[Maf] MAF 0.3.0

[Frank Thomas]

Christopher,
Thanks for your rapid answer. I did nor see the warning that it is for 
Moz 1.7 upwards. But I am hesitant to change a running system and 
update, if it is only for the time to re-install every extension, etc. I 
understand that you dont want to invest time to make your extension work 
with older browser versions.

Regards,
Frank


Christopher Ottley wrote:

> Frank Thomas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I stumbled on your interesting extension, installed it at once, and 
>> have a number of remaining questions.  I work with Moz 1.6 under Win 
>> XP¨SP1..
>
>
>
> Hey Frank, MAF 0.3.0 is only tested and works with Mozilla 1.7 and 
> above. Firefox 0.9 and above if you're installing it on Firefox. If 
> you want MAF to work you need at least Mozilla 1.7 installed. The API 
> for performing certain actions changes frequently and trying to 
> support lower versions makes it that much more work for me to 
> maintain, so I cut off at the 1.7 API.
>
>> Questions on saving:
>> I saved a page, with no tabs.  When entering a name, do you have to 
>> write the extension, too? I found no help explaining if this is 
>> necessary.
>> Is there an information about the successful saving?
>
>
>
> If you don't specify an extension, it's appended automatically, 
> otherwise your filename is used as typed. When you save a single page, 
> an alert saying that the archive operation is complete should show up.
>
>> When opening Tools > MAF > browse open archives: there are no entries.
>
>
>
> Unless you open an archive it wouldn't be listed in the browse open 
> archives dialog. You must explicitly open it with the File -> Open 
> Archive or File -> Open File and select the archive.
>
>> Questions on presenting your good work:
>> Why is the preference setting put into the tools menu, and not put 
>> where the other extensions are located? It's under Preferences where 
>> a standard user as I am one would look when searching for preferences.
>
>
>
> I'm supporting both Mozilla and Firefox with MAF. The preferences GUI 
> is different in each and rather than spend time trying to integrate 
> deeply into each GUI, I went with the lowest common feature. 
> Eventually, once I consider MAF feature complete, I'd worry about 
> improving the GUI hooks.
>
>> Why is the extension hidden as a download tool?? I found it because 
>> of a link by Ed Mullen on the Mozilla newsgroup. But I would have 
>> NEVER looked for it in the download tools when I search a save page 
>> facility. I think you unserve your  proper work in putting it in that 
>> category. Maybe you could announce it at update.mozilla.org under 
>> different entries? At least a hint should be given to the non-initiated.
>
>
>
> I agree with you on this. In fact I had trouble finding it myself 
> after I posted it to update.mozilla.org. The main problem is that the 
> update.mozilla.org isn't easily searchable. Links to the MAF website 
> appear in relevant google searches, bugzilla entries and even in the 
> mozillazine (at least I think it's them) FAQ. It's not as hidden as 
> you might think. I honestly can't think of a better category than 
> Download tools though. There is no Save Page Tools category. Heh.
>
>> Questions on documentation :
>> I liked the screeshots and the preferences page. They give some hints 
>> of how to do things. And clearly separate explicatioins for Linux 
>> from those for Windows users. The best whould be to write a HowTo for 
>> Dummies for the activities you want to do most often: archive, and 
>> look at the pages, maybe export them? 99% of users are not 
>> developers. What you might seem evident is not evident for ordinary 
>> users.
>
>
>
> Hmmm. Don't know what to say here. I don't know what would be in the 
> HowTo... Go to web page, select File -> Save page in archive, type in 
> a name and press enter. To open select File -> Open Archive and select 
> the archive to open. I think any problems you may have getting MAF to 
> work stems from the fact you're using an unsupported version of Mozilla.
>
> As a side note to everyone, normally around this time I would have 
> available for download, a point point release of MAF (it would have 
> been 0.3.1), but Firefox RC1 is going to be out soon and I'm waiting 
> for it before I release another version. Other than making the default 
> extension *.maff when saving, if anyone has any feature requests, give 
> me a buzz and I'll stick them on the queue.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher.
>
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Dr. Frank Thomas
FTR Internet Research
Rosny, France