Webchunks on any web site, screenshots
By glazou on Monday 8 September 2008, 10:04 - Mozilla - Permalink
People, I'm excited. Seriously. I spent only two hours and half on it yesterday night and here's the result.
- screenshot 1 visit a web site, here the San Jose Mercury News' home page
- screenshot 2 decide you want to subscribe to the main headline but hey the site is not Webchunks-/Webslices- enabled. No problem, just select with your mouse the block you want to subscribe to...
- screenshot 3 as usual you can modify the webchunk's title and hop! the entry appears in your toolbar
- screenshot 4 OOOH IT'S MAGIC, the webchunks's popup worked fine, the SJMN's web site still has no Webslice builtin and XPath is still a proof of existence of the devil !
The best part of it is the following one : Webchunks does not need Greasemonkey any more for that and it's so easy to subscribe to any part of any web page that even the sales director of your company could do it !!!
Oh wait, I think I forgot one small detail : IE8 is unable to do that for the time being 
Can someone bring Ballmer a few more chairs please ?
Comments
_AMAZING_ work,
Will try it asap!
Excellent! How do you permanently identify the fragment? For example, it might currently be the first div element in the page, but tomorrow the same content is in the second div element. You could use the id of the div element, but that won't always exist.
Looks really awesome. When do you plan to release this? I can't wait to try it.
Reminds me of this excellent widget: http://fr.eco.netvibes.com/widgets/...
(presentation: http://dev.netvibes.com/blog/2008/0... )
Does it work the same?
Great work man and again one more reason not to use IE:)
Really awesome! Release soon, release often, please!
Génial! Bravo Daniel.
I thought it would be something like this. Fireclip has similar capabilities (except it uses a sidebar and a dedicated tab instead of a toolbar with dropdowns).
Reminds me Safari widget functionnality. Every widget goes in Dashboard instead of a toolbar but the selection is as easy.