Curiouser and Curiouser! on choice http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic choice Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Time to switch? Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:00:51 +0100 I hate having to use a non-WYSIWYG editor to write blog posts and yet I really hate the WYSIWYG editor in <a href="http://radio.userland.com/">Radio</a><br> <br> For one thing in Mozilla I don't get an editing caret which is annoying enough.&nbsp; But it also has no button for doing <blockquote> (it's not the same as indenting which is done via a styled section) and forces me to use the HTML view which is bad enough but there the cursor often ends up out of sequence with the editing position so you have no idea what's going to happen next.&nbsp; Finally it cannot handle Radio's <% %> macro delimeters (would that there was another choice of delimiter avaiable but alas that will never happen...)<br> <br> Having been exposed to other blogging tools recently, most notably <a href="http://blog.blogware.com/blog">Blogware</a>, I find myself more and more wanting to trade in Radio for something a bit more modern, more stable, better featured.&nbsp; I've been using Radio for 2 years and it has basically stood still in that time.&nbsp; Enough is enough.<br> <br> Not wishing to throw out the baby with the bathwater I'd like an application that builds on what I see as Radio's strengths.&nbsp; It's not essential but I'd prefer a desktop application. I like the built in newsreader (Radio's reader is still my choice).&nbsp; I like the upstreaming (if not <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2004/01/17.html#a1292">Radio's implementation</a> of it)&nbsp; I like the ability to hack scripts locally but I want a more regular, popular and powerful language than <a href="http://docserver.userland.com/">Usertalk</a> to do it (I no longer <span style="font-style: italic;">willingly</span> grok <a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl</a> though).&nbsp; Also, and this is critical, I want a tool which is being <span style="font-weight: bold;">developed</span> and where <span style="font-weight: bold;">bugs</span> either are, or can be, <span style="font-weight: bold;">fixed</span>.<br> <br> Is all this too much too ask?&nbsp; Any recommendations?<br> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002096.html