Hi,
We at InfyLUG, the Infosys[1] Linux User Group have been working on a
Firefox extension called LiveURLs [2] which lets users create links to
specific content on web pages. The concept is based on a technical
whitepaper[3] on web technologies published by InfyLUG and which will
be presented as a poster[4] at the 15th World Wide Web Conference[5]
in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Some benefits of LiveURL's:
* Sharing selected content on web pages is just a right click away.
* Peer - Peer Sharing - no centralized entity required.
* Usable in the same manner as existing URLs.
* Browsers which do not support LiveURLs still show the whole page.
The code and technology[6] is still in a POC stage with the
implementation-standard details not finalized. The source code,
licensed under the GPL, can be picked up from CVS [7]. We welcome
suggestions, brickbats, praise and most importantly bug reports [8].
Please join the liveurls mailing list [9] for discussion on further
development of this extension.
We hope to garner support for this concept and to see it as a default
feature in all browsers.
[1] http://www.infosys.com
[2] http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2400/
[3] http://www.infosys.com/technology/live-urls.pdf
[4] http://www2006.org/programme/paper.php?id=p156
[5] http://www.www2006.org
[6] http://liveurls.mozdev.org/tech.html
[7] http://liveurls.mozdev.org/source.html
[8] http://liveurls.mozdev.org/bugs.html
[9] http://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/liveurls
More coverage:
http://knutties.livejournal.com/24270.html ;(The full story)
http://www.infosys.com/events/international-www-conference.asp
Thanks,
Natarajan Kannan & Toufeeq Hussain,
InfyLUG, Infosys Linux Users Group,
www.infosys.com
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blog @ http://toufeeq.blogspot.com
