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.

[matgb]

Oh, one thing, no idea how, but it's right at the bottom of my now rather long context menu (need to trim some of that, especially bad for images that are links), being able to move it, or just have it appear with the rest of the copy/edit stuff would be good. It must be possible, because COLT appears there.

[andrewducker]

Looks like that's something that you can do with a fullon addon, but not with a Jetpack one. Which is a shame, because Jetpack ones look to be easier to write, and don't require installation.

I'm looking at this documentation and not seeing anything useful for that.