[Greasemonkey] GM + Microsummaries in FF2

[esquifit]

Thanks for filing the bug, it'll be great if it gets fixed!
e.

2006/7/24, Joe la Poutre <jsixpack at gmail.com>:
>
> A small update on my previous mail.
>
> 1. Despite my earlier findings, loading a uSummary generator from a
> file:// URL *does* work correctly, based on some more tests.
>
> 2. I mailed with Myk Melez about this, who suggested to open a bug on
> the uSummaries product. See
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345716
> (addMicrosummaryGenerator with data: URL not working)
>
>
>
> On 7/23/06, Joe la Poutre <jsixpack at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi esquifit,
> >
> > Wow, a really cool idea to make the generated microsummaries generator
> > "auto install" - I was thinking that you needed a real XPI type
> > extension for that, complete with browser/chrome privileges (in order
> > to write files locally, and register with Firefox somehow).
> >
> > I have no idea why your approach failed, but I have been unsuccessful
> > with a test, where I loaded a html file from a local disk (and so
> > tried installing a microsummary from a file:// url - it silently
> > failed). I haven't looked any further into this, though...
> >
> > Still, it would be really cool if this would work from Greasemonkey!
> >
> > On 7/22/06, esquifit <esquifit at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been playing around with GM 0.6.4 + ff2.0b1 (WinXP Home Ed).
> [1]   I
> > > came up with the idea of writing a GM script for generating and adding
> > > microsummaries [2] to arbitrary pages, but then I found Johannes la
> Poutré's
> > > script [3] which saved me a couple of hours :).  In this script, the
> > > microsummary xml is being written into a new tab; then it has to be
> > > downloaded to a local file into the microsummary-generators
> subdirectory of
> > > your profile folder, and restart FF.
> > >
> > > However, the Microsummary API already provides for an install
> mechanism,
> > > namely the
> > > "window.sidebar.addMicrosummaryGenerator(microsummary_url)" function
> [4].
> > > So I just replaced GM_openInTab by this function.  I then executed the
> > > script and I got the confirmation popup of FF asking me if I wanted to
> > > install the microsummary; I accepted but then nothing happened.
> > >
> > > Then I realised that, according to [2], the correct content type was
> not
> > > "text/plain" but "application/x.microsummary+xml", so I changed the
> "data:"
> > > url accordingly. It still didn't work.  Then I tried removing the
> > > "charset=UTF-8" parameter of the content type, with the same
> result.  In the
> > > error console I got three times the following message:
> > >
> > > Error: [Exception... "'<error>' when calling method:
> > > [nsIMicrosummaryService::addGenerator]"  nsresult: "0x805303f4
> (<unknown>)"
> > > location: "JS frame :: file:///<my FF2 installation
> > > directory>/components/nsSidebar.js :: anonymous :: line 301"  data:
> no]
> > > Fitxer font: file:///<my FF2 installation
> directory>/components/nsSidebar.js
> > > Línia: 301
> > >
> > > I also turned on the debug flag in nsSidebar.js, but anyting else is
> being
> > > output neither to the console nor to the terminal window from which I
> > > started FF2, apart from the above message.
> > >
> > > Any hints?
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > > e.
> > >
> > > [1] For instructions on installing GM on FF2.0b1 see
> > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Greasemonkey/gm_for_ff20beta.html
> > > Also note the to install a script you will have to load it in FF and
> install
> > > *from the Tools menu*; the usual install bar on top of the page is not
> > > working at the moment.
> > > [2] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries
> > > [3] http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/Microsummaries/
> > > [4] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_a_Microsummary
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