More firefox toolbar exploration

I whipped up a really stupid toolbar last week that only works for mozilla. It’s just got some dedicated search box space that passes queries directly to php.net’s function reference.

It turned out to be so incredibly useful this past week that I feel compelled to make it work for firefox, too. I’m just waiting in a coffee shop right now on Lincon blvd. while my car gets worked on, so the next four hours are a prime target for making this happen.

Code Reference Toolbar Design:

  • Search boxes that DIRECTLY search within key code references
  • First get just php.net working, then add perl, mysql, postgresql, etc.
  • Configurable add / delete of boxes (future), url strings to build, and labels
Visited links re: firefox toolbars:

Vladmir Vukicevic’s Bug Rodeo - An interesting concept on its own, Vladmir is writing a toolbar that allows locally cached metadata re: a bugzilla store. Very interesting concept of using bugzilla’s xml interface to store local metadata about a remote resource. Followup with 0.1+ version

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