It’s almost too late, but don’t forget your Festivus Poles!
Archive for December 22nd, 2005
Wow, while I was sitting back waiting for Flock to mature, and using Qumana in the meantime, I discovered the Performancing for Firefox extension!
PFF puts a WYSIWYG post editing window right into Firefox, accessed via F8, a 
icon in the status bar, or by right clicking and using the Performancing >> Blog this item.
The main things I am looking for in a blogging tool are:
- WYSIWYG (w/ ability to get at HTML when necessary
- Integrated image uploading (preferably by drag and drop)
- Previous post editing
- Categories
- Hotkeys for formatting/tools
PFF seems to do 1,3,4, and a passable job at 2, where, like many others, it actually just lets you drag and drop an image and it links to the original referring site (naughty!). It does let you resize the image after it has been inserted, which is pretty slick! (Although again, it’s a bit of a hack, because it uses the size attributes of the IMG link to “resize” on display).
It’s usable and convenient enough that I’ll probably use it fairly often, though Qumana remains in the lead with the new image uploading features available in their drag’n'drop tool.
(And yes Viriginia, this post was done via Performancing 
)
(And just to prove you can edit, here’s an update with a link to an excellent tutorial on PFF!