doIt Plugin

Zulq Alam me at zulq.net
Tue Feb 5 11:43:20 UTC 2008


I've been thinking about developing Firefox and or Thunderbird plugins 
to allow doIt's from these applications.

Here's how I want it to work:

   - I select some code in an email I am reading
   - I right click and chose print it
   - If multiple images are running, a pop-up allows you to chose
   - A workspace is opened in the image with the selection in it
   - In the workspace the selection is evaluated and printed
   - The result is also displayed in a window in the browser

This may seem a bit pointless, but the goal is to facilitate 
interaction. Once this is working, features could include:

   - File in
   - Browse menus (e.g. implemenators / senders)
   - Do it, debug it, print it, time it, etc
   - ?

And, maybe going the other way (although these can probably be done now 
using protocol handlers):

   - Email it
   - Search for it
     - Google
     - Squeak-Dev
     - Seaside-Dev

What do people think of this idea? Has something been done like this 
before? Any suggestions how I do it? Anyone interested in working on this?

I haven't done any FF/TB plugin development before. I think it would be 
pretty straight forward to provide a web service on the squeak side. Not 
sure how best to do multiple image switching.

Thanks,
Zulq.




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