May 15, 2008

ScribeFire 2.2 Released

Filed under: Releases, ScribeFire -- Christopher Finke @ 09:39am

We are pleased to announce the release of ScribeFire 2.2. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons.

New Features

  • Added ability to customize “Blog This” template (How does this work?)
  • Added “Word Count” feature (in editor context menu)
  • Added “Reload Posts” button in Entries tab
  • Added buttons to copy post title/URL to Entries tab
  • Added ability to change link and image properties (alt text, title, etc.) via context menu
  • Added auto-upload of local images when a post is published
  • Added “Insert table” feature

Bug Fixes

  • Fix for double-encoding of & and other entities (issue #231); still working on a fix for this on Blogger
  • Fix for RTL support (issue #93)
  • Fixed blog editing in tab mode

Interface

  • Code updates for easier themeing

You can report bugs with this version or request features for the next version by creating an entry at the Google Code project for ScribeFire. Once again, you can install this latest update by going to Mozilla Add-ons and clicking “Add to Firefox.”

Update: Version 2.2.1 has been released as well to fix a problem with the Argentinian Spanish translation.

10 Responses to “ScribeFire 2.2 Released”

  1. 1
    Agam

    I’ve been waiting a long time for this. I used to hack the editor.js file just to get a url title field and a bold link text. Then it didn’t work anymore, so I was happy that you put this capability in.

    It works insofar as I’m getting a [...title="page title text"] in the right place, but using the same “$T” for the link text, gives me exactly that. Every link text is “$T”. I need to manually delete “$T” and drag/copy the title from where it was saved properly in the title field.

    Also, if I just want to put the link into a note for later use or reference, without any selected text, empty blockquote tags are included each time. If there’s no selected text, it shouldn’t insert the blockquotes.

  2. 2
    Bosque

    Love it. I can now post to Blogsome with ScribeFire.

    Thanks.

  3. 3
    Darren

    Hello, I’m a blogger and use Chinese.

    The “Word Count” feature is useful, but it seems like not supporting counting Chinese characters?
    And I have “1″ word in the all-Chinese-using archive, that’s interesting :)

    By the way, how can I get the Quickblogging toolbar back after I closed it?
    I can’t find any solutions with my bad English reading…

  4. 4
    Kenny

    The save note feature seems to be bugged. Doesn’t save properly.

  5. 5
    Patrix

    I’m using ScribeFire to post on my WordPress (custom install) blog. In the recent update, ScribeFire adds a blank tag to the entire post. In regular posts it doesn’t matter but posts that start with a blockquote or inline asides posts, it screws up the formatting slightly. It pushes the comments notification e.g.(2) on the next line. I’ve to manually go and edit all posts to remove the tags.

  6. 6
    Christopher Finke

    Patrix: Bug has been found and fixed for the next release.

  7. 7
    Scott Garrand

    I may be missing this but is there any chance of supporting a per post password (enough P’s there?) for WordPress in your add on? Other than that it meets all my needs. I just have to log in to my WP page to rant about work with a password. :)

  8. 8
    Christopher Finke

    Darren: I admit that the Word Count feature only works in Western languages, since I don’t know how to determine what constitutes a “word” in languages like Chinese or Japanese.

    You should be able to re-enable the QuickBlogging toolbar in the “Settings” tab of ScribeFire.

  9. 9
    Steve Farrell

    2.2.1

    Problems. Can’t align right. First and second paragraph are pulling together, no line break.

    Speed, the thing has really slowed down.

    I don’t see the social networking things that used to be available via that green button.

  10. 10
    sftry

    How to use the Insert Table feature? I don’t see a command in the UI. I am using 2.2.7

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