Re: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Tuesday May 9th 2006

date posted 9th May 2006 17:08


On 9 May 2006, at 12:02, Julian Voelcker [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> I would like to write an extension to capture the URL being viewed,
> pop up a
> dialog to gather a description and allow the user to select a
> category and
> then to squirt the info either to a database on the web (using
> webservices)
> or to a local text file for uploading.
>
> It's basically to make it easier for researchers to build up a list
> of links
> in a database with comments.

Have a look at Divmod's Click Chronicle (clickchronicle.com), it
might well do the job for you. Alternatively, unzipping the extension
xpi file and then jar -x'ing the enclosed jar file might well throw
some bright light on what's involved.

Cheers,

Graham.