Kaizou Blog

A new version of the Kaizou Firefox Extension is now available on kaizou.mozdev.org.

It supports the two new Kaizou actions : inner-html and insert-node (see previous post).

I added two new actions to Kaizou:

- the inner-html action allows you to modify the html code inside the node targeted by a transformation. It takes only one parameter: the inner HTML.
- the insert-node action allows you to insert an HTML node before or after the node targeted by a transformation. Its parameters are the node name and the inner HTML,

I submitted my extension back in january, and had started thinking it would never be reviewed and accepted, so it was quite a surprise to me to discover today that the Kaizou Firefox Extension had been officially accepted.

The first consequence seems to be a burst of hits on kaizou.org … just the day I discover a bug on the server kaizou link advertized on front page !

Now, for those interested in Kaizou, I suggest you rather use the Kaizou extension in its mozdev flavor, that is always the first to be updated, mainly because it doesn’t need to be approved by the mozilla pepople first (for instance today it’s V0.4.1 on addons.mozilla.org, but V0.4.4 on kaizou.mozdev.org).

Crap ! The Kaizou server processing doesn’t cope well with the script that changes the google logo … as a consequence the server processing of kaizou files targeted at google.com is broken today. This bug is now on top of my todo list, despite the fact that tomorrow it won’t be an issue anymore until the next custom logo shows up …

Update (later in the evening): Bug fixed !

I have added an automatic extension detection code: it replaces server-side kaizou links (klinks) by client-side klinks when the Kaizou Firefox extension is detected.

For those interested, I used the image-load trick first described by RSnake on ha.ckers.org.

I moved today the Kaizou specifications pages from the main site to this blog. I had really hard times inserting XML code snippets in the WordPress posts … maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to move the specs … Anyway it will be much simpler for me to edit them when changes occur.

I added today SNAP previews to the kaizou.org site, and I am really happy with the result : the guys at SNAP have done an incredible job !

First, it is really a snap to set it up (ok, lame joke …): you only need to add a little script to your headers, and voila !

Second, it works immediately for external links : you don’t need any caching process to occurr or something …

Third, it also works on Kaizou links ! I was a bit afraid at first that the links to the Kaizou transformations would display the original, unmodified page, but the SNAP preview seems to mimic perfectly the browser behaviour, because the previews actually correspond to the modified pages ! This rocks ! Now I can offer my users a sneak preview of the pages after they have been Kaizoed …

I have finally decided to use a blog powered by Word Press to post news about Kaizou and Kaizou.org.

The Kaizou.org web site, which looks like Word Press, but is actually a custom development, will be from now on entirely dedicated to posting Kaizou files. I will then remove soon the ‘News’ side widget and replace it with a widget pointing to this blog.

I think I will also move the specification pages to this blog, because the Word Press editor is by far easier to use than my text editor !