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g4jc edited this page Jul 10, 2014 · 1 revision

Seeks Firefox extension

Notification box

When you open a page, the extension checks whether or not this page has been returned as a result by a Seeks node during your searches. If yes, a notification box appears, listing the keywords and the Seeks nodes associated to this page, you can then rank it up or down (thumbs buttons) and modify the keywords accordingly. Notification box

To do

  • Parse JSON(P) results sent by the Seeks nodes:
    • Actually the parsing is only performed on Seeks' compact HTML UI, but might work with the older UI.
    • JSON must be intercepted earlier, way more tedious: http://www.ashita.org/howto-xhr-listening-by-a-firefox-addon/
  • Forget a page once the notification box has been closed:
    • Have to capture the "close" event, doesn't seem to work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5231368/firefox-notificationbox-onclose
  • Handle redirects.
  • When a page has been identified as a Seeks result, trace the pages clicked from it as well.
  • Signing for updates: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extension_Versioning,_Update_and_Compatibility
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