At First Light

Mike Potter brought my attention to the ability of Ecto to set input formats when publishing to Drupal. Very nice.

You go to ecto > settings > weblog > format and voila!

It's nice to find tools that work the way they are supposed to.

As I've been setting up my site in Drupal, I've been really struggling to find a decent WYSIWYG editor.  I've tried nicEdit, WYMedit, and YUIeditor and none of them is useful. 

I can't get YUIeditor to do simple things like links and the menu bar at the top takes more than a third of the editing space.

nicEdit is ok, but does not show images placed as they will show up in the final post.  That's a deal killer -  I might as well write the HTML by hand at that point.  And paragraph breaks are a joke.  You have to enter fn+return to get a real paragraph break.  What's up with that?  If you just press return, you get the same visual result in the editor window, but the breaks don't show up when you publish.  And the HTML it spits out is atrocious.

I had high hopes for WYMedit, but alas, it also spits out atrocious HTML, and has no more fidelity than nicEdit.

Oh well.  I will continue to search for an editor that works.  I wonder if there's a way to get markdown syntax in blog postings.  That might be the best bet for now.  I'll keep searching.  I may just give up and start hacking away with HTML.