Under-Performancing
My off-the-cuff review of Performancing, the Firefox blog editing extension, was characterized by ambivalence. Since then I’ve made a conscious effort to use it for my blog postings, and there are certainly a lot of attractions. Real WYSIWYG for one thing, so I don’t have to save my work to see how the HTML will look. Being able to edit in a split screen while browsing the web for links and the like is also cool.
Nonetheless, I’ve gone back to the good old WordPress textbox. Performancing still has too many bugs and annoyances, many of which I mentioned in my review. I’ve even managed to lose my work a couple of times, which is hardly endearing. And updates have been few and far between, so I’ve given up on any major improvements in the short term. I’m certainly open to trying again once they’ve had time to iron out the glitches.
In the meantime, WordPress 2.0 has been out for a couple of weeks, and it apparently has WYSIWYG editing and a host of other cool features. I’ll try to give it a test drive next week if I have time.
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Well yeah, about that WP2.0 wysiwyg editor… it can be pretty spiffy, but it can also be a bit brain-dead as well. For instance, be careful mixing ordered and unordered lists. And it seems to get confused on the difference between the break and paragraph tags.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it, but I find I have to pop up the little “html” viewer from it and hand-correct just about every post.
Comment by Chris — 1/19/2006 @ 9:01 pm
PFF 1.1
http://performancing.com/performancing-1.1-preview.xpi
Comment by Scott — 1/20/2006 @ 3:54 am
Try using flock, still in dev preview, but it’s blog integration is a little further developed than performancing’s is.
And it doesn’t have such a weird name.
Comment by Third — 1/21/2006 @ 9:10 pm
I am using WordPress 2, but turned the WYSIWYG editor off right away. I am too used to doing my posts the old way. One thing that you will really like though is the new post preview. If you save and continue editing the edit page loads your site in a frame below the post entry, so it shows you exactly what it will look like when it is posted.
Comment by doc — 1/23/2006 @ 1:26 am