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ScribeFire blog editor – the review

After spending some time using the ScribeFire 1.4.2 blog editor, here is the review. My review is made by comparing the built-in editor in WordPress with ScribeFire.

Hyperlink
In WordPress editor, you have the option to specify whether to open a link into a new window or tab. However, in ScribeFire, there are no such option. All links created in a post will be opened in the same window or tab. To me, this is not good. There is workaround to this, however, by using the “source editing” option:
By clicking the icon, you will see the source itself. In this option, you can manually add “target=”_blank”" in the hyperlink address of the link that you want.

Image
Once you put up an image in your post, there is no option to specify the alignment, border, vertical or horizontal space. The workaround for this is as per above as well, i.e. by using the “source editing” option. You can manually insert “align=”left” border=”0″ hspace=”10″ vspace=”10″ /” in the image tag.

Split post
There is no option to specify split post (… read the rest of this entry…). Again, by using the “source editing” option, you can manually specify “<!–more–>” at the point where you want to split your post.

Save as note
This option is very handy in case you want to save your post temporarily before posting. Simply click the “Save as Note” button at the bottom left of the screen to save your post and continue writing later.

Conclusion:
Other than the above, ScribeFire is a very good editor. I will use this as my blog editor from now on.

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