There is one application category on the Mac that is surprisingly weak, blog editors. Windows users have Live Writer, and I’ve yet to meet someone using it who doesn’t love it.

My primary tool has been Ecto, which is still the best editor hands down, but when I changed my blog templates a few months ago I noticed some weird paragraph line spacing issues and I had to manually put paragraph tags around everything, which sucked.

I only noticed this because I was trying out Qumana and it formatted fine. Qumana has it’s own issues, but most significantly it doesn’t have strong feature support for dealing with images.

MarsEdit recently left Newsgator for Red Sweater and an update was released. I’m using that right now but I’m not very impressed with this tool. No wysiwyg image support and there is no toolbar for formatting, you have to highlight text and dropdown a list of tags. Actually, there’s no wysiwyg support at all, you edit in html mode.

The good news is that Ecto appears to be getting close to a beta for the rewritten version 3, which includes a number of major new additions, most significantly a plugin architecture.