Dec 22
Performancing plugin for Firefox
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!
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December 22nd, 2005 at 9:47 pm
Hello Richard,
I’m sorry I am posting this question here on this post, but unfourtunatly I could not find a contact email and was afraid that if I posted this question in the post that it belongs to, it would go unnoticed. What I want to inform you about is that your plugin ShowOnFrontPage has a dead link. I have tried to download your plugin, but I recieve a 404 error saying that the file does not exist on the server. If you are still offering this plugin, I would appreciate it very much if you updated the link
Thanks
Nima Haghighi-Mood
December 22nd, 2005 at 9:52 pm
My bad! I just moved web hosts and that was one file I didn’t put back in its proper place
Enjoy!
December 22nd, 2005 at 10:39 pm
Thanks very much!
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:51 am
Need spellchecking? The latest development build of SpellBound integrates seamlessly with this blogging tool.
December 23rd, 2005 at 9:50 am
Asa,
Thanks for the update
Hopefully that is not a shot at my spelling skills 
If anyone wants a tester for implementing image upload, be glad to help!
February 10th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Richard, I can’t seem to make Performancing work with your ShowOnFrontPage plugin. When I post through Performancing the box to show on front page isn’t checked by default.
February 11th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
I needed version 3.1. It’s now fine, thanks. Perhaps update the link from the plugins wiki.