All I want is a simple tool to help me write web content and clearly formatted text. In particular a proposal for a web site redevelopment. <rant>Seems very wrong to be using Microsoft Word. The bloated wee shiite won't start up on this machine anymore anyway. Frankly very glad to see it gone.</rant> Something that does headings, helps with links and HTML entities.

Finds so far:

Nvu.

Mmmmm. OK - starts life in HTML transitional mode. Set to XHTML. Looking promising then it drops in a span with inline style into the text when you hit the BOLD button. What's wrong with just <b> or <strong>? Breaks go in as <br>.

SEEdit

Nice, but without the WYSIWYG.

Amaya

Grrr. It's got all the tags to hand - but is not a "Mac" app. Feels very much like an unpolished Open Source app. Screen redraw is odd. Very bad: I can't find a way to [select all]

Taco HTML Edit

Naw - not WYSIWYG, not XHTML ready (option for uppercase tags)

Well …

Perhaps I'll stick with TextWrangler after all

aside

Completely forgotten the very smart looking application that posts to WordPress et al. … Found it. In the end. MarsEdit. Loads of google searches and head scratching trying to remember where that one came from. Anyway, in the end it's no good for what I'm looking for right now. And its job of easing the posting of content to a WordPress blog looks to be under threat from within WordPress community: the shuttle has launched. That looks great. WordPress has been cumbersome in that regard.