Tails Add-on

Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Tails Script
  3. Writing Your Own Tails Scripts

Overview

The Tails Firefox Extension allows you to view microformats embedded on a web page, and perform customizable actions on the microformats via Tails Scripts.

Latest Release: Tails Firefox Extension 0.3.8 (8/5/2007) (Firefox 1.4+, Flock 1.0+).  This release just updates the plugin to be installable in Flock 1.0.  You can read about the 0.3.7 release here.

If you’re interested in the older versions of Tails, you can read about it here. You can also read about the obsolete Flocktails extension here.

The Tails extension is an open source project, you can get the source and view current Tails issues here.

Supported Microformats

  • Contact Information (hCard)
  • Calendar Information (hCalendar)
  • Reviews (hReviews)
  • Bookmarks (xFolk)
  • Blog Entries (hAtom)
  • Resumes (hResume)
  • Map Coordinates (geo)

Screenshots

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ritzenhoff August 5, 2007 at 9:41 am

Same problem with my Flock installation (0.9.0.1). Would be cool if you could fix it :)

Calvin Yu August 5, 2007 at 9:46 pm

I’ve updated the version # so that it’ll work with the latest Flock, and didn’t notice any incompatibilities. Here’s the URL:

http://codeeg.com/tails/tails-0.3.8.xpi

-Calvin

Phoenix September 10, 2007 at 4:29 am

THX Clavin! This one works perfect! :)

environment October 5, 2007 at 6:15 pm

Same problem with my Flock installation

Keenan Brock October 16, 2007 at 10:46 am

FYI/ Had to manually install to get anything above tails-0.3.4.xpi. not sure if this is a FAQ.

Also, please update link at top of page to reflect tails-0.3.8 instead of 0.3.7.

Thanks for the great product.
–K

Tian October 16, 2007 at 10:50 am

Excellent Extension, Really Useful!

Calvin Yu October 31, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Thanks for pointing that out, Keenan. I’ve updated all the relevant links to point to 0.3.8

– Calvin

Editor April 1, 2008 at 6:46 am

I seem to be having a problem with this one… http://codeeg.com/tails/tails-0.3.8.xpi didn’t work for me???

Calvin Yu April 3, 2008 at 5:42 am

I’m not seeing any problems with that current release.

What was the exact nature of your error? What browser and version are you using?

-Calvin

anguenot April 16, 2008 at 9:23 am

Hi,
Excellent Extension.
Is there a way to have the source code ? There is no download available on code.google.com. Have you plan to release a version of Tails ?

Calvin Yu April 16, 2008 at 9:26 am

You can get the source code from Google Code provided that you have experience with using Subversion. If not, you can download the *.xpi file, change the extension from .xpi to .zip, and decompress it using a program like WinZip. All the source is in that file.

Nils May 28, 2008 at 1:35 am

I like this extension. Although I have a little question. Using not the standard-rating-system, but my own system (0 to 10; including class=”value” and class=”best”), tails will only show me e.g. 7/5 (seven out of five) though it should be 7/10. Can anyone reproduce this or is it a glitch?

Calvin Yu May 28, 2008 at 5:51 am

I think the hReview spec specifies that ratings are on the scale of 0-5:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview

Nils May 28, 2008 at 7:45 am

Yes, that is the standard. But under “rating”, we can find: “Optionally a different integral ‘worst’ value and/or ‘best’ value MAY be specified to indicate a different range (e.g. 6 from 0-10).” And have a look at the “Multidimensional Restaurant Review”-example. There Tantek uses a scale up to 30 – but tails shows only 18/5. :-(

Calvin Yu June 5, 2008 at 7:50 pm

I see. I don’t actively maintain Tails anymore, but I’ll put it on my list of things to do. Thanks!

Calvin

markus June 19, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Is the version 0.3.8 not compatible with firefox 3?

Simon July 24, 2008 at 7:43 am

Why don’t you add this to the Firefox extensions page? I always have to Google this page after I install a new Firefox browser and keep forgetting the name (too similar to the other Tails add-on).

Calvin July 24, 2008 at 10:58 am

To be honest I’m really too busy to do active maintenance on this add-on these days, that’s primarily the reason it’s not on the Firefox extensions page.

Also, the Operator Add-on is probably a better microformats extension, and it has someone doing active maintenance on it. Right now I don’t have a reason to duplicate that effort.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106

TechDivision October 14, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Excellent work! Thanks for this extension, it helps me a lot… But it doesn´t work with Firefox 3, right?

Calvin October 14, 2008 at 6:30 pm

No, unfortunately it doesn’t. I really don’t have the time to work on this extension anymore. I would recommend looking at the Operator Add-on instead.

-Calvin

Webshopnews October 26, 2008 at 5:44 am

This extension is a blast. Thank you so much! If you´re in Munich one time, please let me know. I´ll spend you a beer for that… :-)

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