Mike’s Musings

Comment from Gabriel
Date: March 7, 2008, 3:33 pm

Thanks!

One bug: Doesn’t seem to work if you select a link (such as SXSW).

Comment from mkaply
Date: March 7, 2008, 3:43 pm

Can you define “doesn’t work”

If you mean you don’t get any actions, that’s possible.

Activities are specified to work with a certain context (link, selection, document) so if you don’t have any actions installed that work with links, you won’t get any actions.

Comment from Gustavo
Date: March 7, 2008, 5:59 pm

Thank you. This version works perfectly in my 3.0b2 version!!!

But… Where is suposed to be shown the preview?

Comment from mkaply
Date: March 7, 2008, 6:10 pm

The way the preview works is that some things show a little window when you hover over the link. The maps are a good example.

Comment from Pau Tomàs
Date: March 7, 2008, 7:18 pm

Preview seems to not be working for me (Latest Nightly on Leopard). Nothing appears when I keep the mouse over the activity menu item.

Comment from mkaply
Date: March 7, 2008, 8:40 pm

@Pau: FF2 or FF3?

Comment from Gabriel
Date: March 7, 2008, 8:54 pm

Oh ok. I only had the encarta and msnbc activities installed and when I selected a link and right clicked, none of them showed up. I guess those scripts aren’t meant to work with link selections. Odd.

Comment from Pau Tomàs
Date: March 8, 2008, 5:38 am

@mike FF3… well, Minefield 3.0b5pre

Comment from Damian
Date: March 8, 2008, 10:48 am

Hey, nice work, so you know I’ve made a bug about natively supporting Microsoft Activities:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421218

I don’t know where this wanted or not, but I thought it best there be a bug there so that there’s something to refer to if people want it later down the road. Feel free to edit it to your hearts content if you feel something needs changing.

Comment from Dan
Date: March 8, 2008, 10:31 pm

Thanks for trying to fix the security error I was having but it still doesn’t work.

Security Error: Content at javascript:window.external.addService(’OSDFiles/StumbleUpon%20find.xml’); may not load data from http://ie.microsoft.com/activities/en-en/default.aspx.

This pops up in the error console whenever I try to add a service.

Comment from Dan
Date: March 8, 2008, 10:32 pm

Hopefully FF3b4 will be out in a day or two, that should make everything work nicely.

Comment from Dan
Date: March 10, 2008, 8:42 pm

I just installed 3b4 and tried out installing activities again, still getting the same error. I’m gonna see if maybe it’s conflicting with something in my profile.

Comment from Dan
Date: March 10, 2008, 9:03 pm

I figured out what the problem was… it seems to be some sort of conflict with the latest version of the ScribeFire extension (with the compatibility and security checks in Firefox 3b4 disabled, of course… it worked fine in b3 although seems slightly broken now in b4). Maybe you could take a look at it to see why this is happening?

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Date: March 10, 2008, 9:18 pm

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Date: March 11, 2008, 8:07 am

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Comment from mkaply
Date: March 11, 2008, 10:59 am

The ScribeFire problem is interesting. Somehow their component registration is interfering with mine, but for me, it’s only the first time. If I restart the browser i work.

Going to take some investigation…

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Date: March 11, 2008, 11:32 am

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Date: March 11, 2008, 3:27 pm

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Comment from Jeff Garner
Date: March 11, 2008, 3:27 pm

You mentioned porting operator to other browsers. Will you be porting it to safari any time soon? I’ll probably be just as easy as firefox since safari is also open source.

Comment from Jocko
Date: March 11, 2008, 4:12 pm

Using the translation just brings me to the translation page without having my text I selected with me. I have to copy the text then go to the translation activity and paste the info in manually. FF 2.0.0.2…

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Date: March 11, 2008, 5:51 pm

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Comment from Kevin Dente
Date: March 11, 2008, 6:54 pm

Awesome. I knew it wouldn’t be long before the FF community provided this.

However, preview doesn’t seem to work for me on FF3.0b4. Nothing appears on hover.

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Date: March 11, 2008, 8:03 pm

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Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 11, 2008, 8:24 pm

The preview is not working. I hovered over map with live maps, nothing happened. What should I do?

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Date: March 11, 2008, 8:56 pm

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Comment from mkaply
Date: March 11, 2008, 8:57 pm

I’m really confused. Preview is working for me on beta 4.

Can you turn on

javascript.options.showInConsole

in about:config and see if there is an error?

Maybe an extension is conflicting?

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Date: March 11, 2008, 10:07 pm

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Date: March 11, 2008, 10:23 pm

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Date: March 12, 2008, 12:24 am

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Date: March 12, 2008, 2:07 am

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Date: March 12, 2008, 5:20 am

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Date: March 12, 2008, 5:26 am

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Date: March 12, 2008, 6:54 am

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Comment from Comment
Date: March 12, 2008, 7:26 am

amazing work!!

please urlencode the selected text.
or add “.replace(/[\r\n]+/g, “%0A”);” to line 307 in activities.js (adresses often contains line breaks!)

