[Copyurlplus] increase the copyurlplus/firefox popularity by providing convenient posting to communities

[DZ]

Hi all,

I have been testing misc. JavaScript tricks to post easily to various CMS
communities I use. It basically works ok, but only in a manual way and does
not offer a convenient way to help others (especially non-tech users) in the
communities to be able to do the same. It would benefit the community the
easier it is for anyone to post quick references etc. during their surfing.

I think that a simple tool like CopyURL+ is the closest one can get to
actually both get the word around and achieve the real goal, to actually let
people be alble to implement it themselves, simply by clicking on an install
link.

So, here is what I think would be practical if CopyURL+ could offer:

A built-in way to add customizations to the CopyURL+ context menu into the
user.js file.
>From the options, it could be possible to shape a new "rule"/menu entry, and
then click to append it to the menu (actually update the user.js file).

Here is an example of what I currently use in my user.js toward a
Drupal.orgpowered CMS:

<code>
user_pref('copyurlplus.menus.2.label', 'Quote2drupalsite1'); user_pref('
copyurlplus.menus.2.copy', '[quote]%TITLE% <p>"%SEL%"</p>[/quote]<p><a
href="%URL%" target="_blank">Source: %TITLE%</a></p>');
</code>

That one gives the following output:
- the [quote] tag triggers the quote module on the actual site to format the
information with special heading, background color and indentation.
- the information appears as:  Page title, new line, Selected text, new
line, URL/link appearing as "Source: %page_title%".

Very convenient for any user.

I am sure this will both help trigger activity (and hence popularity) of the
community it is used towards, and also obviously make CopyURL+ and Firefox
even more popular.

What do you guys think?

(Ref. http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/customize.html )
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