| TestGen4Web - Firefox record and play back |
[Jul. 1st, 2006|11:42 pm] |
TestGen4WebTestGen4Web is tool to record/replay user actions in Firefox. It includes a recorder and a translator. The recorder lets you record and replay Firefox events from within Firefox. The steps/actions/events performed on the HTML page (not on the Firefox XUL elements) are saved in a XML formatted file which can edited, reloaded and replayed. Though events on only the current tab can currently be recorded, I think the developers should soon be extending it to work across tabs/windows. The translator converts the recording into scripts which can be used from the command line to test websites in an automated fashion. This is nice stuff from Spikesource. ( ★★★★☆) Review by Natarajan Kannan, July 2006 I made this post in a hreview format. We need better user interfaces to write microformatted documents. |
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| Web-Marker - Mark web pages and tell the world about it |
[Jun. 11th, 2006|10:32 pm] |
Thanks to all who responded to my LiveURLs love post. We've decided not to worry about the name of the URLs. They will remain LiveURLs. We are coming out with the first application based on LiveURLs. It is called Web-Marker, your marker pen for the web. Thanks a ton ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mewpsych for the name. We owe you a treat. Toufeeq has a post on it here.
So what does Web-Marker let you do?
- You can mark portions of a document (when you mark, you get to see the markings)
- Multiple non-contiguous marks are supported. This was the first feature that everyone requested when we released LiveURLs. More markings mean longer LiveURLs (we are working to shorten it :))
- You can bookmark the marked document or copy the link to the marked document to the clipboard.
- You can navigate between marks on a page.
- You can clear all/individual marks from a document.
Web-Marker was first demo-ed at the www2006. It was received very well and we got some really good suggestions and use cases. More on that in another post.
Web-Marker was approved by Firefox addons today and is available here. Play around with it and leave your suggestions as comments at Web-Marker's homepage. You could also leave your rating of the extension at the site. It helps in evaluating the extension and is a good source of feedback for us. Also report any bugs you find at the mozdev bugs page.
Few caveats
- It does not support URLs generated with the LiveURLs extension.
- You would have to uninstall the LiveURLs extension for Web-Marker to work.
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| Love for LiveURLs |
[Apr. 24th, 2006|09:50 pm] |
LiveURLs opened to a very, very lukewarm response last week. We got a lot of good feedback. toufeeq has summarized the feedback. As he mentions, the biggest lesson we learnt from the release was that, a product is as effective as its marketing. But first things first, we need a name for the project to strike a chord with the users. LiveURLs just does not make the cut. People do not have the time to read the project description to find out what the extension does.
The only requirement is that the name should convey what the extension lets the user do i.e. generate links to user selected portions of webpages. Listed below are a few suggestions (in no particular order) that we have received over the weekend:
- web-marker (mewpsych - this one is a very very apt suggestion. Thanks a ton :))
- zillaurls
- snippet
- snip'it (surprisingly mahendra and mewpsych suggested the same name)
- fraglet
- frag-meant - (the fragment that I meant!!!! Rajesh Balakrishnan's (RB) play with words rocks)
- frag-mark - It also has the in-built "Agmark" stamp of approval ;-) Another gem from RB.
- pagelet
- snipurl
- selection-url (via Nitin. Thanks buddy. Nice straight-forward one)
- fragment-links
- snippet-links
- urlhere (by nearfar)
- linkhere (based on nearfar's suggestion :))
- linkit
- linkthis
- herelinks (again based on nearfar's 'here' suggestion :))
- By bhuvanbk
- By rfc9000
- By anonymous
- By thanix
- By Shanmugavel Mani
- URL it!
- CustomURL
- CustomizedURL
- MyURL
- Make[My|Ur]URL
- Define[Your|My]URL
- RenderURL
- GenerateURL
The above list will be updated with suggestions in the comments. Preference would be given to names which try to capture both the fragment and link semantics. We owe the best name a treat. |
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| LiveURLs - my best hack till date |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|05:40 pm] |
Have you ever wanted to share a portion of a web page with others? We've made it easier for you. Toufeeq and I have been working on this Firefox extension project for sometime and now it is out for everyone to try and put to use.
The extension page at Firefox addons
The extension page at Mozdev
Screenshots
( LiveURLs - Behind the scenes )
The impatient ones please
- Install the Firefox extension from here.
- Select a portion of a web page and invoke the context menu (i.e. right click menu)
- Select either "Copy link to selected content" or "Copy position of selected content". This action copies the selected content as a URL to the clipboard.
- Open the LiveURL in a different tab/window of Firefox which has the same version of the LiveURLs extension installed.
- The browser should show the previously selected content highlighted. (If it does not work, report the bug with the LiveURL that did not work)
Note:
The sender and receiver of the LiveURL should have the same version of the LiveURL extension installed. Though fully functional, this is in its early stage of development. So backward compatibility of LiveURLs might not be supported i.e. there is no guarantee that LiveURLs generated with one version of the extension will work with another version.
This is one hack that I will be proud of, all my life. I hope you find it useful. |
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