Firebird’s next killer feature
I guess I’ll skip doing a right-click MT It! Firebird extension, because Ben Goodger has a far better idea. As I understand it, Web Panels will be Firebird’s version of the Mozilla/Netscape Sidebar. If, like me, you mostly associate that with the AOLish push content and stock quotes that shipped as the default Sidebars in Netscape, it’s time to think again.
Hard to say exactly what might be “slightly out of date” in Ben’s description of how Web Panels will work, but in a nutshell, it’s just another web page that you can pop up on the left side of the current page. Bookmarks can be targeted to the Web Panel, for things like a weblog update page or your blogroll, or you can temporarily drag a page into the Web Panel, for things like search results or a list of links. So far, nice enough, but not too exciting. Now, picture your weblog posting form in the Web Panel, so that while you write an entry about a page, that page is sitting there in plain view, ready for you to copy another quote or make sure you spell someone’s name right. Since Firebird’s just as happy to display XUL (the interface language that defines the whole browser interface) as HTML, picture your posting form having rich text editing, and being designed in XUL not HTML, so that you get away from the clunky interface that HTML forms force on you, with everything being truly resizable and smooth instead.
Sounds wonderful. Don’t suppose you’re enough of an MT and XUL expert to write it? I know I wish I was.
This is interesting… I’d been playing with the same sort of thing, and my MT bookmarklet (and TypePad QuickPost form) open up in IE’s sidebar. I’d love to see this implemented, I’d probably use it all day every day.
It sure is an interesting feature, but isn’t
this just something like a split screen
view, already implemented in the konqueror
browser for a long time, see:
http://www.hoogervorst.demon.nl/quick/konq-weblog-madness.jpg
Ah .. is it just me? I looked for web panels and couldn’t find them in my version of Firebird (0.7), unless it is the ability to put your bookmarks and such in side panel.
Am I missing something? If so, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Thanks,
Oh. Yeah, this.
I think that web panels rather quickly morphed into the ability to mark a bookmark to be opened in the sidebar. It’s not a very exciting feature, especially since it seems to fight a lot with extensions.
Firebird Web Panels
Via Phil Ringnalda: Firebird’s next killer feature As I understand it, Web Panels will be Firebird’s version of the Mozilla/Netscape Sidebar. If, like me, you mostly associate that with the AOLish push content and stock quotes that shipped as the…
Firebird’s next killer feature
I guess I’ll skip doing a right-click MT It! Firebird extension, because Ben Goodger has a far better idea. As I understand it, Web Panels will be Firebird’s version of the Mozilla/Netscape Sidebar. If, like me, you mostly associate that with the AOLis…
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/003811.html
Phil Ringnalda has a nice write-up on Web Panels called Firebird’s Next Killer Feature.
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