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Firefox plug-in for Sandy
It would be great to have a plug-in to allow us to Sandy info from the browser to our favorite assistant. (Yes, she's a verb now) Maybe we want her to store the bookmark, or grab selected text for a note or reminder. A Sandy button on the toolbar and a right-click option. Icing would be if she had our tags list avail for quick tagging
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Inappropriate?Integration with Evernote would be an elegant way to handle screen grabs, bookmarks etc.... I'd rather see integration amongst apps rather than many separate buttons for different apps in Firefox... -
Inappropriate?Great idea Chris. Someone else mentioned it at one point, but it didn't get traction... -
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Inappropriate?There probably won't ever be a Firefox plug-in or extension for Sandy, as there's now a better way to do it.
There are some projects shaping up that should make developing simple add-ons a lot easier. Previously a full extension had to be written in order to add functionality to the browser. These new projects make it possible to write a few lines of script to add some functionality, instead of spending hours writing a full extension. It makes adding custom functionality much easier. A simple script is much easier and faster to write than a full extension.
Multiple add-ons done as scripts can use the same scripting framework and host. In FireFox, this scripting framework/host is implemented as the Ubiquity add-on. In Internet Explorer 8, they have the ability to have little scripts called "Accelerators". This is close to the same thing. (IE8 provides a scripting framework and can host script add-ons.)
As a small example of scripting, see the bookmark icon I helped create. It pops up a box for the user to fill in with new items for Sandy. It can also send to Sandy all the selected text on the current page, as well as the page URL.
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... -
Inappropriate?Yeah, there are so many other ways to interact with Sandy that I am not sure a Firefox Plugin is required. But, everyone has different needs and processes for doing things so I think it would be useful.
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Inappropriate?Oops. Maybe I'm not being clear. I think that having Sandy integrated with FireFox is a great idea. Extremely useful. I'm just saying that integration probably won't be a proper "plugin" or "extension". There's a newer (and easier) way to do it.
I'm very interested in creating a Sandy add-on for FireFox. I just don't have the time or the knowledge to create a full extension.
The new projects make it possible to add on just a little bit to to the already existing extension / framework. Just a single function or two. Using simple javascript. Previously that wasn't possible. Developers had no choice but to create a full extension. Now the Ubiquity project (for FireFox) and Accelerators (for IE8) will provide an easy way to add a little bit of functionality to your browser.
