May 21st, 2012· Fix a serious bug that reverted blog settings to default values when opening the settings panel
· Avoid a crash when running on a 10.6 system with older versions of Safari installed
· Fix a rich-mode editing paste bug that could cause unwanted entries in HTML
May 18th, 2012· Status bar in post editor now includes haracter count along with word count
· Restore ability to paste HTML with "embed" tags in the Rich Editor
· Restore expected list manipulation behavior with tab and return keys
· Fix a crash that occurred when editing a Tumblr quotation post with no attribution
· Work around issue with WordPress pages showing up as empty posts if not permitted to edit
· Fix auto-configuration of IBM Lotus Connections blogs
· Fix the scrolling behavior of custom fields text input
May 8th, 2012· Fix the preview window to recognize and substitute template placeholders in the section
· Fix a bug with Squarespace and Expression Engine not prompting for username/password on new blog
· Restore ability to set "Warn when no title" option on Blogger blogs
· Fix a bug that prevented some blog-configuration options from being selected after switching system type
· Restore ability to start a Header or Blockquote before typing content
· Pressing return twice to exit Preformatted works again
· Improve support for future releases of Mac OS X
· Address an issue with icon view when resizing the Media Manager window
· Avoid crashes caused by conflicting system libraries
April 21st, 2012Highlighted Enhancements:
· Improved support for Lion full-screen mode
· Custom Formatting Macros now work in Rich Text mode as well as HTML mode
· Support for editing Tumblr Draft posts
Post Editor enhancements:
· A number of improvements to Rich Text editor to address minor formatting bugs
· Unified Formatting Macro menu for HTML and Rich Text modes
· Dragging an image to the post editor now causes inserted image to go to expected target location in text
· Fixed performance issues that could cause very slow typing in some configurations
· Fixed keyboard-based text selection in the HTML editor to avoid getting stuck on line endings
· Fix a slight mismatch in background color between Rich and HTML Text editing modes
· Work around hanging issues with External Editing in some apps
Tumblr-specific enhancements:
· Added support for server-stored Drafts
· Fixed Word Count feature to work properly with Tumblr Quote and Chat posts
· Revised Tumblr interface for Chat-style posts to prevent formatting problems
Other changes:
· Added support for browsing Lightroom 4 libraries
· New support for unicode characters in URLs
· Bug fixes for improved Media Manager reliability
· Fixed an issue where uploaded attachments would fail without prompting for password on authentication errors
· Added support for authenticated proxy servers
· Prevent a crash that occurred when working with Blog.de system's categories
· Improved XML sanitizing to increase compatibility with malformed blog content
· Fix a bug that prevented locally added tags from becoming part of the tag-suggestion history
March 10th, 2012· Fixes to Flickr browser to support new embed sizes: Large Square, Small 320
February 23rd, 2012· Fixes to improve with the Safari 5.2 beta
· Fixes to improve with a future OS X update
· Prevent a possible hang while parsing Lightroom libraries
December 20th, 2011· Fix a crash when searching in Media libraries
· Fix a bug where pasting an image in the rich text editor could cause the editor to freeze up
December 1st, 2011· Fix a crash when filtering Flickr photos
· Fix auto-configuration of Blogger blogs with Dynamic Views themes
· Fix an issue where undoing a paste in the tags field caused duplicate tags
November 29th, 2011Media management improvements:
· New zoom control for browser thumbnail size
· iPhoto Faces browsing support
· Lightroom photo collection set support
· Upload Utility window now resizable
Flickr browser improvements:
· Now supports "Medium 640" size
· Only shows image sizes that are available for the selected image
External Editing improvements:
· Now supports Byword in default editor list
· Now displays a warning panel if the selected app is not installed
Bug Fixes:
· Bookmarklet handler now heeds sourceHomeURL, sourceFeedURL, sourceName
· Prevent a crash when selecting SVG format images
· Disable width/height fields for non-image files in Upload Utility
· Fix a bug where post IDs were sometimes not saved for posts and pages
October 26th, 2011· Support a new per-blog setting for default writing direction, to benefit right-to-left language bloggers
· Change default keyboard shortcut for full screen toggle to cmd-ctrl-F, the standard for Mac OS X
· Prevent a crash that could occur with some systems like Sina.com that return empty string instead of expected array
· Fixes to make uploaded images target the desired blog more reliably
