Firefox just automatically detected a new version 1.2 of Performancing, the Firefox extension that gives you a word-processor-like interface for writing blog posts. Funny thing is, even the Performancing web site is still listing the current version as 1.1.1.
Which can only mean one thing: I’ve moved forward in time. I’m now living in the future, but blogging into the past. (I’d offer you stock tips, but That Would Be Wrong. Suffice to say that I know how 24 ends, and anyone who can’t already foresee the cliffhanger with Kim surrrounded by rabid kangaroos just isn’t paying attention.)
But the real question for me is: do new versions generate anything approaching sane markup? When I checked it out a few months back, its output brought tears to my eyes — it was a mess of linebreaks (no paragraph tags fergosshakes), NBSP’s and a mess of presentational stuff that looks sorta OK in a browser and terrible to everything else. Even by the brain-damaged norms of WYSIWYG editors, it was lousy.
Funny that despite the occasional nod to structured blogging, so many weblog “tools” out there have trouble supporting anything beyond paragraphs and blockquotes (the latter if you’re lucky). Probably not a concern for the majority of users who suffer from WYSIWYG disease.