This is a test. This is only a test. This a test of the MarsEdit system. Is it better than Ecto? And is there a way to do hyperlinks and styling with a push of the button instead of having to type out the HTML by hand? If I make a post with MarsEdit, then find a simple typo and go back to fix it, is there a way to make the original post date stamp stick?
UPDATE: Melrin Mann inadvertently suggests TextExpander as a possible solution to the HTML coding.
UPDATE: If I had bothered to click on the button in the User Interface, I would have seen that MarsEdit has HTML tags a click away, or via keyboard shortcuts. Doh! But I am liking TextPander better. And I still don’t see how to keep sticky dates.
Jason Robertshaw
Hi there - this is Daniel Jalkut, the developer of MarsEdit. Here through the magic of referrer logs
There isn’t a “sticky date” setting in MarsEdit, but that might be a good idea. Notice that the “original post date” does stay the same when MarsEdit updates a post (unless you explicitly change it using “Edit Date” from the Post menu). The trick would be to prevent the blog from updating the “modified date” … so that news readers and such don’t pick up the changes, right?
The big question is whether the MetaWeblog API that WordPress (and other systems) uses would support such a feature. A quick look at WordPress’s implementation at least suggests that the modified date is not controllable by the client - it will always set the modified date to the current time.
Daniel
Daniel: Thanks. I am enjoying MarsEdit so far. Because it is so simple, I was mystified at first. Still getting used to the uncluttered UI of most cottage Mac programs after many years in front of a Windows PC.
I am unfamiliar with the MetaWeblog API, but have come across it a couple of times, most recently while looking at Journler. However, I think I can just remember to Opt+Cmd+L if as timestamp needs fixing