ForrestBar questions

[Addi <ad...@rocktreesky.com>]

I was poking around the Forrest site looking at the tools section and
saw ForrestBar does not work with newer versions of Firefox.  Since I
have always been a little curious about how extensions work I figured I
would update it.  I have created a new extension that works in Firefox
1.0.x and the upcoming 1.5 releases.  Now I have two questions/issues:

1. The links currently on the website for "install" and "download" of
the current forrestbar do not work for me.  The javascript install link
[<link href="javascript:InstallTrigger.install( {'Forrestbar':
'forrestbar.xpi'} );">] just opens a new window with the word false on
it and the download link that references the .xpi file [<link
href="forrestbar.xpi">] just opens garbage on the screen and does not
download.  I was finally successful by right-clicking the download link,
doing Save As... and then either dragging the file for Mozilla or doing
Open File for Firefox.  I am rewriting the site-author page for
ForrestBar in light of the new versions but I am not sure how to supply
download links that actually work properly by clicking on them.  Of
course, I can write out the directions that I did but there must be a
better, more correct way.  Maybe it is something with the install.js
script in the xpi?  I dunno much about it, so any answers or ideas are
welcome.  Otherwise I will just keep researching.

2. I actually have 2 versions of the toolbar now - the original (in both
Moz and FF now, with bad links removed) and I also made a brand new
version for me that consolidated a lot of the Apache stuff, added more
Forrest stuff (Docs, JIRA, our mail list, our SVN), more reference
manuals (SVN, Cocoon) and made the search bar search within the dev mail
archive rather than just a generic google search (which I am already
lovin').  Should I put both the original and new up or just the new?

Any other feedback/concerns?

Addi

Re: ForrestBar questions

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

David Crossley wrote:

>>Any other feedback/concerns?
> 
> 
> Nope, just praise.

+1

Ross

Re: ForrestBar questions

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Addi wrote:
> I was poking around the Forrest site looking at the tools section and
> saw ForrestBar does not work with newer versions of Firefox.  Since I
> have always been a little curious about how extensions work I figured I
> would update it.  I have created a new extension that works in Firefox
> 1.0.x and the upcoming 1.5 releases.  Now I have two questions/issues:

Great stuff.

> 1. The links currently on the website for "install" and "download" of
> the current forrestbar do not work for me.

There is discussion in the mail archive (perhaps 12 months ago)
which might help.

Also one listed issue in the "Forrestbar" component:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180

>  The javascript install link
> [<link href="javascript:InstallTrigger.install( {'Forrestbar':
> 'forrestbar.xpi'} );">] just opens a new window with the word false on
> it and the download link that references the .xpi file [<link
> href="forrestbar.xpi">] just opens garbage on the screen and does not
> download.  I was finally successful by right-clicking the download link,
> doing Save As... and then either dragging the file for Mozilla or doing
> Open File for Firefox.  I am rewriting the site-author page for
> ForrestBar in light of the new versions but I am not sure how to supply
> download links that actually work properly by clicking on them.  Of
> course, I can write out the directions that I did but there must be a
> better, more correct way.  Maybe it is something with the install.js
> script in the xpi?  I dunno much about it, so any answers or ideas are
> welcome.  Otherwise I will just keep researching.

I don't know about the javascript installer sorry.
The "download" link probably expects people to know
to do Right-click=>Save As... etc. We should explicitly
say that.

Just add "fixme" notes to our tools/forrestbar.html
By assisting people to use it, someone will get
encouraged to fix it.

Perhaps the forrestbar.xpi on the website needs to regenerated.

The reference to Gump was so that people could get
an up-to-date version. However, the source was not
changing enough to warrant that. Also Gump doesn't
often get around to building our projects.

> 2. I actually have 2 versions of the toolbar now - the original (in both
> Moz and FF now, with bad links removed) and I also made a brand new
> version for me that consolidated a lot of the Apache stuff, added more
> Forrest stuff (Docs, JIRA, our mail list, our SVN), more reference
> manuals (SVN, Cocoon) and made the search bar search within the dev mail
> archive rather than just a generic google search (which I am already
> lovin').  Should I put both the original and new up or just the new?

Just the new. Can you send a patch to the existing trunk?
If not, then zip it all up, add to Jira, and someone will
figure it out.

> Any other feedback/concerns?

Nope, just praise.

-David