MarsEdit
- Version 2.4 | Release Date: 2009-11-30 | Download
- Improved Squarespace support
- Support for server drafts
- Support for tags
- Support for adding new categories
- Improved error handling
- Post editor windows now automatically remember size and screen position
- Avoid accidental post publishing by disabling the send button when document is not frontmost
- Improved error messages for misconfigured Tumblr blogs
- Bug fixes
- Fixed Flickr image links so they produce valid HTML when align-centered.
- Fix a Snow Leopard problem that prevented the Save button from enabling immediately when document is edited
- Fix a rare bug that could cause locked up dialogs on the second launch
- Fix a crash that could occur when configuring a blog with an extremely weird URL
- Fix a bug that occurred when an invalid URL was specified for a blog home page
- Fix a bug that caused duplication of tags on a previously published draft
- Fix a bug that prevented existing open document from being located when opening a local draft.
- Improved Squarespace support
- Version 2.3.3 | Release Date: 2009-08-25 | Download
- Fix a performance problem that caused slow typing for some users
- Fix a rare crashing bug that became more common in 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Fix a bug that caused occaasional distortion of text in the post editor
- Fix a bug that caused double-clicking a table header to open selected post
- Fix a crashing bug when adding categories to a blog with no existing categories
- Version 2.3.2 | Release Date: 2009-05-08 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.3.2
- Flickr browser fixes
- Add support for deauthorizing the current account
- Fix an issue where a bad URL or missing image size could be inserted
- Fix a bug in the display of ampersands (&) in image titles
- Use Leopard 10.5 style for window's status bar text
- AppleScript date-setting command now accepts string date descriptions
- Flickr browser fixes
- Version 2.3.1 | Release Date: 2009-03-28 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.3.1
- Dramatic performance improvement for Flickr browser
- Fix bug where default settings not applied to posts created from bookmarklet
- Fix bug that prevented "Show in weblog" from working when a blog icon is selected
- Now accepts escape or cancel keyboard shortcut for "Don't Send" button in post warnings sheet
- Update the "What's New" page in Help to cover 2.3 changes
- Version 2.3 | Release Date: 2009-03-24 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.3
- Now supports Tumblr blogs
- Opening media manager now much faster with lots of photos
- Revision of the Technorati Tags editor
- Improve weblog Favicon detection
- Version 2.2.3 | Release Date: 2009-02-12 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.2.3
- 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
- Version 2.2.2 | Release Date: 2008-10-23 | Download
- Fix a bug that prevented adding categories on some Blogger blogs
- Fix a bug that caused blank categories on some Movable Type blogs
- Version 2.2.1 | Release Date: 2008-10-15 | Download
- Restore slight indentation to Title column in blog posts list
- Fix a crash that could occur when typing Thai and other characters that use more than one glyph per character.
- Fix a bug that prevented using categories with single quotes in them on Blogger.
- Fix a bug that prevented adding new categories to a freshly configured blog.
- Fix a bug where selecting category could undo category choice from toolbar popup
- Fix bugs that caused the upload and insert buttons in media manager to stay enabled inappropriately
- AtomPub-specific fixes
- Support nodes that have namespace prefixes
- Be sure to properly strip markup child from xhtml content nodes
- Eliminate obsolete attribute behavior for and elements
- Fix resolution of relative URLs in service document
- Support "Excerpt" field for AtomPub, mapping to the "Summary" attribute.
- Recognize a blog's category list when embedded inline in service document.
- Fix a bug that caused inappropriate UI fields to show on AtomPub blogs.
- Show correct error message if AtomPub disabled on a WordPress blog.
- Enable support for adding categories if the categories are not fixed
- Version 2.2 | Release Date: 2008-07-22 | Download
Generic AtomPub Support
AtomPub is a new specification for communication between a blog and a remote editor such as MarsEdit. To use MarsEdit with your AtomPub-compatible blog, select "Other AtomPub Compatible" from the configuration popup in your weblog settings, and enter the service document URL in the RPC URL field.Customizable Image Markup
Now you can use MarsEdit's powerful markup macros in the media window. In addition to the built-in macros for image alignment, you can add your own to finely tune the markup that is used when inserting images or other files.Performance Boost
Significant speed improvements to launch time and sorting the table of weblog entries.And More...
- Support for removing unwanted items from the media catalog.
