June 6, 2008
ScribeFire 2.2.6 Released
Filed under: Releases, ScribeFire -- Christopher Finke @ 02:00amWe are pleased to announce the release of ScribeFire 2.2.6, in which several critical bugs have been fixed, most notably MySpace authentication. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons.
Changes since version 2.2.5:
Bugfixes
- Fixed MySpace authentication (logging in and signing up)
- Fixed bug where SeaMonkey users were getting the Swedish translation instead of English
- Fixed copy and paste into an external editor when using relative paths
- Fix for doubly-encoded entities in Blogger
- Fix for uploading images from a directory including a space in its path
- Fixed date parsing to allow for timezone specification
- Fixed bug wherein using <wbr> tag would break Blogger posting.
New Features
- Added support for using $T, $U, and $S multiple times in the "Blog This" template
- Added "Report a Bug" link in Help panel
- Added InsaneJournal support
Once again, this update can be installed at Mozilla Add-ons or you can wait for Firefox to auto-install the update some time in the next few days.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Scibefire Toolbar still turning itself on automatically while switching tabs and opening windows at random ..
June 8th, 2008 at 7:57 am
I love ScribeFire as an offline blogging tool.
So, since I tested it today on my new ASUS EeePC 900 and had some of the same "problems" as with the ASUS EeePC 701, I'll post some suggestions here. Basically we're seeing a rush of ultra portable notebooks - and it is exactly on such devices that this Ffx plugin would be very useful - since ultra portable devices are often outside, on the road, often offline...
The point here is: these devices have a bit lower screen resolutions:
ASUS EeePC 701 = 800x480
ASUS EeePC 900 = 1024x600
I can configure ScribeFire to oen in a new tab - which is a very cool option. It helps solve the problem of too little height (even on the EeePC 701 that's OK). Now the main problem is the width. Please consider following or similar changes for a future release:
- shorten text on buttons underneath textarea. Maybe subsitute "Publish to 'ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging!" for "Publish" or better even: work with icons.
- also the other buttons there could be smaller - maybe icons
- we could save some width by somehow moving the icons on the left (Editor, Promote...) - maybe to a place where they use height instead of width, or are accessible only when needed by flyout menu or similar...
- make it possible to close the tab part on the right
- shorten title input field (to maybe half size)
- a great help would be to make it possible to scroll the editor from left to right - so on a EeePC 701 it would be possible to see the right "Publish" button.
Main problems are the editor width. On the ASUS EeePC 701 (800 width) it is practically impossible to press the right publish button, on the EeePC 900 (1024 width) it is only possible by minimizing the right "tabs area" to a few pixels width.
I hope you don't read this as a SribeFire bashing. I love ScribeFire and it would be very cool, if a future release would make it possible for people on the road with small devices to use this. I think it's exactly these on the road people needing such a thing (and it being a Ffx plugin helps people with linux to install it a lot!).
June 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
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June 13th, 2008 at 2:27 am
I see the div tag bug being inserted around a post has reappeared :(
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Question: was my (maybe too long) comment above noticed?