THANK YOU

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Date: March 12, 2008, 8:08 am

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Date: March 12, 2008, 9:13 am

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Date: March 12, 2008, 10:34 am

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Comment from Kevin Dente
Date: March 12, 2008, 1:18 pm

No luck. Didn’t see any errors in the console. And I tried on a profile with no other extensions installed, and it still didn’t work.

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Date: March 12, 2008, 1:44 pm

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Comment from Product Support
Date: March 12, 2008, 2:26 pm

How do you remove activities that you have added?

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Date: March 12, 2008, 2:53 pm

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Date: March 12, 2008, 5:00 pm

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Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 13, 2008, 2:13 am

@ mkaply I don’t know, but some others are also experiencing the same problem problem. Please find the solution soon.
THANKS

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Comment from Matthias
Date: March 13, 2008, 8:01 am

Cool!

Please post this on AMO (https://addons.mozilla.org).

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Date: March 13, 2008, 8:12 am

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Date: March 13, 2008, 9:10 am

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Comment from mkaply
Date: March 13, 2008, 10:02 am

For the folks having trouble with Preview.

1. You must be using FF3 Beta 3 or later.

2. Please put this URL: chrome://activities/content/preview.xul in the browser and tell me the results you get.

3. Please post browser version and platform.

For folks having trouble installing the activities. Unfortunately this is a FF bug. The actions should be installable on the second invocation of the browser.

The next version will only work on FF3 Beta 4 and will have a fix for this problem.

Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 13, 2008, 8:35 pm

I got a blank page when I tried it..so what is wrong? and I want to make a few suggestions — please put a activities button which hovers over the selected text (as in IE8). An option to select default providers–ex. I’ve got map with live maps, map with yahoo maps….so I should be able to select the default amongst them and the default should appear in activities button. and how do we delete a activity?
I hope you’ll implement it.
THANKS

Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 13, 2008, 8:37 pm

I got a blank page when I tried it..so what is wrong? My browser version is FF3 Beta 4 and platform is Windows XP service pack 2. and I want to make a few suggestions — please put a activities button which hovers over the selected text (as in IE8). An option to select default providers–ex. I’ve got map with live maps, map with yahoo maps….so I should be able to select the default amongst them and the default should appear in activities button. and how do we delete a activity?
I hope you’ll implement it.
THANKS

Comment from mkaply
Date: March 13, 2008, 10:00 pm

OK, so basically the problem with preview is that a setting in chrome.manifest is not working properly.

You can fix it by going into your profile/extensions/activities@kaply.com directory.

Edit the file chrome.manifest.

Change

overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://activities/content/preview.xul appversion>=3.0

to

overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://activities/content/preview.xul

I’ll have something fixed in the new version.

Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 14, 2008, 3:08 am

How will I edit chrome.manifest file? windows can’t open it.

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Comment from Xsever
Date: March 14, 2008, 7:50 am

Room for improvement:

Any one knows how to make the activity launch in a new tab instead of launching in the same tab?

When u highlight the word and pick an activity u’ll be redirected in the same page. So is there a way u can force the activity to open in a new tab?

Thanks,

Comment from mkaply
Date: March 14, 2008, 12:02 pm

@Xsever:

Sure. I follow the shortcuts in firefox to do this. You can:

Hold down Ctrl while clicking to open in a new tab
Hold down Ctrl+Shift while clicking to open in a new tab in the background
Hold down Shift when clicking to open in a new window
Click with the middle mouse button to open in a new tab

Comment from Xsever
Date: March 14, 2008, 12:25 pm

@mkaply

Thanks a lot for the shortcuts. that was a bullseye, but the middle mouse one did not work but that’s fine. Holding Ctrl is no big deal at all.

Thanks again,

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Date: March 15, 2008, 9:57 am

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Comment from Jan
Date: March 16, 2008, 3:30 pm

I have develop a Activity for the Serendipity Blog. You can copy text to your blog. But the Activity doesn’t work in Firefox. It works only with the Internet Explorer 8.

Is it a bug?

Here you can find the Activity:
http://www.xp-dev.de/index.php?archives/33-English.html&serendipitylang_selected=en

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Date: March 16, 2008, 7:01 pm

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Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 16, 2008, 9:33 pm

How will I edit chrome.manifest file? windows can’t open it.

Comment from mkaply
Date: March 16, 2008, 11:33 pm

@vinitneo (and everyone else)

I’ll have a new version out on Wed that should solve all these issues.

It will more closely emulate IE (with default actions), as well as fixing the various install issues and the preview issues.

Comment from vinitneo
Date: March 17, 2008, 3:09 am

Thank you very much… I just can’t just wait to get my hands on it.

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