- New post table columns for viewing Tags or Post ID.
- A date editor pull down for easily selecting today's date.
- Improved MIME type generation for uploaded files.
- Blosxom now uses the "Slug" field to specify the file name.
- Version 2.1.4 | Release Date: 2008-06-18 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.1.4
- Add a dock menu item for easily starting a new post
- Support uploading to specific Picasa album for Blogger users
- Prevent dragging a URL to preview window from loading that URL
- Fix display of tags in main window preview
- Safeguard against bad URLs that could cause a crash when refreshing
- Version 2.1.3 | Release Date: 2008-04-03 | Download
MarsEdit 2.1.3
- Fix detection of draft posts from WordPress 2.5 and Blogger.
- Added support for the #tags# placeholder in preview template
- Fix console errors when refreshing with main window closed
- Improve handling of localhost-based blog URLs.
- Markup item placeholder #askurl# now defaults to "Enter a URL:" instead of "Enter Text:"
- Avoid escaping characters in URLs pasted or entered in dialog.
- Fix a bug involving UI display for Blosxom-based weblog settings.
- Version 2.1.2 | Release Date: 2008-02-13 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.1.2
- Added new warn-before-send item for Missing Tags
- Added Post Status to default settings options for weblogs
- Fix problem with missing categories on some MetaWeblog blogs
- Fix high CPU usage when launching with toolbar collapsed
- Fix a crash that could happen when entering registration code
- AppleScript Fixes
- Now provides access to post status and tags
- Fix "send post to weblog" scripting command (again)
- No longer bounces the dock icon when showing progress for send to weblog
- Version 2.1.1 | Release Date: 2008-02-04 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.1.1
- Work around a conflict with a WriteRoom plugin that caused an XML parsing error
- Fix preview problem with preview placeholder tags inside HTML tag attributes
- Fix Tags support for 10.4 Tiger
- Version 2.1.1 | Release Date: 2008-02-03 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.1.1
- Work around a conflict with a WriteRoom plugin that caused an XML parsing error
- Fix preview problem with preview placeholder tags inside HTML tag attributes
- Fix Tags support for 10.4 Tiger
- Version 2.1 | Release Date: 2008-01-31 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.1
Search Your Drafts and Entries
Now you can quickly filter your posts and drafts by keywords. Just type a word or phrase into the toolbar search field, and MarsEdit will restrict the post listing to only items that contain the text you've typed.Native Tags Support
For supported systems, including Movable Type and WordPress, MarsEdit now offers a field for capsule-style tagging of your posts. It even remembers the tags you've typed before, so you'll be able to reuse them in a jiffy on future posts.Improved Web Preview
MarsEdit's built-in preview sports a sleek new default appearance, massively enhanced performance, and fine-tuned usability. Now previews update quickly and without flickering or jumping around as you edit your post.Save Drafts To Server
A new Post Status popup in the options pane lets you choose between Published and Draft status. Server support for this feature is somewhat hit-or-miss, so be sure to test with something not too embarrassing! - Version 2.1 | Release Date: 2008-01-30 | Download
- MarsEdit 2.1
Search Your Drafts and Entries
Now you can quickly filter your posts and drafts by keywords. Just type a word or phrase into the toolbar search field, and MarsEdit will restrict the post listing to only items that contain the text you've typed.Native Tags Support
For supported systems, including Movable Type and WordPress, MarsEdit now offers a field for capsule-style tagging of your posts. It even remembers the tags you've typed before, so you'll be able to reuse them in a jiffy on future posts.Improved Web Preview
MarsEdit's built-in preview sports a sleek new default appearance, massively enhanced performance, and fine-tuned usability. Now previews update quickly and without flickering or jumping around as you edit your post.Save Drafts To Server
A new Post Status popup in the options pane lets you choose between Published and Draft status. Server support for this feature is somewhat hit-or-miss, so be sure to test with something not too embarrassing! - Version 2.0.5 | Release Date: 2008-01-02 | Download
