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MarsEdit 2.2.3
I've been hard at work on innumerable new features, and even, dare I speculate, some new apps. Some of these lofty plans have turned out to take a bit more thought and effort than I had originally planned, but good things are on the horizon.
In the mean time, I have collected the most critical bug fixes made over the past few months, into a new update which I'm releasing today.
Download MarsEdit 2.2.3 to be sure you are running with "the best I have to offer" as of now.
This update will be a particular relief to users who have noticed an occasional glitch in the preview window, causing it to "freeze up" and stop responding to changes as you type or paste in your blog posts.
Summary of changes:
- Improve networking compatibility by always encoding XML ">" literals
- Fix a bug in the preview window that could cause it to stop updating
- Fix a possible crash when closing the enclosure sheet before URL finishes loading
- Fix a bug that caused media manager upload choice to be out of sync with post
- Fix a bug that prevented some 10.4 users from toggling table column visibility
- Improved accessibility of the check for updates dialog
Enjoy, and look forward to more earth-shattering, or at least earth-cracking updates in the near future!
MarsEdit Meets Tumblr
Click Here To Download MarsEdit 2.3 Public Beta
Special note for current MarsEdit users: It's a good idea to make a backup of your current MarsEdit Application Support folder. You'll find it in your home directory at:
[Home] -> Library -> Application Support -> MarsEdit
For this initial Tumblr support, I have only endeavored to support the Text, Quote, Photo, Link, and Chat post types. Audio and video are on the list for a future enhancement.
While the emphasis of this release is on Tumblr, there are a few goodies that will benefit those of you who are using MarsEdit on other blog systems as well:
- Opening the media manager is now much faster with lots of photos
- Improved usability and design of the Technorati Tags editor
- Improved weblog Favicon detection
Tumblr Caveats
I think there is enough here to get people excited about using MarsEdit for Tumblr, and hopefully you won't run in to many pitfalls. But there are a few things that I already know are working less than perfectly.
- Post options such as selecting between Markdown and HTML , and setting whether a post is public or private, are not yet supported. I hope to support these in an update sometime after 2.3 ships.
- Autodetection of weblog settings fails if you host on a custom domain name. To work around this, give MarsEdit your tumblr-based URL, e.g. "http://marsedit.tumblr.com/". I am working with the Tumblr folks to see if we can facilitate a way for MarsEdit to autodetect settings from a custom domain name.
- Only the first tumblelog for an account can be edited with MarsEdit. The Tumblr API has come a long way in recent months, but it is missing the capacity to specify a particular blog to edit when submitting or editing a post.
Have Fun And Keep In Touch
I hope you'll give this new release of MarsEdit a try, and take the time to send me your feedback if you've got it. I'm not aiming for perfection with 2.3, but usable and lovable would be a good start. I appreciate your help in getting us there!