· Fix a bug that prevented "Send to Blog" button from being clickable after launching from bookmarklet
August 24th, 2011· Fix issues that caused side-panels to shrink gradually when collapsed/expanded
· Fix a problem that prevented the width of the blogs list area from being restored across launches
· If main window's preview is collapsed, keep it collapsed when window size is increased
· Fix a crash that could occur when removing the last item from the Uploaded media list
· Fix a crash that could occur when "unsplitting" a post or searching/replacing in rich editing mode
· Fix a crash that could occur when authorizing Flickr
August 12th, 2011· Improve Tumblr posting reliability by switching to an API URL that is less likely to report "over capacity"
· Improve memory efficiency for post editor documents
· Improve reliability of setting and removing links on images in rich text mode
· The main window's post list area now stays the same size while resizing window
August 2nd, 2011· Fix for continuous spell-checking in Rich Text editor when Safari 5.1 is installed
· Fix a bug that prevented Font Panel size changes from applying to text
· Fix autoconfiguration to fail more gracefully on unrecognized blog systems
· Add "Edit With" external editor item to post list contextual menu
July 1st, 2011· Media Manager now remembers and restores last-selected folder across launches
· Fix a bug that prevented custom text and background color preferences from working in rich text mode
· Add protections to avoid crashing on some malformed server responses
· Fix a bug where only the first paragraph was styled with e.g. multi-paragraph blockquote
· Fix a bug introduced in 3.3.1 that caused image uploads to Movable Type to produce invalid URLs
· Fix handling of Tumblr downtime to be more reliable and convey message to user
· Various bug-fixes to rich mode undo behavior
April 22nd, 2011· Fix an issue where the posts list is sorted in wrong order on launch
· Fix Tumblr support to allow downloading more than 50 recent posts
· Fix an issue where passwords were sometimes not accepted correctly with Blogger & Tumblr
April 7th, 2011· Fix problem with custom preview filters not properly saving on posts
· Fix an issue that caused "Unknown Error" message instead of prompting for password
· Add Expression Engine to systems list, superceding obsolete pMachine
· Update special-case warning detection for Tumblr over-capacity failures
March 23rd, 2011· New Word Count feature displays in post status bar
· Now reads previously used Tags from WordPress on refresh
· Now more resilient to malformed XML and "bad characters" in downloaded posts
· Performance improvements in media browser and autosave features
· Now code signed to prevent need for re-authorizing keychain access every release
Bug fixes:
· More fixes to prevent Convert Line Breaks affecting preformatted text
· Fix a bug that lost formatting information for image attachments saved to local drafts
· Fixes to improve reliability "Paste HTML Source" in rich editor
· Offer better error message when PHP out-of-memory message returned
· Fix a crash when loading Flickr panel with thousands of Flickr images
· Work around issues when running MarsEdit on a pre-release Mac OS X
· Fix some bugs that caused the app to crash when errors occurred uploading attachments
February 24th, 2011· Restore ability to collapse libraries section in Media Manager
· No longer beeps when attempting to save an already-saved local draft
· Improvements to further reduce RAM memory usage
· Fix an issue where media manager folders were not auto-refreshing content
· Fix the displayed items count in Flickr and Published media sections
· Fix to support detection of rel="shortcut icon" style favicons
· Fix occasional crashes while reloading media items
· Fix non-image files were inserted into post with image markup
· Fix crash when attempting to add enclosure without URL
· Fix possible blanked content when opening a post in external editor
· Fix crash when inserting Technorati Tags in extended area in rich mode
January 31st, 2011· Fixed the Convert Line Breaks filter so it doesn't add paragraph tags to preformatted text
· Fix an occasional crash when doing a global search/replace
· Fix possible crash when mistyping keyboard shortcuts in the app
· Add a special error message for situations where Tumblr is not responsive
Media manager and image upload improvements:
· Use a nicer format for default alt text description
· Fix the file extension of image file name to match the actual format
· Fix a bug where e.g. PNG images were converted to JPG when resizing
· Auto-convert image formats not suitable for web to PNG
· Fix a possible crash when searching for photos
December 16th, 2010· Now supports editing the Excerpt/Summary for Squarespace
· Dragged images now open the upload utility with the correctly targeted blog preselected
