BUT, sometimes it does happen to post the article, even though it says it didn’t, all this between crashing constantly.

With an iPad I guess I’ll just be using the web interface, but that makes uploading images impossible.

I wanted to chime in to acknowledge that I am working on an iPad version of MarsEdit, but also to try to shed some light on your point about the absence of rich text support.

Many word-processing type apps on the iPad now support rich text, and it makes a lot of sense from a user perspective then to wonder why blog-editing apps don’t offer the same features.

It’s worth considering that for most blog systems, the “rich text” is really just an intermediate visual for the user’s benefit, which must ultimately be converted to HTML source in order to be published to the blog. While Apple does offer some rich text editing features on the iPhone and iPad, they don’t yet support the “Editable HTML” type format that apps and browsers take advantage of on other platforms to provide “WYSIWYG” solutions.

Even with the editable HTML support, doing rich text editing right is kind of insanely hard. Without the HTML support, it would mean manually guessing how to convert all the rich text into HTML without any help from Apple or, in particular, WebKit.

For really simple stuff like bolds and italics, this isn’t a big deal. And you might argue that web clients should support rich text if only for these things. But then what do they do with other HTML styles like lists, embedded images, movies, CSS declarations, etc. All this stuff would get lost by a “dumb” rich text editor, if it just discarded it in order to make sense of it as rich text.

For a viable rich editor we need something, ideally built into WebKit on iPhoneOS as it is on the Mac, that can do the heavy lifting of most of the conversion between HTML and how it’s displayed for editing on the screen.

You’ll notice that even if you navigate to a WYSIWYG interface via Safari on an iPhoneOS device, the rich editing features are disabled. This is not an easy problem for any one developer to solve, but it will be a lot easier once Apple offers the editable functionality in mobile WebKit.

Daniel

Just leave a comment with the type of device you’d like to use for testing.

Here’s a review of WordPress, Dragon Dictation, Photopad, Disqus Pro, EchoFon & Analytics App for the iPad:
http://tprk.us/cqszHJ

however at least one, Vox, does not work with safari/iPad (keyboard does not show up).

I *know* what I want though: An iPad optimized version of MarsEdit. I think there is already a group haranguing the poor author that he owes it to the community to put one out. He would seriously totally own the category.

I suggest you add your voice as well. I know I have.