All posts tagged extension
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
I find Facebook to be a very useful tool for networking and keeping up with what my friends and acquaintances are doing. However, with the proliferation of optional add-ons for profile pages, I sometimes miss the simpler and more focused Facebook of a few months ago.
To make the site easier to work with, I wrote a little add-on for my favourite browser. The Face Off Extension for Firefox let’s you turn off 3rd party Facebook applications.
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Tags: extension, facebook, firefox
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
In advance of the general release of Firefox version 2, I’ve updated both the X-Ray and Professor X extensions to work with the new browser. You can either download the updated versions here at DesignMeme.com or get them from the official Firefox Addons site.
Thanks again to everyone who has emailed to say they’ve found these extensions useful and offered suggestions for future versions. While I would have liked to have provided some new features in these updates, I’ve been focused on other things the past few months. My wife and I are expecting our second child, and we’re now in the final days counting down to the new arrival! It’s a very exciting time, and we’re really looking forward to meeting the new baby.
Tags: development, extension, web
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
The X-Ray extension, which lets you see the underlying tag structure of a webpage, has been updated to version 0.8. X-Ray is now compatible with both Firefox and the new Flock Browser which recently moved into public beta.
The new version of X-Ray adds support for displaying tags for table, tr, script and a few other elements! Tags will now show both ID and Class details if they exist. The update also improves compatibility with the new Professor X Extension—also available for both Firefox and Flock.
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Tags: development, extension, plugins
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
My second Firefox extension is ready for download today!
Professor X let’s you see inside a page’s head without viewing the sourcecode. This is the companion extension to
X-Ray which reveals the underlying code within a page’s body, although either extension can be installed and used on its own.
Once installed the Professor X command is available by right-clicking as well as in the Tools menu. When applied to a page it will display the contents of the page’s head element, including Meta, Script and Style content. This can help you see how a website was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser.
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Tags: development, extension, web
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
It’s been a couple of week’s since I posted an update—and time to get things back in gear.
Here’s another update to the X-Ray Extension, bringing us up to version 0.7 and adding display of class and id attributes for elements. This was a frequently requested feature, and now that it’s added I think it really adds to the extension. X-Ray will show the tags, class and id names for content generated by external javascript files, which makes integrating generated content like news feeds into your site’s design a bit easier.
The update.rdf file seems to be behaving a little unpredictably, so if Firefox doesn’t tell you an update to the extension is available you can install from here:
Install X-Ray Extension for Firefox
X-Ray is now available from the official Firefox Add-ons site as well, for the people who only install extensions listed there. As of this post they’re still showing version 0.6, but 0.7 should be available soon.
Thanks again for all the support. 
Tags: designmeme, development, extension
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Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Two quick updates you might be interested in:
Most of the people who have updated to the newest version of Firefox will have noticed the X-Ray extension reports that it isn’t compatible. I’m going to update the file to make it work, as well as include support for a wider range of tags. That should be ready in the next day or two.
I’ve also been helping Dave at OntarioFilm.com get the site updated and adding some new features to the message board. If you’re a filmmaker, or would like to be involved in a film project in Ontario, visit the site and join the community. We’ll continue adding content and features over the next few weeks.
Tags: designmeme, extension, film, plugins
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