- 2.0.5
- Improve handling of ampersands and other entities in category names
- Blogger support now respects "number of posts to fetch" preference
- Restore functionality of "send post to weblog" AppleScript command
- Fix a bug that caused "remind me later" software updates to appear too frequently
- Fix a bug where Media Manager "Insert" button wasn't updated correctly
- Version 2.0.5 | Release Date: 2008-01-01 | Download
- 2.0.5
- Improve handling of ampersands and other entities in category names
- Blogger support now respects "number of posts to fetch" preference
- Restore functionality of "send post to weblog" AppleScript command
- Fix a bug that caused "remind me later" software updates to appear too frequently
- Fix a bug where Media Manager "Insert" button wasn't updated correctly
- Version 2.0.4 | Release Date: 2007-11-14 | Download
- 2.0.4
- Whitespace surrounding Title is now stripped if sent from bookmarklet
- Prevents old MarsEdit 1 help showing when opened from MarsEdit 2
- Fix return key for dismissing date-editing sheet by keyboard
- Fix a Leopard drawing issue in the date-editing sheet
- Fix a keyboard focus bug when full keyboard access tabbing is enabled
- Fix a bug that prevented "Warn if no Title" from working on Vox
- Fix a typo and a missing image URL in documentation
- Version 2.0.3 | Release Date: 2007-10-04 | Download
Complete details:
- Markup Changes
- "Do Again" item for markup menu - repeats last applied item
- Add Text Markup menu to main menu (fixes issues with markup macros when toolbar is hidden)
- Better support for Return, Arrow keys, and F-Keys in markup shortcuts
- List recent dates as relative, e.g. "Yesterday, 3:30 PM"
- Fix false warning of empty categories when only a new category is set
- Add some missing French localized strings
- Don't bounce icon when editing in external editor
- Movable Type Specific
- Fix bug causing _1 being appended to slugs
- Blogger Specific
- Improve formatting display for <br /> tags in Blogger posts
- Markup Changes
- Version 2.0.2 | Release Date: 2007-09-17 | Download
Fix appearance of dates in the Date column of post outline.
- Version 2.0.1 | Release Date: 2007-09-17 | Download
- External Editing
- Reactivate MarsEdit when external editing ends
- Add WriteRoom to default list of external editors
- Fix sort-order of external editor list
- Avoid hanging when external editor set to app not on computer
- Evaluation mode
- For existing MarsEdit customers, show old serial in registration dialog
- Fix a bug that caused demo to nag user earlier than it should have
- Fix auto-configuration for Typo weblog system
- Fix a bug when trying to print a blank post
- Fix miscellaneous typos and small bugs
- External Editing
- Version 2.0 | Release Date: 2007-09-04 | Download
Beautifully Refined User Interface
MarsEdit 2.0 extends the simple elegance of MarsEdit 1.2, incorporating new features while continuing to simplify the user interface. Much more than just a pretty face, MarsEdit's beauty and simplicity help you be a more productive weblog author.Seamless Flickr Integration
The streamlined Media Manager now sports a dedicated tab just for Flickr! Browse your most recent photos, or your entire collection. You can even search by tag or photo title. When you find the perfect picture, insert it into your post with the click of a button.Powerful Markup Macros
Nobody likes to type HTML code, which is why MarsEdit's markup macros are so invaluable. With the ability to transform text from the editor or the pasteboard, you'll find it a breeze to customize macros for the most tedious of your HTML tasks.Streamlined Post Editor
The post editor was completely rethought for MarsEdit 2.0, giving you the power to show or hide fields in the window so that only the useful elements are visible. On supported weblogs, you can even add new categories, or edit the slug (short URL name) of your posts, without ever leaving MarsEdit.New Printing Support
MarsEdit makes writing on the web a real joy, but sometimes it takes marking up a paper copy of your masterpiece to make sure you've gotten all the kinks out. With MarsEdit 2.0 you can print both the raw text of your post or the HTML preview, making it a snap to take your work-in-progress offline for yourself or others to review.And More...
