I’ve been a longtime ecto user, but have always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. What with the long hiatus in my posting, my upgrade to WordPress 2.1, and some activity by the developers, I decided to give MarsEdit another try. I’d heard good things about it (some folks swear by it) and it appeared to be pretty professional.

After spending 15 minutes with MarsEdit, all I can say is WTF? How can folks even compare this to the latest ecto? ecto is far and away the better editor, boasting integration with iPhoto, iTunes and Amazon, modifiable templates, customizability up the wazoo, and excellent scriptability.

Granted, I’m running into an iPhoto image upload problem right now, which is what prompted the second look at MarsEdit, but MarsEdit doesn’t even know iPhoto exists, and is definitely not ready to have a conversation with it about how to resize and upload my images.

After looking at the alternative, I’ll gladly put up with ecto’s foibles and debug the problem.