Comments on: First Flight: ScribeFire

By: diyism

diyism — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:50:22 +0000

Andy, if you wanna to “blog this here page”, you could modify performancing.jar\content\scribefire.js,
such as you wanna auto fill title, you could add “win.performancingEditor.setTitle(‘cite:’+this.getLastPageURInTitle()[1]);”
before “win.performancingEditor.setTitle(‘cite:’+this.getLastPageURInTitle()[1]);” in performancingUI.doInsert = function(textToAppend) {…}.

By: Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » First Flight: ScribeFire 2.3.2

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:35:23 +0000

[...] I probably need to check the current state of posting tools. I didn’t like ScribeFire much back in the spring, but hey, maybe it’s moved forward since [...]

By: Wolfman-K

Wolfman-K — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:21:03 +0000

Andy,

So I’m curious, when offline blogging tool do you use most often? What’s your fallback? Mars, Ecto, some other?

By: Ihnatko

Ihnatko — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:13:13 +0000

@all – I have to admit that I’m ignorant about tools that help you blog about a current webpage. Again, I’m the victim of my own GEEE-nius. On CWOBber, it took me less than an hour to create a tool that presents you with a list of every open Safari webpage, with the topmost one already selected. You click a button, and it slaps all of the particulars into your current blogpost.

So I don’t think ScribeFire is a bad tool at all. My negatives are associated with what I expected it to do, and those expectations may or may not be fair.

I must admit that I’m a bit lost about the advantages of a blog editor as a Firefox plugin. If you’re sitting at your own computer, you might as well have the added sophistication of a standalone app. If you’re looking for “blog without leaving my web browser” functionality, why not go with a completely server-side solution (like WordPress’ own web-based editor) that lets you do it from any browser in the world?

By: Christopher Finke

Christopher Finke — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:19:44 +0000

Good points; I’ll take them into consideration as we continue to refine the interface and add features.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:35:53 +0000

I’d love to hear your thoughts on MacJournal during your ongoing rundown of blog clients. It’s sort of a second-rate blogging tool, as that’s not its main focus, but that’s really what makes it interesting.

By: gizo

gizo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:55:35 +0000

I have no suggestion for you, Andy… :(
It does sound like you’re looking for an interface like what tumblr offers. A javascript bookmarklet that opens a tumble page, which in turn offers simple posting of images, quotes, videos or whatever from the page you were viewing…
Perhaps there is some way to have a secret tumblr that pushes content to wordpress? or maybe a similar wordpress plugin?

Good luck
(ew! got a terrible “The network is busy” note when I attempted to post – bad juju)

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:07:00 +0000

andy, you should try flock. its a browser that integrates with media sharing and social networking/bookmarking sites. it has a blog editor build in and it works great with the flickr integration and what they call web clipboard, a visual trapper keeper for content you can drag into a sidebar. plus its based on firefox, so you can use all the extensions…

for the stuff your trying to do here, it works perfect… for me at least

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:00:19 +0000

I happen to like ScribeFire a lot. You can use it on any OS, since it is a Firefox-Addon and it even has one feature which even MarsEdit is missing: It can edit “Pages” in WordPress.