Ubiquity: Arf-arf ! smooch ! Achoo! Wee Woo !

Ok, after a few others (Pawel, Thomas Lemberger, Egon, )I've succumbed to Mozilla Ubiquity, an experimental Firefox extension that (they say) gives you a powerful way to interact with the Web. The following useless script comics inserts a speech balloon using the font samples from http://www.dafont.com/

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
name: "comics",
author: { name: "Pierre Lindenbaum", email: "plindenbaum@yahoo.fr"},
description: "Comics",
takes: {"Your text": noun_arb_text},
help: "Insert a speech balloon with a comic font ",

preview: function( pblock, theShout ) {
var msg = "Inserts a speech balloon : (<i>"+ theShout.summary+"</i>)";
pblock.innerHTML = CmdUtils.renderTemplate( msg );
},

execute: function(theShout) {
CmdUtils.setSelection(
"<img src=\'http://img.dafont.com/preview.php?text=" +
escape(theShout.text)+
"&ttf=badaboom_bb0&size=49&psize=m&y=58'/>"
);
}
})

It worked fine with GMail !



Update: The script is available here.

Pierre