I just discovered Performancing, an extension that lets you post to your blog from right within Firefox. This solves one of my pet peeves: navigating to Typo’s admin interface to post, a journey requiring three clicks from the login page.
Performancing lets you blog at any time during your surfing experience simply by hitting F8. It brings up a very clean editor that lets you get right to it, or save your comments as notes if you choose. I did find it a little irritating that if you’re typing an entry and mistakenly open a note, you can’t close it and go back to your entry — it’s effectively been wiped and you have to start fresh. Other than that, though, I’m completely enamoured, and quite impressed. When they were first publicized, I thought extensions would be fairly simple, given that they were primarily Javascript. Recently though, there’ve been some amazingly functional and useful ones that really highlight the fact that Javascript (and Mozilla’s XUL) should be taken seriously as programming tools. Like, serious programming tools.
It’s also very cool that you can open up an extension and take a look at the source (though of course 99.9999% of the time no one’s going to do that). That gives me a little piece of mind about malicious code being injected into these extensions, which is a legitimate concern people should have, both with extensions and, more importantly, with Windows apps (such as blogging clients).
Anyway, this is my first post with Performancing. I’m about to publish; fingers crossed :)
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