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I decided today to try out PostXING
as an alternative to BlogJet. So far my
reaction is mixed.
Pros
Seems to have good WYSIWYG support
I like having the standard HTML heading tags
available in the toolbar.
I can easily insert a horizontal rule in my
post
I love the fact that it has the CodeHTMLer syntax
hilighting engine in it, but it doesn't feel quite as smooth to me as BlogJet
does.
I'm very glad that it supports uploading images
via FTP in the same way that BlogJet does. This is a must have in my
book.
As with BlogJet, I can't open an arbitrary post
by ID. I have to find it in the historical list of posts, which sucks when the
post is from a year ago.
Cons
I have to click a button and wait for a popup
to set the post's categories
I can't use TAB to navigate the UI
which means I have to use the mouse (a serious usability error as far as I'm
concerned). And I don't know if I agree with the idea that TAB causes
BLOCKQUOTE in the resulting HTML.
I can't find keystrokes for many of the
standard formatting things like ordered and unordered lists, styles,
etc.
Sometimes after using CTRL+K to format some
text as a link (good), the input focus leaves the text editor and goes up to
Title field (bad).
I can't figure out how to post with a
keystroke. It should be CTRL+Enter (like Outlook and BlogJet) but it
isn't.
This will be my first post with it, we'll
see if it is also my last. If the author can fix a few of those cons, I would be
considering switching. For now though, I'm not so sure.
This seems like such a simple problem... I
can't believe how poor all the choices really are.
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