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Shift Edit Firefox Extension v0.1.8

Even though phase 1 of ^Edit (getting it debugged and fully implemented) is far from over, I couldn’t wait to branch out phase 2: a Firefox extension.  I’M A MAAADMAN! :D   Eventually, I’d like to see ^Edit do for the content on the web, what GreaseMonkey does for the structure.  You can consider it a refinement of the Wikialong extension, but we’re not talking about a sidebar; we’re talking about changing the content inline!  Wooohooohooo *evil Jabba laugh* 

I’ve set the extension to enable ^editing of any html paragraph (<P>) on a page. 

Now don’t get too excited just yet, I’ve commented out saving your changes for now.  The server-side code and database isn’t stable enough for you crazy maniacs to start smacking my server…yet.  But, it’s a very small change to the javascript to do so.  I just have to convert the XMLHTTPRequests to use the Firefox-only, cross-domain GM_xmlhttpRequest.

Now install this puppy and head over to CNN to have some fun ^editing their stories ;-)

Shift Edit Firefox Extension v0.1.8 

NOTE: The Shift Edit demos on this site will NOT work after you install this extension (same code overlapping :-) ) so make sure to disable/uninstall this extension when you’re done having your fun.

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4 Responses to “Shift Edit Firefox Extension v0.1.8”

  1. Jac says:
    September 19, 2005 at 2:59 am

    Hi. Is there any chance of getting an example of the wiki.php page that saves edited content to db an retrieves it??

  2. Jaco says:
    September 19, 2005 at 3:01 am

    Oi! My keyboard went crazy on the previous post!

  3. Jonathan says:
    September 19, 2005 at 12:37 pm

    Hey Jaco, sure thing. I’m just one point release away from releasing the source for that. I just need to add some security enhancements so spammers don’t have a field-day :-)

    Essentially though, wiki.php just sends/retrieves the HTML into a database, keyed to the HTML element id.

    Thanks for your interest! :D

  4. Mortimer says:
    February 7, 2006 at 10:08 am

    All of this is really exiting!!

    it would already be nice to add this to an existing CMS… meaning: you display on your page: compatible ^Edit, and people with extension/favelet can edit your pages!!!

    => decentralized (when provided by the server) editing in a sense…

    Essentially though, wiki.php just sends/retrieves the HTML into a database, keyed to the HTML element id.

    cool, a generic layer would be nice for that, so anyone can use the saving/retrieving API with their particular implementation on the server-side.