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Desktop blog editor comparison computerjoe — Our recent blog editor poll revealed just how many editors there are out there.

Though the majority of people use an online editor, the most voted desktop editors were thePerformancing for Firefox editor, followed by w.bloggar and Ecto. Also, many commenters said that they used BlogJet.

Not all of these editors are free, not all are cross-platform and not all are WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

The Performancing extension scored as the highest desktop blog editor on our poll. Performancing is a free Firefox extension which allows you to draft and publish posts. It has support for del.icio.us, Technorati, pingbacks/trackbacks and FTP. Performancing is convenient due to the fact that it runs inside Firefox.

w.bloggar is a freeware desktop blog editor for Windows. w.bloggar isn't a WYSIWYG editor, meaning you have to write the HTML (or use the buttons to do it for you), instead of writing a post in a way you would write a Word document. Interestingly, w.bloggar lets you either choose to preview through a Mozilla-based preivew, or an Internet Explorer based one. w.bloggar supports trackbacks, pingbacks, FTP and most blogging platforms. Also, it colour codes the HTML.

Ecto is a shareware desktop blog editor, costing $17.95, for Windows and Mac. It, like w.bloggar, is not WYSIWYG. The features of the editor vary based upon the operating system. One useful feature both have is the thumbnailing of images, this saves a lot of work messing around creating them manually.

BlogJet is another piece of shareware, for Windows, costing $39.95. BlogJet is WYSIWYG, and integrates with flickr, web browsers, and various media players. Also, BlogJet allows you to add audio attachments to posts and transmission over OpenSSL.

There are other blog editors: QumanaZoundry and Flock's built-in blog editor are examples. Also, the next version of Microsoft Word allows posting to blogs. — Joe Anderso

 
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