doIt Plugin

I've been thinking about developing Firefox and or Thunderbird plugins
to allow doIt's from these applications.

Here's how I want it to work:

   - I select some code in an email I am reading
   - I right click and chose print it
   - If multiple images are running, a pop-up allows you to chose
   - A workspace is opened in the image with the selection in it
   - In the workspace the selection is evaluated and printed
   - The result is also displayed in a window in the browser

This may seem a bit pointless, but the goal is to facilitate
interaction. Once this is working, features could include:

   - File in
   - Browse menus (e.g. implemenators / senders)
   - Do it, debug it, print it, time it, etc
   - ?

And, maybe going the other way (although these can probably be done now
using protocol handlers):

   - Email it
   - Search for it
     - Google
     - Squeak-Dev
     - Seaside-Dev

What do people think of this idea? Has something been done like this
before? Any suggestions how I do it? Anyone interested in working on this?

I haven't done any FF/TB plugin development before. I think it would be
pretty straight forward to provide a web service on the squeak side. Not
sure how best to do multiple image switching.

Thanks,
Zulq.

Hi!

Zulq Alam <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I've been thinking about developing Firefox and or Thunderbird plugins
> to allow doIt's from these applications.

In Gjallar we have a "do it" console in the web UI and we did a few
things to make it behave better in such a setup. For example, it adds
temporaries without asking (since we can't really ask) and deals with
compilation errors better etc. Don't have the details in my head but
there should be a bit of things to steal there.

Gjallar also has sample web services using SOAP, although I imagine you
could also just do a plain straight Socket clear text protocol.

regards, Göran

[hidden email] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Zulq Alam <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I've been thinking about developing Firefox and or Thunderbird plugins
>> to allow doIt's from these applications.
>
> In Gjallar we have a "do it" console in the web UI [snip]

Cool! Out of curiosity, what did you use it for?

Thanks,
Zulq.

Zulq Alam <[hidden email]> wrote:
Power administration. A BFG9000 kinda thing. Or "we are too lazy to
build admin UIs for everything so here ya go until we get around to do
that". :)

regards, Göran

On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:43 , Zulq Alam wrote:

> I've been thinking about developing Firefox and or Thunderbird  
> plugins to allow doIt's from these applications.
> What do people think of this idea? Has something been done like  
> this before?

John's Macintosh VM supports a system wide "do it". Select some  
expression in any application (mail, browser, whatever), and choose  
services - Squeak Do It from the menu.

- Bert -