Having played with both ecto and Blogjet, I have ended up using tabbed browsers to post quickly to my TypePad blogs. The news that Blogger has just introduced drag and drop editing, preserving any hyperlinks, makes me very envious. News of this came to me via Olivier Travers, who links to Massless (weblog of Chris Wetherell, a User Interface Engineer at Google), from whence this:
... it became evident during testing trials at Google of WYSIWYG editing that a large set of people have learned a minor set of HTML for basic expression needs, and have grown so accustomed to using them that a WYSIWYG mode which didn't easily allow these people to compose using that markup presented large and sometimes unacceptable interruptions to their content creation task. Furthermore, having a place for them to enter a "source mode" only frustrated them further as they wondered where the styling went. You see, some of us know some HTML but not all, and with broader expression available to them, these new-to-them tags presented challenges that were, at times, more annoying to them than if WYSIWYG didn't exist.One solution, implemented now at Blogger, is to create a mixed-mode environment for WYSIWYG where a user can enter rich styling and HTML and have both work. So (as coined by Jason "Mr. Product" Goldman) the result is more of a WYSI-M-WYG or "What You See Is Mostly What You Get" editor.
We believe that is helpfully pronounced "Whizz-ah-ma-wig".
