From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8525 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Brooks Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: BBDB related Firefox extension Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:39:38 -0600 Organization: Time-Warner Telecom Message-ID: References: <87ejqnkshd.fsf@fukaolx15.rish.kuins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168720858 21151 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2007 20:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 21:40:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H5pgJ-00047v-Ee for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:40:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H5pgJ-0008F4-Ek for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:40:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!posts.news.twtelecom.net!nnrp3.twtelecom.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UaBxiOiWJxlEB5/5I8syTIE2rGM= Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2007 20:39:37 GMT Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3e050adf.news.twtelecom.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=i7l?3fnGDZ@KDb82jEOAVKC_A=>8kQj6M14\NmbkV; iMd_l4C@_m1kBUf\\WELc6aCK=Vda@b`o6EkcUMa_dNAkL Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@twtelecom.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78709 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8525 Archived-At: Gernot Hassenpflug writes: > Daniel Brooks writes: > >> I imagine that not everyone on this group follows Firefox extensions, >> but there's a really interesting one that was released a few days >> ago. It's called Operator (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/), >> and basically it parses information from webpages that use >> microformats (microformats.org) and gives the user ways to actually >> use that information, such as sending the data to an address book, or >> a mapping website. >> >> Since I use Gnus and BBDB for my email and address book, I wrote an >> extension to it that takes contact information from an hCard and uses >> emacsclient to insert it into the BBDB. It's available from >> http://db48x.net/microformats/bbdb.js. It's still in the very early >> stages, and all it can do is send the data to emacs. It can't detect >> duplicate entries or try to merge them or anything like that, but I >> thought someone might be interested. > > Wow! That sounds great. I will try this tonight. Hmm, never used the > vCard/hCard microformats (although many MS Windows OS users have > vCards attached to their emails), missed that bit of web magic! > > Would it be possible to modify such an extension in Thunderbird (or > mozilla) also, read email adddresses from BBDB and add them to the > Thunderbird (or mozilla) addressbook? Yea, you could write an extension to do that. This one wouldn't be suitable to modify for that purpose though. The easiest way to go would be to read and parse the .bbdb file and put it's contents into Thunderbird's address book. Also, in case you've upgraded to Operator .6.1, there's a small change that will need to be made to bbdb.js in order for it to work. I'll try to make that change over the weekend. db48x