One of the things I miss most since switching from COREBlog to Quills is the possibility to use an external editor such as MarsEdit to compose blog entires offline and the upload/update them with one simple keystroke.

And while Brian and Tom are still labouring away at the 0.9 release (which will hopefully bring XML-RPC support to Quills) I've just realized that I can simply use my old 'passing authorization credentials in Plone' trick together with the URL for creating a new blog entry.

Any Quills user out there interested in doing the same, here's what the URL for your bookmark should look like:

https://URL-TO-YOUR-QUILLS-INSTANCE/createObject
 \ ?type_name=WeblogEntry&__ac_name=YOUR-USERNAME&__ac_password=YOUR-PASSWORD

(Again, this needs to go on one line, so ignore the backslash and the whitespace surrounding it)