Feature Summary

BlogBaboon already supports the following features:

• Authenticate with your Google account.
• Choose a blog (if you have more than one).
• Browse the blog's list of posts.
• Delete an existing post.
• Create a new post.
• Edit the title/content of an existing post.
• As-you-type spelling correction.
• Publish a post.
• Persistent preferences.
• Preview using your blog's actual template and layout.

Philosophy

Goals

At a higher level than a list of features, these are the goals behind the BlogBaboon feature set:

• More convenient editing than the web-based editor.
• Better support for decent formatting/typography than the web-based editor.
• Markup readable as plain text, like a good wiki.

Compatible Non-Goals

There are things I'm unlikely to work on myself but would welcome high-quality patches for:

• Off-line features (editing, backup, and so on).
• Blog management (creating/deleting blogs, say).
• Working on more than one blog at once (at the moment, if you have more than one blog, you have to restart to switch).
• Blog-wide find/replace.
• Supporting blogging services other than Blogger.
• Scripted stuff like "now playing in iTunes" (mystifyingly popular).
• Tables and graphs (and graphs generated from tables).
• Math markup (something like LaTeX, say).
• Special support for photos/images (beyond "insert an IMG tag manually").

Incompatible Non-Goals

There are other things it would be hard to convince me make any sense in the context of BlogBaboon:

• Non-markup ("rich" or "WYSIWYG") editing.