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October 2009

Modifier XPI pour Proposer à ses lecteurs une extension OpenURL Referrer préparamétrée « Encore un biblioblog…

Donc pour modifier les paramètres par défaut de l’extension, il vous faut 1. télécharger le fichier XPI au lieu de l’installer sur Firefox (donc aller sur le site d’Openly, et faire un clic gauche “Enregistrer la cible du lien sous…” 2. dézipper le fichier (changer l’extension .XPI en .ZIP si nécessaire) 3. modifier les fichiers (XML) nécessaires pour que les paramètres par défaut soient différents 4. rezipper tous les fichiers, remettre une extension .XPI au ZIP obtenu 5. charger le fichier XPI sur un serveur 6. pointer vers ce fichier depuis une page du site de la bibliothèque, vantant les mérites de cette extension Le plus difficile évidemment, c’est l’étape 3. Je vais essayer d’être le plus clair possible, car il me semble que le XML fait peur à certains.

November 2008

Ubiquity __Presentation ____Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive »

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Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to: * Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.) * Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.) * Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility. * Extend the browser functionality easily.

Ubiquity__Firefox Add-ons__

It is activated by the keyboard CTRL Space command which displays a transparent black rectangle in the upper left corner of the screen below the Firefox header area. That screen resembles a command line waiting for user input. There are about 50 commands that Ubiquity comes installed with which are the core of the extension. This reaches from posting messages (about a website) to Twitter, looking up information on Wikipedia, performing web searches on various search engines or looking up information on Google Maps. The real benefit for the user is that he does not have to leave the current tab to get the information because everything happens in that black box. Results are shown in that block as well in real time.