ju66l3r Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Hi, all. I'm considering making a firefox extension for geocaching. It would probably be a right click menu (although I haven't ruled out making a toolbar either) that contained things like the yvanovich bookmarklet, some of boulter's links, cache/TB lookup, turning 'GC######' into links, etc. I have a pretty good understanding of the java/xpi coding and creation process so hit me with your best shots...what kinds of "at-hand" functions would you like to see in a geocaching extension to firefox that would give you some quick shortcuts you might already have in bookmarklets, hidden pages, etc.? Does anyone have anything already started here that they want to see grow? A quick search of this forum didn't turn anything up. Quote Link to comment
+reepicheep Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I like it. If I can think of something I'll post. Just wanted to reply so you know somebody out there is interested. UUoohh. Thought of one. Go to a State page so you can see recently placed caches. If it could only display caches placed that day or previous day (and preferrably not TB placements) then that would be awesome. Kenneth Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted October 4, 2004 Author Share Posted October 4, 2004 Go to a State page so you can see recently placed caches.If it could only display caches placed that day or previous day (and preferrably not TB placements) then that would be awesome. Just going to the state page is good. I can do that easily enough. I'll have to think about how to just display the most recent caches in the state. Something like that might need a dynamic page hosted on my own server with redirects to GC.com for the cache pages or a sidebar. If it were in the toolbar, I could do a once-a-day update, but in order to get what you're looking for, I'm not sure how I could kindly grab the data without doing so every time a new browser window was opened (which could get obscene far too easily). Another idea I had (if I were making this a big enough project would be to add in the RSS forum feed (ala SAGE http://sage.mozdev.org ). Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 How about a ROT13 xpi? I've looked around for one, with no luck. In use, you would select the text, then right-click to bring up the context menu. Selecting the ROT13 option would convert the highlighted text. Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted October 5, 2004 Author Share Posted October 5, 2004 Great idea! One less page load and very doable! Quote Link to comment
+sbur6 Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Whatever you come up with would be great. Firefox is my new browser of choice and any extension that helps with GeoCaching cant hurt! ScottB Quote Link to comment
+graldrich Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 I'm also a firefox user,so anything that helps with geocaching I'm also interested! Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 It would be great if it could respect the [brackets] for non-encrypted text. Quote Link to comment
+S&G.Davison Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Can the extension be written so that Mozilla can use it too ?? Firebird still has some authentication issues on https that need resolving before I can completly change to it G Quote Link to comment
+horsegeeks Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Go for it Firefox is great. I wish I was able to help but I'm not a programmer. Quote Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted October 5, 2004 Author Share Posted October 5, 2004 It would be great if it could respect the [brackets] for non-encrypted text. Ok. I'll be sure to take that into account as well. Can the extension be written so that Mozilla can use it too ?? Firebird still has some authentication issues on https that need resolving before I can completly change to it Yes. There is an easy way to make the extensions backwards compatible with pre0.9-Firefox and Mozilla and I plan on doing so. Quote Link to comment
+DomHeknows Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 add the capability for us uk users to take the coordinates, either from the webpage or from the selected text and then open up the www.streetmap.co.uk address for this location. ie for cache GCHFN4 it would need to go to http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?&sc...=600&height=600 on multimap or http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=37...-+Carmen+Geddit on streetmap (hope that make sense) or to put it more clearly, have http://benchmarks.org.uk/maplinks.htm work from the highlighted/copied text :-) Quote Link to comment
+as77 Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 (edited) never mind Edited October 6, 2004 by as77 Quote Link to comment
justinthornton Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 What I think would be great (not sure if it is possible) would be the ability to load a .loc file from the browser to the gps without saving on your hard drive and use other apps like easy gps to load them. That would cut out some steps and get me out to the cache faster. Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 What I think would be great (not sure if it is possible) would be the ability to load a .loc file from the browser to the gps without saving on your hard drive and use other apps like easy gps to load them. http://gpsbabel.org/tips/browser.html Quote Link to comment
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