stack.be

Cool banner with hot chix0rs

| | |

To install directly, click here.

The CodeProjectBar is a Firefox toolbar that contains a number of tools for composing messages on CodeProject. Some of the javascript on that website only works with IE, so I decided to write a small toolbar myself.

The functionality is quite limited a the moment (it does even less than what users would have if they used IE) but it's better than nothing and I'll add functionality as time permits.

Here's a screenshot that shows what it can do (the 'disable' and 'CSS' stuff don't have anything to do with this bar, they're from the webdeveloper extension, which, by the way, is great.)

With the current release (0.2) you can:

Insert bold, italic, underline etc tags.
Make hyperlinks out of selected tags.
Select smileys and insert them into the message (well ok you have these already in the browser).
Quote selected text.

There is some missing functionality as well, of course:

Toolbar buttons don't have icons
Implement resizing of textarea in edit window

And some bugs:

Inserting a character over a selection moves the cursor to the end of the text

When you select some text to make a link out of it and you select a newline with it, the result will have too many newlines.

If you use the toolbar and find more bugs, let me know.

To install it, click here, select "Install now" and restart the browser. The toolbar will be shown by default, turn it off under the 'View' -> 'Toolbars' menu. One last thing: I've only tested it with Firefox 1.0pre but I think 0.9 will work too. Older versions won't.

Version history:

0.2, released Sunday, Oct 31st 2004: Added quoting functionality; improved hyperlink generation by checking if t he selected text already has 'http://' in front; if it does, don't add it anymore.
0.1, released somewhere early October 2004 IIRC: bold/italic/underline etc, hyperlinks, smileys.

Disclaimer: "These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be
yours too."