Firefox Add-on for weheartit.com
I have built a Firefox Add-on (sometimes known as an ‘extension’) for the popular website We Heart It.
We Heart It is a popular visual bookmarking site, a place where people can save images they find on the web for inspiration or simply to keep your favourite images.
Members add images to their account by using a ‘bookmarklet’ which is a button they drag to their bookmarks bar on their browser, which when clicked highlights all images on a webpage that you can submit.
Whilst this works, the conceopt of bookmarketlets is often tricky for users to grasp, and highlighting most images on a page can prove quite disruptive to your browsing.
I thought that this would be the perfect scenario for a Firefox add-on, that would let you right click an image and submit it to We Heart It. So I entered the mysterious world of building Firefox add-ons. A task which lacks any real documentation and, for me anyway, relies a lot on trial and error.
There are 3 conditions to submitting an image to We Heart It, the image has to be over a certain size, it has to be on a webpage and cannot already be on weheartit.com. After a lot of fiddling about, I managed to create an add-on which complies with these rules and seems to work just right.
The add-on is currently being downloaded and tested by We Heart It users, and was announced on Twitter yesterday. I hope that it will become a ‘official’ part of the site in the future.
You can download and install the addon on the Firefox Add-ons website and find out more about We Heart It on weheartit.com/about.
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