A huge number of "tiny tweaks" have been made to MarsEdit, moving it ever closer to perfection. Take a look around and see how well it suits you!- Version 1.2.1 | Release Date: 2007-07-31 | Download
- For new weblogs, set default comment status to "Open"
- Sort Technorati Tags alphabetically in dialog
- Fix a bug that could cause "Edit With External Editor" to get stuck editing
- Fix appearance of text "#extended#" in the preview
- Blogger Specific
- Fix issue with authenticating Blogger when user has google hosted account
- Fix a "phantom category" bug with Blogger blogs that have no categories
- Version 1.2 | Release Date: 2007-06-05 | Download
MarsEdit 1.2
- New Features:
- Growl notifications for publishing, refreshing, and uploading
- Initial support for Vox weblogs
- Support Blogger.com image uploads via Picasa
- Edit Date panel now defaults to existing post date if it has one
- Context menu item for "Copy URL" when control-clicking a published blog post
- Workaround MovableType bug that could cause incorrect timezone offset
- Fix memory leaks & improve performance of Images & Files window
- Images & Files upload target now defaults to currently selected blog
- New Features:
- Version 1.1.8 | Release Date: 2007-04-20 | Download
- MarsEdit 1.1.8
- Make sure newly added custom tags items show up in popup menu
- Follow HTTP redirects when autodetecting
- Improve reliability of category syncing by limiting concurrent server requests
- Improve unicode blog support by defaulting to "Don't Encode HTML Entities"
- Improved keyboard navigation of posts and blogs lists
- Add "extended" content to default preview template
- LiveJournal specific:
- Add auto-detection for LiveJournal.com blog addresess
- Blogger specific:
- Enable support for new enclosure support
- Drupal Specific
- Fix to properly support MovableType-style categories
- Metaweblog specific (e.g. SquareSpace)
- Fix category list retrieval
- Version 1.1.7 | Release Date: 2007-03-27 | Download
Fix a bug with posting to Blogger.
- Version 1.1.6 | Release Date: 2007-03-26 | Download
- Fix bug where Custom Tag menu shortcuts disappear after adding or editing
- Remember "Check Spelling as You Type" setting across launches
- Little fixes
- Fix a bug preventing the very last post in a weblog from being deleted
- Fix some small memory leaks
- Add Window -> Zoom menu item for consistency with other apps
- Eliminate a pointless beep that could happen when closing weblog settings
- Show scrollbar only when needed for Extended, Excerpt, and Keywords views
- Blogger Specific
- Fix "Blank category" bug for blogs with no categories
- Filter authorization info from RPC console, for security protection
- Fix to work with gmail passwords with special chars ('&', '=', '+', '?', '/') in them
- Blosxom Specific
- Fix Delete post functionality
- Drupal Specific
- Defaults to MovableType API for better user experience
- Add help page documentation for "Getting Started"
- Version 1.1.5 | Release Date: 2007-03-14 | Download
MarsEdit 1.1.5
- Fix a crashing bug in Blogger auto-detection.
- Version 1.1.4 | Release Date: 2007-03-13 | Download
- Blogger Support! Autodetect of a Blogspot blog should now detect "New Blogger"
- RPC Log Fixes
- Add more RPC detail to the log
- Increased maximum size of RPC Console log for debugging large fetches
- Weblog Settings Fixes
- Fix keyboard tab-cycle in Weblog editor dialog
- Fix autodetection for Blogger & WordPress
- Minor changes to layout of dialog
- Be sure to always use latest dialog edits when "Auto-detecting"
- Enclosure Editor
- Minor changes to layout of enclosure editing sheet
- Fix bug with Enclosure URLs involving 302 redirects
- Changes to Help
- Fix indexing
- Add information about "New Blogger" type setup
- Add top-level link to "Getting Started" page
- Bookmarklet changes
- Fix to handle 2-byte characters and other non-ASCII correctly
- Add support for advanced "marsedit:" URL parameter "&weblog=BlogName"
- Autosave improvements
- Mark rescued documents as dirty to avoid accidental loss
- Fix a problem where autosave document could get stuck and always cause warning
- Blosxom Specific
- Improve performance on Blosxom blogs with lots of directories/files
- Miscellaneous
- Fix bug preventing drag-reordering a weblog to top of weblog list
- Update "Starting a Weblog" window to simplify choices for new users
- Fix a crash that could occur connecting to an unsupported blog system
- Fix a small memory leak in Keychain password retrieval
- Fix the blog editor window to - Make sure the "advanced" tabs go away when switching a post to a less feature-ful blog
- Version 1.1.3 | Release Date: 2007-02-26 | Download
- Bug fixes and rebranding as Red Sweater application. Fixes:
- Fix a bug with LiveJournal blogs that contain Unicode chars
- Fix the infamous "Preview Flickering Images" bug
- Fix a slow memory leak when text filters are applied in preview
- Version 1.1.2 | Release Date: 2006-07-07 | Download
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