Peter Carroll: Software Developer

Tag: addon

  • Esperanto Support Plugin for Anki

    So I decided to learn Esperanto, which as an avid user of the SRS application Anki, meant I needed to either enter Esperanto’s special characters (ĉ, ĝ, Ä¥, ĵ, ŝ, Å­) into my flash cards, which can’t easily be typed with the US International keyboard layout, or I could deal with the ugly “x method” […]

  • Barra de Español 1.2 is now available!

    The newest version of Barra de Español, version 1.2, is now available! See details about what’s new in this version in my post on Babelhut.com.

  • Simulating a keypress in Firefox

    Last night, I was working on Barra de Español and had spent quite a bit of time on Google looking for how to simulate a keypress in Firefox. It’s as simple as creating an event and dispatching it, though how to do so is not exactly intuitive. I needed to be able to do this […]

  • Barra de Español has been accepted to Mozilla’s public addon list

    I got an email today from the Mozilla Add-ons group that my add-on for Firefox, Barra de Español, has been approved to be in the public listing for Firefox add-ons! This means that it’s no longer listed as “experimental” and no longer requires that users check a box in order to install it. I was […]

  • Update: Barra de Español version 1.1 released!

    Just a quick update to announce that Barra de Español version 1.1 has been released. For more details, see my post on babelhut.com about the release.