April 12, 2008
New ScribeFire preview release
Filed under: Preview, Releases, ScribeFire -- Christopher Finke @ 12:32pmUpdate: The latest preview build is here.
There’s a new preview release posted at the ScribeFire Google Code project for anyone interested in testing the next generation of ScribeFire.
Notable changes since the last preview was posted:
- Lots of bug fixes for tabbed editing
- Added option to have custom ping URLs
- Fixed behavior of <pre> tag
- Fixed YouTube embedding in Blogger
- Added “Add video from YouTube” button
Check it out and leave any feedback as comments on this post or as a new issue here. I believe that this next release will be one of ScribeFire’s best, simply because of the amount of feedback you’ve been sending in.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Short test:
YouTube: FlashBlock installed-> Can’t activate flash through FlashBlock icon.
Two tabs: Tabs ‘jump’. They become smallewr on mouseover.
New Tab: Prefilled with invisible br and tab
Did I mention that the menu icons disappear when you go to the preview tab. Confusing! Some info needed.
Notes: Couldn’t open a note. An error message popped up: Sync Normal: TypeError: … (Idea: Paste error text into editor window).
Entries: What is the ‘Pages’ tab good for?
Posts: The list wasn’t the actual list from a Blogger site. The same from a Textpattern site.
Hope the issues are reproducible…
April 13th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I’m not using the preview.
Some issues:
(1) Should use numeric character entity instead of nbsp. The numeric doesn’t get my feed marked invalid by Feedburner, while nbsp does.
(2) Needs to open in a completely new window (but not a modal window that I cannot move behind another window).
Otherwise, a fantastic extension, one that I’m looking forward to seeing its growth.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am
The preview release resets the custom configurations of the menu bar and the navigation toolbar every time Firefox starts up. It also hides custom toolbar icons from User Agent Switcher, Web Developer Toolbar, and hides DownThemAll!’s toolbar button text and probably breaks more toolbar stuff. Also the ScribeFire toolbar icon does not appear properly in the customize window.
The new left tabs are nice for the pages of ScribeFire, but they are not properly hidden when the Settings to hide the Bookmark and Page Tools items are checked.
Also FTP information is not properly imported from 1.4.8, and if you try to enter in the same information Firefox complains about duplicate entries when you try to save it.
It does look nice but unfortunately is too buggy for regular use. I do like the UI changes you’ve made though so far.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:13 am
W^L+: NBSP is the proper way to insert an non-breaking space regardless of character set. If you use numeric character codes you risk the output becoming corrupted when displayed in a different character set than it was written for, so I would recommend AGAINST using those. For example, #130 and eacute both display the same character, but eactue is guaranteed to work in any character set that has the eacute character even if it isn’t 130, while inserting the character directly or using a numerical code may cause the character to change if a different character set is used.
It sounds like a Feedburner bug to me, and you should inform THEM of it.
In short I would request ScribeFire to continue using nbsp.
Markus: Wordpress supports Pages which are separate from normal blog posts. Basically it allows you to make your entire website in Wordpress and have it match the look and feel of your Wordpress theme easily. Other blogging software probably also support similar features.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Dan: This is the second report I’ve had of ScribeFire messing up customized toolbars, but I can’t get it to happen on my machine. What OS/Firefox version are you running?
June 7th, 2008 at 12:51 am
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