Ecto3 development details posted

Adriaan of Kula Software, developers of such excellent apps as endo and my personal favorite blogging app - ecto, has posted some juicy development details to his blog on the upcoming ecto version 3. One of the biggest changes Adriaan mentions is a new plugin architecture, which should make it much easier for code ninjas to let ecto work with many more APIs. The account manager has also received an overhaul, and users will be able to create accounts without having to go through a wizard. Filtering and searching entries have also been improved and sped up, and a new rich text editor is based on Mac OS X's editable WebKit. Finally, Adriaan is also beefing up template support to "[handle] templates in a more transparent way".

Alas, if your mouth is already watering (like mine), it's going to have to stay that way, as Adriaan hasn't posted any kind of ETA for the new version. On the bright side, he'll be updating his blog with details as development progresses, and you can be assured we'll stay on top of things for you.

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Source: http://blog.kung-foo.tv/archives/001720.html

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David Chartier

Fellow blogger here at TUAW, Scott McNulty, prefers Mars Edit and periodically points fingers and makes fun of me for using ecto. ;)

Personally, I think Mars Edit admittedly feels and looks a little more Mac OS X-like, and it's a bit more streamlined for just blogging. ecto, on the other hand, has a lot more features built into it. You can pull in songs from iTunes, insert your Amazon affiliate name and search their database to insert links to products easily, etc. ecto also seems to have better support for Technorati, as the post editing pane contains a section specifically for entering Technorati tags.

It sounds like some of ecto's UI woes are being addressed in the new version, so it should be interesting to see the evolution.

July 13 2006 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply