Review: MyBlogEdit
- Article 78 of 89
- MacFormat, October 2009
A ‘stylish’ blog editing tool that’s both a step up and a step down from a browser
Most of the time, a browser is all you need to blog. But for the dedicated blogger, a browser doesn’t have the power of a desktop application and may not be as easy to use.
Billed as ‘the weblog editor for people with style’, MyBlogEdit tries to bridge this gap by offering advanced desktop application features you can’t get in a browser. It supports major blog editing systems, including WordPress, TypePad and Movable Type, and has most of the features available in their browser interfaces for managing and publishing entries. In addition, it has a spellchecker, syntax highlighting, and find and replace. Its highlights are a media manager and an image uploader and file manager.
However, while it may be an editor for people with style, those people need to understand the basics of XML-RPC to even set up the software since it lacks RSD support for easy configuration.
It also has severe deficiencies, including a horrible interface that hides important functions until you hit the Publish button and a tendency to crash when dealing with categories. Principally designed with WordPress in mind, MyBlogEdit is certainly a step up on WordPress’s interface, but its support for Movable Type is lacklustre and in many ways falls behind that system’s far better web interface. Compared with rival ecto, which has none of its flaws, it’s also massively inferior, lacking even a rich text editor. A browser’s still better and ecto’s still best.