In the continuing search for a functional, robust, more-or-less-sorta WYSIWYG blog editor, I am now aware (thanks again to Juan) of ecto2.
In-line WSYWIG editing without absurd “preview” pane - check
Easy setup - ehr, sorta. The auto-link to the Wordpress RPC/XML system was incorrect on my system, so I had to FTP into my server, find the file, and edit the path by hand. Dunno yet what the case is on other blogging systems.
Ability to easily embed graphics (currently sitting on my desktop, for example): let’s see.
Oh ecto2 genie, I want a screen dump sitting on my desktop to appear in the blog post: SHAZAM!

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Ok… I dragged the graphic into the editing pane… will it save? It looks kind of small… ehr, didn’t work on publish. The little graphic shows up way too small, and when I click on it, it takes me to a dead link.
What about this “Amazon” button on my toolbar.
Hey, I like andrew wk… what of it?

“Andrew W.K. - Who Knows? Live 1992-2004″ (Music Video Dist.)
Kind of interesting…
… except now this post is sort of in a no-mans land… and is no longer showing up on the live blog.
Maybe the “send edit” function doesn’t work so well… what if I send the edits as a new post and delete the old one…
Let’s try another “edit”-type save… ok… edit-type saves appear to be a no-go, because the live entry is again missing from the site. at least for me, with wordpress, in my configuration. saving as new, again…
So…
– graphics embedding… not working so well, same as MarsEdit… maybe I should read the manual
– this saving edits as a new post is a BS bug, or some sort of severe mis-configuration on my part (although I don’t see how)
Verdict: won’t be using daily, won’t be buying, until some of these basic things are worked out. Shows promise for the graphically-attuned/lazy.
Other bugs:
— The “Uncategorized” flag seems to get set on publish, no matter how many times I unset it. The only reason it’s not present in this post is because I went into the WP web interface and unset it.
rds