Offline blog editors
Following are my favorite offline blog editors.
| Wbloggar | Windows | My first, and I still swear by it. There’s now a thumb drive i.e., portable version available too. |
| MarsEdit | MacOS X | This is by far the very best I have ever used. |
| Drivel | Ubuntu | While the underdog, it’s got potential. Editing pane is a simple window, and I love its simplicity. Perhaps with little tweaks—like keyboard shortcuts to common editing tasks—this could easily become the MarsEdit for Linux. |
I hate rich text editors, not because I don’t like them, but because of their crappy code insertion, such as break tags, incomplete and malformed tags.
I was looking for one for Ubuntu and skipped Drivel; should try it now with some interest…
WBloggar, I agree…I tried the ByteScout in Win and it was OK too.
Cheers,
May 7, 08 at 08:09Arunn
Arunn: Drivel hasn’t been updated for nearly a year, and so there’s a lot of room for improvement—especially with regard to xmlrpc connect. It is also not optimized for XMLRPC-wp, so WordPress users may experience occasional timeouts, even if the post has been successfully posted. Minor annoyances still exist, like e.g., not being able to remember the post category, if a published post is retrieved for edit.
May 7, 08 at 10:08Did you try Windows Live Writer? Surprisingly a gem from Microsoft. When I’m in Ubuntu I use ScribeFire FF extension.
May 7, 08 at 15:06I’ve used WLW while it was in beta—wasn’t impressed; this is a personal opinion of course. That said a lot of people seem to like it.
May 7, 08 at 20:34