non-standard compliant; and one that is full-featured but an interface nightmare.