TigerEdit: Weblog Editor Of The Future
April 29th, 2007Brent Simmons unearthed some ancient history from 2002, when MarsEdit was just a twinkle in his weblog-dreaming eye. Check out the screen shot.
I’m writing this post in a very early development build of MarsEdit 2.0, which is the great grandchild of Brent’s original TigerEdit vision. The differences are astounding, and yet so are the similarities! We’ve come a long way, baby.
Notice the name of the product is TigerEdit? Brent has an affinity for cats, big and small. One of the first questions I had for him after taking over the MarsEdit source base was whether I should leave this funny method in the the system-determination code:
- (BOOL) isTigerBlog;
MarsEdit supports all of the world’s most popular blogging systems, including Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, MovableType, Drupal, and yes, TigerBlog :)
April 30th, 2007 at 1:22 am
a very early development build of MarsEdit 2.0
Woah! :-0 Any feature sneak peeks you can grant your loyal usership? :)
April 30th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Nothing public yet, but I might be able to share some peeks in a few weeks ;)
May 1st, 2007 at 4:30 am
So what is TigerBlog? I googled for it but didn’t see anything that looked blog-software related.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:09 am
Taybin: It’s just the name Brent gave to the method that checks whether the blog is running Brent’s custom blog software. I assume he wrote it himself partly because he was into blogging so early, and partly because it made a good test bed for MarsEdit & NetNewsWire.
May 6th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I’d love to help test the beta. I have 4 blogs that I update almost daily.