- I noticed that if I have an image on my clipboard, and then try to rearrange an existing image in ecto that it will paste in the image that I have on my clipboard. This is kinda annoying since I sometimes copy an image from the web into Skitch to make some changes, then drag the image from Skitch into ecto. Then when I try to move it around it just places a copy of the original image on my clipboard. The only workaround for this that I know of is to copy some text, and then move the image where I want it.
- If I try to code a table in the HTML view the editor will spit back all kinds of warnings. If I choose the "fix automatically" option it will normally insert all kinds of <br> before the table. I think when switching back to the rich-text mode there should be three options if there are errors in the code: fix automatically, fix manually, and ignore. Or maybe better support for tables would work. The update you released today fixes some of the issues I had with the <br> getting automatically inserted, but not with the tables.
- Inserting drop-down menus doesn't quite work as expected. An example is if I enter in this into the HTML view:
<select>
<option>Milk</option>
<option>Coffee</option>
<option>Tea</option>
</select>
If I switch back to the rich-text mode the drop-down menu will appear just fine, but if I switch back to the HTML view (again) the code is completely gone. - It would be nice if ecto supported copying and pasting of rich-text in Firefox like it does for Safari.
- Being able to highlight a body of text to generate a bulleted list would be cool. Maybe a good solution for that would be to let users highlight a body of text, click the bulleted/numbered list button, and use breaks or paragraph markers as delimiters for items in the list? On a similar note, why is there always a blank line inserted after a bulleted/numbered list when they are created?
- Being able to set the autosave time down to 1 minute is pretty important to me since so much can change in 5 minutes. I manually did this using the PrefEdit application, but I think you should be able to select 1 minute as an option. If you're worried about performance then maybe you should just display a popup message letting the user know it could degrade performance, but I definitely haven't found that to be the case.
- A resizable custom tags window would be incredibly helpful! I have over a dozen custom tags, and sometimes the small content area (that doesn't even have scrollbars) makes it difficult to edit some of my post templates. They probably aren't meant to hold entire post templates, but I do use them for that purpose.
- If I drag and drop an image into ecto the application should retain the native format for the image. By that I mean if the image I'm adding to ecto is a PNG, then ecto should probably keep that format. Maybe it's just me, but that's kinda how I expected it to work.
- There are some problems when working with lists as well. One of the most annoying things for me is when I do a soft break (Ctrl+Enter) at the end of a list, and then press Enter to create a new bullet it will start a new bullet prior to the current one, instead of moving that item down to a new bullet. For example if a list looks like this:
1) alah
2) blah
3) clah
[blank line created by Ctrl+Enter, press Enter again here and it will create a new bullet ABOVE number 3 instead of moving it down to number 4]
Hope that makes sense?
I'm not sure if you'll be able to fix any of these things, but they would make the software a little nicer. Again, I just got my first Mac about a week ago, and I installed a trial of ecto right away. Looks like I'll be buying it in the end because there's nothing else that even comes close to it in terms of features. Thanks for developing such a truly wondering app... and I love the custom tags feature!
I can reproduce everything that I mentioned, so if you need more info on any of them just ask. Thanks for making such a great product!