· Fix a bug in upload utility window that didn't update UI correctly when blog switched
· Restore ability to attach image-uploads for separate blog to Tumblr posts
· Fixes to prevent some rare crashes with HTML syntax highlighter
· Fix crashes affecting the Media Manager when editing photos in other apps
November 30th, 2010· Improved RAM performance by fixing a variety of memory leaks
· Restore functionality of the built-in Crash Reporter
Tumblr Photo post improvements:
· Per-blog image size constraints now applied to photo
· Improved integration between Media Manager and Tumblr photo post
November 18th, 2010· Improvements to paste functionality in Rich Editing mode
· Avoid a bug where saved local-drafts were not deleted after publishing
· Fix a bug that caused custom field values to go blank while editing a post
· Blogspot-specific changes
· Newly configured blogs now default to GData 2.0 protocol, fixing some HTML formatting issues
· Fixes to GData 2.0 protocol to allow edit date, categories, etc.
October 19th, 2010Fixes for issues with Find/Replace in the rich editor:
· Fix a potential hang when doing replace all
· Fix "Use Selection for Find" menu item
· Fix behavior of "Replace All" when limiting to selected text
· Fix a bug that prevented "None" from sticking as preview filter choice
· Fix a bug that caused wrong alt text to be generated for some uploads
· Prevent ugly clipping of font descenders e.g. on lower case "g" in Media Manager
September 15th, 2010· Fix a bug in 3.1 that caused default image constraints to be 0px by 0px for new blogs.
August 24th, 2010· Fix bug with spaces being stripped from HTML markup for Flickr items
· Fix bug with tags that have spaces in them
· Fix bug that prevented split-view state from being saved/restored correctly
· Fix bug that caused the extended "more" text for WordPress Page entries to be blank
· Fix margin sizes in media manager window
July 23rd, 2010· Fix a bug that caused strange ? characters at ends of pasted paragraphs
· Fix Drupal authentication issues by preserving cookies when connecting
· Fixes to Tags field to handle whitespace better, and keep insertion point visible
May 12th, 2010All New Rich Text Editor.No HTML Required:
· The rich editor offers an alternative to MarsEdit's beloved HTML text editor. While you are writing your blog posts you can style text, arrange images, create lists and more without using HTML code.
Updated HTML Editor with Advanced Syntax Highlighting:
· For those who prefer straight HTML we've added beautiful new syntax highlighting with different colors for attributes, keywords and tag structure, to make it easy to spot syntax errors at a glance.
Support for WordPress Pages:
· MarsEdit now lets you download, edit, and create Page entries on WordPress blogs. Now you can manage your blog and your permanent site pages from the same comfortable interface.
Support for Custom Fields:
· For WordPress and other blogs that implement the WordPress API, you can configure custom fields in MarsEdit to customize the post editing interface.
iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom Integration:
· Browse your media collections to find the perfect photo for your post. When you attach an image, MarsEdit lets you specify the size, name, and alternative text in one easy step.
Scheduled Media Attachments:
· With scheduled media attachments you can compose your posts with rich media even when completely offline. When you are ready to publish, the images or other media files are uploaded to your blog and inserted into the post.
May 4th, 2010· “WYSIWYG” rich text editing
· Support for WordPress Pages and Custom Fields
· Improved HTML syntax highlighting
· Integration with iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom
· Scheduled media attachments
March 19th, 2010· Fix the Technorati Tags dialog which was broken in 2.4.1
March 18th, 2010· Support editing slug on Tumblr posts
· Support editing the date of Squarespace posts
· Fix issue that caused Autosaved posts to get "stuck" and recover on every launch
· Avoid showing spell checking marks inside HTML tags
· Improved Accessibility for VoiceOver and other assistive interfaces
· Fix accessibility attributes of main post editor fields
· Fix accessibility of weblog list utility buttons
· Expose per-weblog busy indicators to accessibility
· Quiet noisy console warnings on Snow Leopard 10.6
November 30th, 2009Improved Squarespace support:
· Support for server drafts
· Support for tags
· Support for adding new categories
· Improved error handling
· Post editor windows now automatically remember size and screen position
· Avoid accidental post publishing by disabling the send button when document is not frontmost
· Improved error messages for misconfigured Tumblr blogs
Bug fixes:
· Fixed Flickr image links so they produce valid HTML when align-centered.
