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The Battle Continues

So the battle to create a Gecko extension continues. I’m actually making progress and feel like I have all the necessary pieces now. I can:

  • add an icon to the toolbar and respond to clicks
  • add text and images to the status bar
  • catch navigation events
  • extract RDF from web pages
  • parse the extracted RDF into a series of Triples (thanks to Jim Ley’s excellent all-javascript RDF parser)

So all that’s left to do is perform some queries on the RDF (which the parser also allows) and put the pieces together. Of course, I also need to figure out how to hack enough XUL together to make a dialog, but hey; how hard can it be?