Ecto 2 beta

Cory Doctorow 5:30 am Thu Sep 9, 2004

All four Boing Boing editors use Ecto, a blogging tool, to post and manage our material here. Today, a public beta of Ecto 2 launches, a major update that I'm excited as hell to get my hands on.

The basic idea behind ecto's WYSIAWYG is to offer users the ability to compose entries without having to bother with HTML tags. Since most blog entries are not complete web sites, composition of entries only allows font and paragraph changes, indentation (read "blockquote"), and obviously images (video and audio should follow shortly). Regarding image authoring I had two ways of implementing support for it. I tried the extreme version involving containers and layouts but that produced quite a bit of headache and would slow down typesetting too much. Considering that Tiger's WebKit will allow editing, I chose the easier route. Images can still be positioned and resized in place, but text flow is not what you will see. That's one reason for the 'A' in WYSIAWYG… 'almost' (If your entry fails to post, read "Got" instead of "Get"…).

(via Ben Hammersley)

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