Posts tagged: extension

A while ago, I wrote a very simple nofollow extension for Google Chrome. When enabled, it marks all no-follow links with a red highlight. Despite it’s simplicity, it has been downloaded a few thousand times!
So, with the release of Safari 5 and it’s new extensions system, I thought I’d knock together something that does the [...]

Over the past few years, search engines have been adding more and more content to every search result page. From local listings and maps, to images and tweets. A lot of people find that search results are now too cluttered and it’s difficult to actually see the listings themselves.
I’ve developed a Google Chrome extension that [...]

I’ve just written another Google Chrome extension, this time a little more complex. It’s a Twitter ‘Tweet This Page’ extension, much like the many available bookmarklets, except this one allows you to tweet directly from within the extension, without leaving the site you’re on to go to twitter.com. You’ll need to log into Twitter the [...]

As a quick follow up to my nofollow marker post, I’ve put up a new version of the extension. It does exactly the same job as the old one, except without the need for any JavaScript. The new extension simply uses the following CSS:
a[rel~=nofollow]
{
background-color: #FCC !important;
border: 1px dashed #F55 !important;
color: #600 !important;
}
I should really have thought [...]

I was just playing about with Google Chrome’s extension system, and threw together a very simple one that highlights all nofollow links in pink, as I’d seen a few people using something similar in Firefox. It doesn’t do anything complex, the code is as follows:
var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
var length = elements.length – 1;
[...]