Archive for the ‘ Mozilla ’ Category
(Note: this post is also available in Italian on xulit.org)
Picture a Mozilla geek
standing
on the shoulders of another to reach
an electric outlet in the ceiling, then expecting to be returned to
firm floor and instead being shuttled elsewhere to the reason of "one
more outlet to gooooo!".
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After providing a Lisp-like facility for interactive development to
Firefox, it was only fair for the cute panda to return the
favor and lend some rendering power to Emacs. Four lines of Lisp,
a little hack and a function theft from w3m.el later, something
pops up in an Emacs buffer...
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In October I introduced custom interactors and someone asked what can be done with them other than application inspection.
Here's a practical application that turns Firefox into a screenshot server. It lets you request e.g. Features and things to note:[ READ MORE ]http://localhost:4242/screenshot/http://en.wikipedia.org and receive a PNG screenshot of Wikipedia homepage. (Instructions to run it are at the bottom.)
This blog used to be mostly about SamePlace. If you've been reading it long enough to remember that, you're probably one of the early adopters, so please virtually celebrate with me this little bit of news. :-) SamePlace won a grand prize together with Shareaholic and Minimap (the announcement lists them in alphabetic order with a numeric bullet and they look like first/second/third prize—they're actually co-winners, just like the twelve runners up.) And it seems it's been a productive time for Italy: my friend Davide is there too with Table2Clipboard. Not bad for this old little country. :-)[ READ MORE ]