· Fix a Snow Leopard problem that prevented the Save button from enabling immediately when document is edited
· Fix a rare bug that could cause locked up dialogs on the second launch
· Fix a crash that could occur when configuring a blog with an extremely weird URL
· Fix a bug that occurred when an invalid URL was specified for a blog home page
· Fix a bug that caused duplication of tags on a previously published draft
· Fix a bug that prevented existing open document from being located when opening a local draft.
August 25th, 2009· Fix a performance problem that caused slow typing for some users.
· Fix a rare crashing bug that became more common in 10.6 Snow Leopard.
· Fix a bug that caused occaasional distortion of text in the post editor.
· Fix a bug that caused double-clicking a table header to open selected post.
· Fix a crashing bug when adding categories to a blog with no existing categories.
May 8th, 2009· Flickr browser fixes.
· Add support for deauthorizing the current account.
· Fix an issue where a bad URL or missing image size could be inserted.
· Fix a bug in the display of ampersands (&) in image titles.
· Use Leopard 10.5 style for window's status bar text.
· AppleScript date-setting command now accepts string date descriptions.
March 30th, 2009· Dramatic performance improvement for Flickr browser.
· Fix bug where default settings not applied to posts created from bookmarklet.
· Fix bug that prevented "Show in weblog" from working when a blog icon is selected.
· Now accepts escape or cancel keyboard shortcut for "Don't Send" button in post warnings sheet.
· Update the "What's New" page in Help to cover 2.3 changes.
March 24th, 2009· Improved Media Manager Performance - We turbo-charged the Media Manager window so it opens much faster when you have lots of photos or other media in your collection. Spend less time waiting and more time posting!
· Revised Technorati Tags Editor - If you like to add Technorati Tags to your posts, you'll find the process much smoother starting in 2.3. The editor now lets you easily add or remove tags completely with the keyboard, or with the mouse if you prefer.
March 10th, 2009· Support for Tumblr
· Opening the media manager is now much faster with lots of photos
· Improved usability and design of the Technorati Tags editor
· Improved weblog Favicon detection
February 12th, 2009· Improve networking compatibility by always encoding XML “>” literals.
· Fix a bug in the preview window that could cause it to stop updating.
· Fix a possible crash when closing the enclosure sheet before URL finishes loading.
· Fix a bug that caused media manager upload choice to be out of sync with post.
· Fix a bug that prevented some 10.4 users from toggling table column visibility.
· Improved accessibility of the check for updates dialog.
October 23rd, 2008· Fix a bug that prevented adding categories on some Blogger blogs
· Fix a bug that caused blank categories on some Movable Type blogs
October 15th, 2008· Restore slight indentation to Title column in blog posts list.
· Fix a crash that could occur when typing Thai and other characters that use more than one glyph per character.
· Fix a bug that prevented using categories with single quotes in them on Blogger.
· Fix a bug that prevented adding new categories to a freshly configured blog.
· Fix a bug where selecting category could undo category choice from toolbar popup.
· Fix bugs that caused the upload and insert buttons in media manager to stay enabled inappropriately.
· AtomPub-specific fixes.
· Support nodes that have namespace prefixes.
· Be sure to properly strip markup child from xhtml content nodes.
· Eliminate obsolete attribute behavior for and elements.
· Fix resolution of relative URLs in service document.
· Support "Excerpt" field for AtomPub, mapping to the "Summary" attribute.
· Recognize a blog's category list when embedded inline in service document.
· Fix a bug that caused inappropriate UI fields to show on AtomPub blogs.
· Show correct error message if AtomPub disabled on a WordPress blog.
