Jason Clarke

A popular blog called Performancing that focuses on helping bloggers improve on their craft has released a new Firefox extension called, appropriately, Performancing. The extension allows you to simply click an icon or press a hotkey, and a composition window pops up right inside the browser allowing you to compose a post instantly. While there are other blog composition tools available (BlogJet and Qumana come to mind), none of them offers the seamlessness that a extension like this does. We’ll see if this post, my first post using it, is successful, but I must comment that so far the user experience is quite good. Performance is very snappy, and it doesn’t appear to tax Firefox in any way. It’s also obvious that this is a 1.0 offering though, as there are little things that would go a long way towards polishing up the user interface. For example, when you open Performancing, you can type a title for your new blog post. Simply pressing the Tab key should jump you straight to the body composition part of the tool, but it doesn’t – you have to reach for your mouse to jump there. Yes, it’s nitpicky, but with competition like BlogJet, they’re going to have to get these small things right. Well, here goes – if you’re reading this, it posted successfully!