Software Developer and Director living in Leeds.
Links: My Company, jsPDF, Follow me on Twitter
This project is no longer active. Sorry!
I’ve finally launched a working version of Googlepedia for Chrome. The last version I built was before they had finalised how extensions were going to work and was a little rough around the edges.
Here’s the development build for you to try out before I submit to Google Chrome Extensions. Enjoy :)
You can help out with development by writing code at:
http://github.com/MrRio/googlepedia-chrome
or by sending me money to live :)
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
~ Charles Babbage, 1864
A Firefox extension I am writing needs PDF export. One way of making this work cross-platform would be to implement it in Javascript. So, that’s what I did..
It’s called jsPDF and can generate simple PDF documents using nothing but Javascript. No server-side needed. I’ve also got a few ideas for workarounds in browsers that do not support Data URIs well (I’m looking at you IE).
At the moment, it only does text. I’ve got some hacky code together that puts images into the mix, but I want to experiment a bit first to get it right. You can expect a new version next week. Subscribe to my blog or follow me on twitter and I’ll let you know :)
“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
~ Walt Disney
“You’re right, no human being would stack books like this.”
~ Dr. Venkman - Ghostbusters
Googlepedia for Chrome is now here! The installation is still rough round the edges since Chrome doesn’t yet have proper extension management features. It should be fairly straightforward though.
How to install:
If you have issues - please report them. Thanks! :)
Please come back soon to get new versions and bug fixes, Chrome should have an auto-update feature soon. Oh, and also please support development by donating! Thanks. :D