Bloglines Toolkit 1.5.1 »
About a week ago, I pushed a new version of the Bloglines Toolkit to the site. This version, 1.5.1, does not change anything function-wise, but it does unify the toolkit into a single package containing multiple localizations. Okay, multiple might be a bit much. It has the English version and the Portuguese version. But it's a single package that should handle both languages. If you are running version 1.5.0, and check for updates, you may have already received this version. If you haven't, you may or may not want to upgrade to it. Except for the new packaging, there really isn't a reason to do so.
The really cool thing that this does is that it opens the way for more localizations. If you hadn't noticed, Mark recently announced multiple language support for Bloglines (and this is really multiple language support, with more than two!). Now, it should be pretty easy for someone to create even more translations for the toolkit, so that not only your Bloglines interface is in your local language, but the toolkit will be as well. Anyone who is interested in localizing the toolkit for a language, let me know and I'll get you started on the process.
Comments (14)
I'd like to suggest a simple feature for Bloglines Toolkit: I'd like to open Bloglines in a new tab when I middle-click the "B" icon.
Thanks,
Daniel Serodio
Posted by Daniel Serodio | December 13, 2004 1:04 PM
Since this appears to be the most commonly-voiced request at this point, I'll be happy to consider it for an upcoming release of the extension. However, I am going to hold off on working on this feature until this new Dropcash campaign has been completed.
Posted by Chad Everett | December 13, 2004 1:22 PM
The Japanese version of Bloglines Toolkit 1.5.1 was made. May I open to the public?
This text was translated into English from Japanese by Amikai.
Posted by Norah | December 18, 2004 10:03 AM
Hey,
Thanks for the Bloglines Notifier, but I'm getting a bug in Mozilla 1.7.5. Whenever I start up Mozilla, I get an error message that says: TypeError: document.getElementById("contentAreaContextMenu") has no properties
I'm pretty sure this is related to the notifier; do you know what it means? If not, can you tell me how to uninstall the notifier?
Posted by Phil Thomson | December 31, 2004 5:49 AM
Thanks for the great extension!
I'd like to ask for two changes (if possible):
1) An option to hide the icon in the status bar
2) To put the icon in the status bar to the left of ForecastFox icons (I don't know if you can change this, but the B icon is the last on of the status bar and i think it would fit better in the left of forecastfox icons)
Posted by Pescuma | January 8, 2005 8:01 PM
Hi!
Congratulations for your extension!
Is very very useful, I use it every day (in fact, many many times a day ;-)
I just want ask you if someone is translating the toolkit to spanish and, if not, if I can translate it.
Thanks and congrats aganin.
Posted by Rick | January 10, 2005 4:13 AM
I love the Bloglines extension you have developed; I use it every day. Thank you! But I have a feature request.
Here's some background about how I use Bloglines: I have a small amount of my feeds detected by the notifier; these are family and friends feeds that I want to know about immediately. The majority of my feeds I don't have detected by the notifier; I usually visit Bloglines once a day to read these feeds.
Here's the request: Right now, clicking on the blue "B" in the bottom right hand corner only takes me to Bloglines if there is a new post detected by the notifier (and the read "New" star is displayed). I would like clicking on the "B" to take me to Bloglines even if I don't have any new posts detected by the notifier (and the red star).
Posted by Randy | January 19, 2005 10:30 AM
Hi Randy -
This is actually a feature that will be present in an upcoming release of the extension, though perhaps not exactly as you intend. I can't say more than that right now, because it's actually still in development, so I don't know exactly how it will work - but in essence, the notification of new items and the ability to view your blogs will be separate and distinct functions.
Posted by Chad Everett | January 20, 2005 12:54 PM
I think the Gmail notifier extension breaks the Bloglines notifier.
Posted by Anon | January 20, 2005 5:50 PM
I'm very sorry to hear that.
Posted by Chad Everett | January 21, 2005 5:36 AM
Hi there,
The BT 1.5.1 does not shows the correct numbers of blogs unread, even there is no unread blogs, the BT still shows sometimes 33, sometimes 34 unread items. Pretty annoying.
Thanks
David
Posted by David | February 2, 2005 8:42 AM
Hi David -
The Toolkit does absolutely zero processing of that number, and it's simply something returned by Bloglines. If you'd like to check it out for yourself, try connecting to this web address in your browser:
You should see something like this:
The number between the pipes is the number of unread items, according to the Bloglines web service that processes the request.
The only thing done by the toolkit is to extract that number. No processing, no finagling, nothing. Just "find the number and display it". If you have a number there when you feel that you shouldn't, you ought to contact Bloglines.
If instead you have started reading your blogs, and in the process have read everything, but the Toolkit still shows the number of unread items, you need to refresh the count. You can also disable the refresh for a particular period after clicking to display your blogs. Otherwise, just wait for it to refresh.
Posted by Chad Everett | February 2, 2005 9:09 AM
Firefox is telling me there's an update for the extension (1.5.4), but when it tries to upgrade it, there's an error that its not a valid install package. Help?
Posted by Michael | April 3, 2005 12:28 PM
Hi there
Really like your tool(kit). But here are some feature-requests:
right-clicking on the big blue B shouldn't give me the options for the toll, but the context-menu I get when I right click somewhere on the site and choose Bloglines Toolkit. So it just needs 2 clicks and no big mouse-moving to subscribe to a site.
Mhm - ok just one request, but though it should be easier to implement :-)
KMB
Posted by KMB | May 5, 2005 4:01 AM