powerswitch / cts-urn-firefox

Firefox AddOn to create links from crs:urn: references

cts-urn-firefox

cts-urn-firefox is a Firefox AddOn, which automatically creates links from Canonical Text Services references (cts:urn:).

To learn about CTS-URNs see http://www.homermultitext.org/hmt-doc/cite/cts-urn-overview.html or http://cts-demo.appspot.com/demo/examples

BUILD

• Download the Mozilla SDK (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/jetpack-sdk-latest.zip)
• Follow the instructions (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/Installation)
• activate SDK ($ source bin/activate)
• change to the cts-src dir
• run "cfx run" to test add on

INSTALL

• create the xpi package "cfx xpi"
• just install the xpi package

USAGE

You need to name a server which provides Canonical Text Services (http://www.homermultitext.org/hmt-docs/specifications/cts/). The first AddOn setting "CTSServer" wants a "http://[cts-server]?request=GetCapabilities" link. The second AddOn setting "CTSFrontend" holds a link with a placeholder to be called when a cts:urn: is clicked. This could be of course the same server as in the first setting with i.e. "http://[cts-server]?request=GetFirstUrn&urn=@urn@". Or it could be a fancy graphical cts urn server, who knows This third setting defines a time interval to update the local cts list using the first link. If you change the first link you'll probaly update it immediatly by using the "refresh now" button

QUESTIONS

Q: Where do I find a CTS Server? A: Honestly - I don't know

Q: The AddOn is messing up every web page A: If requested, I could add a whitelist to enable the plugin

Q: The AddOn took pictures of my cat and posted it on my social profile A: That's not a question