Hello world
Posted by Will Kahn-Greene
This is a first post as I get used to the WordPress interface….
I’m a developer at Participatory Culture Foundation and I work full-time on Miro development. Currently I’m working on Mediabar which is a Firefox extension that discovers media on a web-page and allows you to send selected media to media applications like iTunes, Miro, VLC, ….
My plan is to post status-type posts on this blog as well as short essays on various development issues that I come across. This gives readers a window into my development progress so that things are more transparent.
I’m using Planet Mozilla as inspiration.
That about covers it. If you’re interested in other kinds of content, comment below and I’ll see what I can do.
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WordPress. Theme based on Simplism, but without bits I found irritating. I'm still toying with it.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:27 am
So… I read https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/vacuum and from what I understand this excludes all non-Frefox users from using what you’re currently working on.
Can’t some of this functionality be built in Miro itself once it gets a navigation bar with an URL field which I assume is in the pipes? Even just a simple button that would pass it to some other site which could provide much more limited functionality would be well appreciated by people like me.
Also what about Flock? Could their devs be interested in providing the functionality of this extension by default?
September 26th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Just to preface this comment, these thoughts are my own and don’t reflect any agreed upon project direction as far as I know.
I don’t think it makes sense to implement this in Miro directly. I wouldn’t want to use Miro as my primary browser, so it wouldn’t be connected with all the other things that kick off my browser when I click on links. This extension provides a bridge between things I’m seeing in my web browser and media-handling applications–not just Miro. Regardless of whether you use it in conjunction with Miro or not, it’ll be a useful extension for some people. I think there’s a lot of value here even though it won’t work for non-Firefox users.
Regarding implementing this in other applications, there’s no reason someone else can’t or shouldn’t implement this functionality in other browsers including Flock. It definitely makes accessing media items much easier.