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My first plug-in for firefox: Twitter Right-To-Left
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Date Added:
Thursday 24-02-2011
In the last couple of weeks I was busy reading about how to create a plug-in for Firefox. My intention was to create a plug-in that manipulates pages in a certain way to improve their look or add extra functionality. Then I came across Greasemonkey plug-in.
Greasemonkey plug-in allows you to write a JavaScript file and load it into the plug-in. The script file is specific to a certain website and adds modifications or improves the feel and look of that website.
So I started writing my plug-in for Firefox. Twitter is on the most popular social websites. Its users are from all over the world; however it provides limited user interface languages. The list provided does not include Arabic neither any Right-To-Left languages such Persian and Hebrew. My idea was to design the plug-in so I can modify the interface of twitter to shift the page direction from Left-To-Right to Right-To-Left and translates twitter page into Arabic.
Look at this example:
I finished the script but I did not like the idea of adding a file to the Greasemonkey plug-in since it is a hassle enough for the End-user to add a plug-in to the browser and set its configurations. Luckily I came across Greasemonkey compiler. The complier takes the "user script" (Greasemonkey term for the JS file) and converts it into a Firefox plug-in and Voila the plug-in is ready for Firefox.
You can download it through this link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitterrtl/
The plug-in is compatible with Firefox versions: 3.0 to 4 beta.
Note: I am interested in translations into Persian and Hebrew so if you are capable of that please contact me on: info@diy-cms.com
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http://twitter.com/khr2003
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