@danielpunkass @manton I keep thinking about how awesome a MarsEdit for Micro.Blog app would be. You should get your manager’s clearance to move forward with it.
@canion What are some specific things that you wish MarsEdit were more specialized to Micro.blog for?
@danielpunkass Off the top of my head (from my iPhone without looking at MarsEdit!): styled markdown; visual indicator of posts <280 characters versus longer titled posts; some method of tracking/linking/cross-referencing @usernames; markdown image management (unless this exists already?); character counter in editor.
@canion @danielpunkass Those features would be great. In some ways MarsEdit can kind of serve as a "Micro.blog Pro" editor.
@danielpunkass Page layout is the major thing for me that I’d want this for. For some of my longer posts, I’ve often written them in Drafts 5, only to copy them into MarsEdit on the Mac so I can put photos and screenshots where I want them. It would be nice to do all of this on one device.
@sku\_b you could actually do this on Drafts, I do every once in a while, with a comnbiantion of Drafts acctions and shortcuts.
@Gabz for micro.blog? It’s the uploading part that’s kind of a pain. MarsEdit takes care of all this on “send”.
@danielpunkass I wish I could use ME to see and edit Pages. I have one page I need to update peridodically and am obliged to use the web for that one. And with 3 MicroBlogs that means remembering which web browser I need and sometimes which email address to use.
@Miraz Hm. Does Safari not have multi-user capability? I use that in Chrome for different accounts, whilst Firefox has "containers" which are great for this kind of thing.
@simonwoods I don't know — I don't think so. One problem with my using a single web browser for all 3 accounts is the extreme likelihood that I'll work on the ‘wrong’ blog.
@simonwoods @Miraz FWIW, I think Safari suffers somewhat from the old Apple conception that user accounts are an OS-level feature, not an application-level feature, on Mac OS X, and that a single person would have no reason to have multiple accounts for any given service. Over time that worldview has eroded somewhat as we humans continued to prove it false, beginning with email accounts and moving through the Keychain and so forth, but because of this underlying worldview, Apple has been less motivated to add those sorts of things to Safari vs Firefox, which had the idea of multiple users of a single Firefox application built-in from the beginning (and Chrome, which was created using Safari’s guts by people who previously worked on Firefox and Netscape).
@smokey @simonwoods After this exchange I realised that all I have to do is set up a couple of Keyboard Maestro buttons that will launch the correct browser with the URL loaded and if necessary reveal to me the relevant email address. Don’t know why I didn’t think of it before…
@smokey I guess there aren't enough web-first people for Apple to justify improving this experience. Looks like their push for an app-first mentality as won out.
@simonwoods Well, I think on the Mac, that need really is still there, in large numbers—although I guess the problem then morphs to the fact that even though there are more Mac users now than ever, they are positively dwarfed by the number of iOS users, so if you’re allocating resources based on the combined total number of Safari users, those Mac people aren’t going to amount to more than a rounding error…