The Thing What I Wrote

[andrewducker]

I spent the afternoon grappling with Javascript, writing my very first Firefox addon.

I repost images on Livejournal/Dreamwidth a lot, and I'm not the only one. And I've noticed that I tend to forgot the alt text (and title text) when I do that.

So what would be very handy is if I could right-click on an image and select "Copy Image Source" and get the image, complete with any information that was in the IMG tag.

And so I wrote one.

You can get it here if you think it would be useful.

And if you have any feedback on improvements to it, just let me know. It's trivially simple, but that doesn't mean I've missed something obvious that would make it better for some people.

Comments

[matgb]

Ooh, nice. I had a copy image source addon ages back, but it stopped being updated and died. Nice one.

Test:


Excellent.

[simont]

I idly wonder if it might be a good idea to have it default to also pasting a line of text after the image saying something like "(copied from <a href="original page source">here</a>)". Both to gently hint that giving credit is polite to people who tend to forget that, and to make life (even) easier for those who were planning to anyway.

(Of course for your example case of xkcd people are hardly going to fail to recognise where it's from, but...)

[tysolna]

... while recuperating from a cold. My hat's off to you, Sir.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

That's pretty awesome. Does it copy the height and width, too? It's only polite, after all...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Useful if you're going to hotlink, but unfortunately not the greatest choice for me. Still, neat!

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather people used hyperlinks :(