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May 20, 2006
Javascript Extensions for IE
Or more correctly, Maxthon (an IE shell). They have the concept of JavaScript-based plugins that can live in a sidebar or on the toolbar, and have quite a few of them available.
Definitely not as powerfull as the Mozilla extension system we've had for years, but shows that it is possible to extend IE with JavaScript. I wonder why Microsoft hasn't introduce a similar device for IE7, but I guess that could undermine their .NET/ strategy.
Posted by doron at May 20, 2006 12:50 PM
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I don't see anything exciting here. The JavaScript plugins are little different from bookmarklets (eg http://www.bookmarklets.com/ - most of that site is from 98-99) and sidebar plugins are just webpages that are displayed alongside another webpage (much like Seamonkey's sidebar, which was removed for Phoenix/Firefox)
Posted by: Ian Thomas at May 20, 2006 3:37 PM
Yes these are just bookmarks. Of more interest is the 'JS-Plugin'. The link I had is dead but I'm sure it can be found on the Maxthon Forums. It allows the running of unchanged Greasemonkey scripts. Similarly there's Reify - that runs in IE but not (yet?) in Maxthon.
Posted by: Jon Wright at May 20, 2006 6:07 PM
I want to use XPinstall plugin installer based on javascript. There are 2 things bothering me. one is my plugin won't avaiable in plugin available list, I need to manaually install. The other thing is when I clicked the manual install button, it opened a new windows, so
refreshPlugins(true) doesn't mean anything to the page. I still couldn't use plugin right away becacuase I was directed to the new page. Do you have a good solution to this?
Posted by: lookingforanswer at September 12, 2006 8:07 AM