Comments on: Switched Back to ecto http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:18:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Daniel Jalkut http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto#comment-45002 Daniel Jalkut Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:57:26 +0000 http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto#comment-45002 I'm surprised that you have the impression MarsEdit is not in active development. I guess I have taken my foot off the accelerator a little bit since I released 2.0, but I spent pretty much 6 months sprinting to get that release finished and out the door. As of today we're approaching the 10 month anniversary of my taking over the product. I'd say I'm moving pretty quickly. I'm not doing public beta releases because I don't want to be judged by and support beta-quality software. I guess this helps give an impression of inactivity. You make some good points about flaws in MarsEdit, but I'm not standing still. 2.1 development is chugging along and it will come out when it's ready. It won't satisfy every item in your wish list, either. But it will be a step in the right direction. I'm surprised that you have the impression MarsEdit is not in active development. I guess I have taken my foot off the accelerator a little bit since I released 2.0, but I spent pretty much 6 months sprinting to get that release finished and out the door. As of today we're approaching the 10 month anniversary of my taking over the product. I'd say I'm moving pretty quickly.

I'm not doing public beta releases because I don't want to be judged by and support beta-quality software. I guess this helps give an impression of inactivity. You make some good points about flaws in MarsEdit, but I'm not standing still. 2.1 development is chugging along and it will come out when it's ready. It won't satisfy every item in your wish list, either. But it will be a step in the right direction.

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto#comment-44999 Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:13:34 +0000 http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto#comment-44999 [quote comment="44997"]I switched to MarsEdit after I saw what ecto was going to do to the custom tags implementation. going from a nice, functional list to making me pick buttons from *font symbols*? Um..no.[/quote] Indeed, that's one of the more puzzling things about ecto. But I use the keyboard shortcuts all the time. I do wish ecto would enhance the "snippets" functionality to include things like cursor placement or the ability to prompt for things like a title tag in a link or whatnot. John C. Welch said on December 19, 2007:

I switched to MarsEdit after I saw what ecto was going to do to the custom tags implementation. going from a nice, functional list to making me pick buttons from *font symbols*? Um..no.

Indeed, that's one of the more puzzling things about ecto. But I use the keyboard shortcuts all the time. I do wish ecto would enhance the "snippets" functionality to include things like cursor placement or the ability to prompt for things like a title tag in a link or whatnot.

]]> By: John C. Welch http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto#comment-44997 John C. Welch Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:35:30 +0000 http://nslog.com/2007/12/19/switched_back_to_ecto#comment-44997 I switched to MarsEdit after I saw what ecto was going to do to the custom tags implementation. going from a nice, functional list to making me pick buttons from *font symbols*? Um..no. I switched to MarsEdit after I saw what ecto was going to do to the custom tags implementation. going from a nice, functional list to making me pick buttons from *font symbols*? Um..no.

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