Jalkut explains for the non-developers like me on the MarsEdit 5 launch blog post. However, this change to how rich text formatting works behind-the-scenes is an investment in the future of MarsEdit and how the app adopts modern technologies. It’s an under-the-hood jump to “WebKit2” that shouldn’t change day-to-day usage. If you’re like me and match keyboard shortcuts to rich text formatting for hyperlinking and stylizing, MarsEdit 5 has something for you as well. What’s new in MarsEdit 5 is Markdown syntax highlighting so words can appear **bold** or _italicized_ in MarsEdit as you write, for example. The app either sent the Markdown text to your blog or converted it to HTML automatically when publishing. MarsEdit was already a fully capable blogging app for writers using Markdown to format posts. Admittedly, I’m a basic rich text writer, but I totally get the appeal of Markdown (especially over HTML). MarsEdit 5 also introduces a great quality-of-life improvement for writers who prefer Markdown for text formatting. Future updates to the Micropost panel will bring photo and video attachments. While the rest of MarsEdit is a full canvas for blogging, the Micropost panel is tuned for speed with a text field and an optional title field. MarsEdit 5 introduces a Micropost panel that can be activated with a system-wide keyboard shortcut so posting a thought to your blog can be as easy as churning out a joke on your timeline. spoiled by Twitter) to make ideas concise and easy to share. People with opinions and observations have been trained by modern social media post formats (i.e. I can see myself blogging about Apple from Mars on an iPad by the end of this decade - assuming Stage Manager gets sorted out by then.īack to the current timeline, MarsEdit 5 has read the room and noticed that bloggers aren’t always sitting at the desk with a medium to long story to tell. No word about MarsEdit for iOS, but that icon could easily be adapted to fit the iPhone and iPad. It continues the awesome rocket-over-the-red-planet theme while conforming to Apple’s current macOS icon style. MarsEdit 5 developer Daniel Jalkut credits Mac community designer Brad Ellis for the new app icon. MarsEdit 5 comes almost exactly five years after the last major version dropped, and it includes a modernized icon to match the rest of your Mac dock. The excellent Mac desktop blogging app MarsEdit has landed with version 5.0 and some timely new features.
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