Naquada

I’ve started playing with Ecto 3 Alpha on the Mac, I’ve been looking forward to it for sometime as I love Ecto version 2 on the mac (it’s not so cool on windows though).. Generally it’s pretty good Andy Piper has a good post on it, but I’m really hoping that there is a lot more coming.. namely the right click insert image from clip board

I use this functionality all the time in ecto 2 and I cant seem to see where it is in ecto 3, sure the auto upload of images to my blog is great, as is the auto fixing of html, but unless this is coming in a later release.. or I’m meant to implement this through the Ecto 3 scripting system, then I’m currently prefering Ecto 2 still..
Don’t get me wrong, Ecto 3 does seem to be a big step for Ecto Development but I’m feeling a bit uncomfortable with the use of it at present..
Categories and Tags seem a big confusing too.. they initially are all mixed up.. both categories and tags showing in one list.. if you add a tag.. the categories vanish.. and it took me sometime to work out that the search box at the bottom of the tag/category list had an all, Tags or Category option. I prefer the tabbing of Ecto 2 in that respect..

Having explored the URL helper a bit more it seems that selecting some text, and the using the URL helper almost recreates the functionality, in that I can highlight some text and pop the URL in (or it’s picked up from the clipboard) and it will replace the text with a hyperlink… although I’m still confused how I get the same old functionality for an image that I dont want uploaded to my blog (say from flickr etc)

I am giving Ecto 3 a change though.. I’m posting this from Ecto 3 alpha 3.0a15.. I think once it gets past alpha stage it will be a nice update to Ecto, and Adriaan does a great job of maintaining what I think is the best OSX blogging client in addition to his normal day job at Technorati

p.s.  I ended up having to post this from Ecto2, for some reason ecto 3 wanted to upload the image to my blog and then crashed.. even though the entry appeared in wordpress’ dashboard, it didn’t appear in the main blog.. I had to end up editing it in Ecto2 to fix it… go figure… I’ll try again with another post..

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