Op do 15-01-2004, om 21:41 schreef Jimmy Wales:
(b) there seems to be no open source toolbar project out there.
For Mozilla (and at least some derivatives), it is possible to create a toolbar using only, what, xml? Some crazy thing about skins, blah blah blah. I seem to recall that this is what took Mozilla so long to develop.
It took so long because Mozilla never was just a browser, but a whole application development framework.
There are a lot of functions that will never be integrated in a main browser because they are too domain specific:
Here are some scientific toolbars:
http://msdbar.mozdev.org/ MSDbar is a Mozilla/Netscape toolbar application for searching the MSD and other macromolecular structure resources.
http://expasybar.mozdev.org/ ExPASyBar project. It is for all people who are interested in biochemistry. With ExPASyBar you can have simple access to the main ExPASy databases.
http://pubmed.mozdev.org/ The PubMed Toolbar increases your ability to search information in NLM Medline database trough PubMed interface.
Other toolbar project at Mozdev:
http://stumbleupon.mozdev.org/ StumbleUpon is a mozilla toolbar which acts as an intelligent browsing tool for discovering and sharing great web sites with other people.
http://companion.mozdev.org/ The idea of this project is to build the popular Yahoo! Companion for Gecko-based browsers such as the Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firebird or Netscape.
http://gimli.mozdev.org/ The project gimli is born with the purpose of creating for mozilla the greater amount of toolbars like yahoo companion, of googlebar, and another.
Seeing all these makes it rather strange that no one came up with the idea earlier.
Wouter Vanden Hove www.opencursus.org www.open-education.org