From daryle at micralyne.com  Tue Jul 15 12:16:35 2008
From: daryle at micralyne.com (Daryle Tilroe)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:16:35 -0600
Subject: [Locallink] Anyone out there considering enhancing this addon?
Message-ID: <487CF793.4050303@micralyne.com>

It would really be nice if locallink could be extended to address most
of the issues when left clicking.  I guess what I don't know is if it
is even possible for the locallink addon to intercept a standard left
click on a file link and pop up a dialog.  Ideally if that is possible
then a user could select from the fairly standard options of "Open link
to local file from site [www.example.com]: No, Never, Once, Always".
This would really be boon to using FF in a corporate environment with
intranets and wikis and tons of file links.

In the mean time the current form of locallink is greatly appreicated!
It, combined with the prefs.js edits for exceptions, are at least a
tolerable workaround.  Thanks!

PS.  I did read in the archives that sometime back the author was not
      considering significant changes.  I was hoping that, barring a
      change of heart, someone else skilled in addon coding might be
      able to extend the functionality.

From locallink-owner at mozdev.org  Fri Jul 18 08:52:53 2008
From: locallink-owner at mozdev.org (Michael J Gruber)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:52:53 +0200
Subject: [Locallink] Anyone out there considering enhancing this addon?
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Message-ID: <4880BC55.1030901@mozdev.org>

Daryle Tilroe venit, vidit, dixit 15.07.2008 21:16:
> It would really be nice if locallink could be extended to address most
> of the issues when left clicking.  I guess what I don't know is if it
> is even possible for the locallink addon to intercept a standard left
> click on a file link and pop up a dialog.  Ideally if that is possible
> then a user could select from the fairly standard options of "Open link
> to local file from site [www.example.com]: No, Never, Once, Always".
> This would really be boon to using FF in a corporate environment with
> intranets and wikis and tons of file links.
> 
> In the mean time the current form of locallink is greatly appreicated!
> It, combined with the prefs.js edits for exceptions, are at least a
> tolerable workaround.  Thanks!
> 
> PS.  I did read in the archives that sometime back the author was not
>       considering significant changes.  I was hoping that, barring a
>       change of heart, someone else skilled in addon coding might be
>       able to extend the functionality.

Besides notorious lack of time, there's actually two reasons (for me) 
not to do it that way:

- security
- concept

If I (or anyone else) get's this wrong it opens a really huge security hole.

On the other hand, there are things like noscript which is basically a 
frontend for the capability manager, for specific capabilities. 
Conceptually one should extend this in order define zones with specific 
permissions: open local links, use javascript, use plugins, store 
cookies, ....

I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you. At least I'm keeping LL 
up-to-date, even though I don't have any need for it personally. :)

Cheers,
Michael