· Enable support for adding categories if the categories are not fixed.
July 23rd, 2008· AtomPub is a new specification for communication between a blog and a remote editor such as MarsEdit. To use MarsEdit with your AtomPub-compatible blog, select "Other AtomPub Compatible" from the configuration popup in your weblog settings, and enter the service document URL in the RPC URL field.
· Now you can use MarsEdits powerful markup macros in the media window. In addition to the built-in macros for image alignment, you can add your own to finely tune the markup that is used when inserting images or other files. Just select Edit from the bottom of the popup menu that, by default, only contains alignment tags.
· Significant speed improvements to launch time and sorting the table of weblog entries.
· Support for removing unwanted items from the media catalog.
· New post table columns for viewing Tags or Post ID.
· A date editor pull down for easily selecting todays date.
· Improved MIME type generation for uploaded files.
· Blosxom now uses the Slug field to specify the file name.
June 18th, 2008· Add a dock menu item for easily starting a new post
· Support uploading to specific Picasa album for Blogger users
· Prevent dragging a URL to preview window from loading that URL
· Fix display of tags in main window preview
· Safeguard against bad URLs that could cause a crash when refreshing
April 4th, 2008· Fix detection of draft posts from WordPress 2.5 and Blogger.
· Added support for the #tags# placeholder in preview template
· Fix console errors when refreshing with main window closed
· Improve handling of localhost-based blog URLs.
· Markup item placeholder #askurl# now defaults to Enter a URL: instead of Enter Text:
· Avoid escaping characters in URLs pasted or entered in dialog.
· Fix a bug involving UI display for Blosxom-based weblog settings.
February 4th, 2008· Work around a conflict with a WriteRoom plugin that caused an XML parsing error
· Fix preview problem with preview placeholder tags inside HTML tag attributes
· Fix Tags support for 10.4 Tiger
February 1st, 2008· Search Your Drafts and Entries: Now you can quickly filter your posts and drafts by keywords. Just type a word or phrase into the toolbar search field, and MarsEdit will restrict the post listing to only items that contain the text you've typed.
· Native Tags Support: For supported systems, including Movable Type and WordPress, MarsEdit now offers a field for capsule-style tagging of your posts. It even remembers the tags you've typed before, so you'll be able to reuse them in a jiffy on future posts.
· Improved Web Preview: MarsEdit's built-in preview sports a sleek new default appearance, massively enhanced performance, and fine-tuned usability. Now previews update quickly and without flickering or jumping around as you edit your post.
· Save Drafts To Server: A new Post Status popup in the options pane lets you choose between Published and Draft status. Server support for this feature is somewhat hit-or-miss, so be sure to test with something not too embarrassing!
September 18th, 2007· Beautifully Refined User Interface - MarsEdit 2.0 extends the simple elegance of MarsEdit 1.2, incorporating new features while continuing to simplify the user interface. Much more than just a pretty face, MarsEdit's beauty and simplicity help you be a more productive weblog author.
· Seamless Flickr Integration - The streamlined Media Manager now sports a dedicated tab just for Flickr! Browse your most recent photos, or your entire collection. You can even search by tag or photo title. When you find the perfect picture, insert it into your post with the click of a button.
· Powerful Markup Macros - Nobody likes to type HTML code, which is why MarsEdit's markup macros are so invaluable. With the ability to transform text from the editor or the pasteboard, you'll find it a breeze to customize macros for the most tedious of your HTML tasks.
· Streamlined Post Editor - The post editor was completely rethought for MarsEdit 2.0, giving you the power to show or hide fields in the window so that only the useful elements are visible. On supported weblogs, you can even add new categories, or edit the slug (short URL name) of your posts, without ever leaving MarsEdit.
· New Printing Support - MarsEdit makes writing on the web a real joy, but sometimes it takes marking up a paper copy of your masterpiece to make sure you've gotten all the kinks out. With MarsEdit 2.0 you can print both the raw text of your post or the HTML preview, making it a snap to take your work-in-progress offline for yourself or others to review.
· A huge number of "tiny tweaks" have been made to MarsEdit, moving it ever closer to perfection. Take a look around and see how well it suits you!
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