{"id":52,"date":"2007-05-08T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2007\/05\/08\/the-firefox-mozex-plugin\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:56:14","slug":"the-firefox-mozex-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2007\/05\/08\/the-firefox-mozex-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Firefox Mozex plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As time passes more and more applications are web-based. The World Wide Web has switched from being a place where you basically see static data to a place where everything is interactive.<\/p>\n<p>Good examples of this are wikis and weblogs: two of the most remarkable kinds of applications that have appeared in recent years and can be used with nothing more than a web browser. Web applications are nice as they allow you to do the same job no matter where you are: at home, at work, at an internet cafe, at a friend&#8217;s house, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest problems of this is that a web browser is not really suited for all kinds of tasks. Example: a wiki is a great tool because you can edit a page very quickly, <em>but<\/em> the browser itself is a crappy editor. It lets you do very basic things besides moving around with the cursor keys, cutting and pasting text.<\/p>\n<p>A great solution for this problem is <a href=\"http:\/\/mozex.mozdev.org\/\">Mozex<\/a>, a Firefox extension that lets you use external programs for some of the actions that you normally do with the browser, including <em>the editing of text areas<\/em>. You just press a key combination and a text editor pops up with the text of the area that you have selected. Very easy to use.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of my browser editing the Wikipedia using my favourite text editor (click on the image):<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2007\/05\/mozext.jpg\" title=\"Mozext example\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2007\/05\/mozext.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Mozext example\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>A great tool. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll like it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time passes more and more applications are web-based. The World Wide Web has switched from being a place where you basically see static data to a place where everything is interactive. Good examples of this are wikis and weblogs: two of the most remarkable kinds of applications that have appeared in recent years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gpul","category-igalia","category-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}