What I would find highly useful is the possibility to insert/upload more than just one picture at a time, ideally dragging and dropping them from any explorer window. Inserting by dragging is actually possible, but the image path seems to be wrong since uploading fails (better: runs eternally).

It would be great to simply mark 10 images in a folder, drag and drop them into scribefire and upload them in some kind of batch mode.

I’m convinced that other users would benefit from it, too. For instance when blogging while in holidays or on travel, having a travel diary. Uploading every image one by one would be quite annoying, right?

Please let me know whether this will become possible!

Thank you
Alexander

OK, I stop here.

My capabilities
I’m a lowly cut and paste user of javascript, and also would-be PHP snippet paster.
I’ve had to avoid Blogs since they introduced the requirement for so much code use – MySQL, and anything not simple-non-geek-WYSIWYG, like I can handle.
After 10 years of searching I’ve found flat file web tools including database tools (why weren’t these around earlier to make Blogging usable for me? boo hoo – why didn’t “blogging” just become a “seamless” optional format of site-making?)

My browser function desires
ScribeFire seems to add the functions to the browser that I was always resorting to multiple aps for while using MS IE – instead of locked-in-to-IE use of MHT to save web image+text+links+layout I found I had to use WordPad as the smallest memory/processor burden tool, which could approximate a simple tool for Drag N Drop saving of web info.NetSnippets eventually won me over, over a couple other external-to-browser aps for simplest, small, organized file tool for saving web stuff.

So, now, ScribeFire appears to permit quick, manual data-aggregating/data editing for fast posting to web – reducing a LOT of time in the “interactive web” use/work/play. (Yeah!)

If ScribeFire included a few more functions (all of which exist in other javascript project code, as well as PHP scripts) but no single, unified UI, I’ll be happy, good-to-go, and can quit bugging smart programmers like you folks. (hint )

Is the XPI stuff for FireFox and ScribeFire like javascript and XML?
Sure, even Windows offers task scheduling, but another tied-to-MS, external-to-browser tool. Javascript permits this, but it has yet to be used in aps as often as it would be useful. My main use would be for calendar event posting. I run up against most of the input/scheduling windows needing to at least appear as-if they are the final display/calendar/hourly schedule. This WYSIWYG UI design does not appear in a unified fashion in Google Calendar or Outlook, as far as I’ve seen. When I’ve found the function, the rest of the calendar display functions do not permit easy layout changes.

The other main area would be to include just enough javascript data processing features for scraped/saved web data, and not too much “overhead” pre-loaded code to weigh down the memory usage of FireFox or ScribeFire. Maybe all I’m asking for is like the existing “table tools” that FF permits with RtClick Menu use on selected browser data, but usable in seamless way with ScribeFire saved stuff. The idea is to make sorting, resorting, and saving pre-sorted versions of scraped data (maybe with varying source layouts and underlying code) to be saved. I haven’t been able to get the FireFox tool to show the menu option on all pages or data I select on. (probably not ScribeFire issue, but rather FF issue, or my code-selecting-ignorance).

If these features were included, my need for “database back end site”, including “blogs” wold be obviated. I’d have Flat file database system with flexible scheduling (automated) site/blog updating (automated interaction with web visitors. Maybe there are some fancy reporting requirements ro complex sorting and sifting of data that MySQL databases can perform, but I’ve never had to consider them, not have I been able to imagine what they could be that could not be done with javascript sorting abilities.

Despite my abbreviated notes above, what I’m suggesting would result in a browser-ap that would include most of the functinality of MS Ofiice or OpenOffice, but with the scheduling and data sorting controls, one also has a web-ap developing environment (without even having to load the nice, but big memory requiring HTMLkit, or other javascript development environments – keeping the new, improved FireFox with ScribeFire all under 20Mb (or hopefully under 10Mb).

I have not installed it to test, but it appears to be along the lines of what Mitch Kapor is trying to achieve with the Chandler project – but it is already 30Mb to download, for yet-another-separate-from-browser(FireFox) program. A fairly small memory burden to have to pay for a program to do what you want, but when I’ve been able to cobble together my site, and maintain daily updates with so little coding overhead (though way too much manual operation), it seems I’m only a few hundred K of javascript away and a few educated-knowledgeable-programmer’s years worth of smarts from a tiny, powerful, broadly usable web-interacting browser.

Maybe PiggyBank, or iMacros or the associated web-scraping FireFox add-ons are all I need, with some better javascript skills. Or maybe. . .the GoogleBrowser will be released with all these features, as “seemed” to happen with the prior post to ScribeFire for “post scheduling capablity”.

thanks anybody,

Greg
greg@deafaccessfilms.com

I’ll post feature/function notes and suggestions in this message, but I have other notes for bigger view of adapting ScribeFire, or at least a request for the code, so I can steal it, add the other grandiose ideas, go back in time to about 2000 and develop “the killer browser ap” that “changes the way everybody works on web-connected computer,” etc.

I’ve used ScribeFire for the intended blog posting. Love it. I mainly use it for manual note taking and web scraping. (This is why I made the switch from IE, I use NetSnippets fro simplest, least memory-hogging WYSIWYG/ rich data drag N drop saving/sorting)

Feature adjustment request for Notes display of entry titles:
1. default setting to automatically alpha-numeric sort.
or
2. offer this ability in an Option or Preference menu.

Love the Search feature in Notes section as I am entering and editng dozens of notes, which only rotate off my Acrive list every 4 weeks or so.

Request
for Search and Replace,
or at least text search like FireFox standard search, as requested by Markus Merz 4-27-08, “Editor (general): Search and replace.”

Request Regarding tabs on left, vertical edge
by Halo Zero on 4-26-08 “I also prefer the HTML, Preview, stuff on the left panel.”
and Daniel on 4-29-08, “I second comments #3 and #4 – especially the vertical space point. Keep the write/share/etc buttons on the left, please.”

suggestion 1 on tab position & visibility:
If not too memory intensive, could all tabs offer options to “hide” like Windows main toolbar(?) option. Toolbar appears and remains while being moused-over, then dealys for few seconds to slide out of sight – preserving maximum visual work area.

suggestion 2 on tab position & visibility:
Permit fun/customize mode to allow ScribeFire user to drag N drop tab-sets (or other buttons? sets? where desired, like simple(?) javascript options – only if not memory intensive (system now is fine for me if it keeps FF browser small and fast in size).

Finally, did Google staff swipe this suggestion and implement it on Blogge from ScribeFire feedback by ForDig on 4-28-08? “Timed publishing (ie, the option to post stories for scheduled times, rather than immediately)” Or was it just “in the air” at same time? Great feature.

I can’t tell you how many times I have scooted the cursor over to the “Save as Note” button and missed, thus permanently erasing a long blog comment or entry that I cannot easily reproduce. At least put an “Are You Sure?” dropdown or some such, and not have the action take place immediately and irretrievably.

As it is, I’m going back to Word or Pages to write blog content, as no decent word processor will delete everything I just wrote without asking.

As far as the look and feel of your software, I could frankly care less about screen real estate and eye candy, so long as it doesn’t waste my time.