{"id":178362,"date":"2018-12-22T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/22\/i-have-released-a-my-first-ever-piece-of-software\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:51:00","slug":"i-have-released-a-my-first-ever-piece-of-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/22\/i-have-released-a-my-first-ever-piece-of-software\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Released a My First Ever Piece of Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ZuGBw7H.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ZuGBw7H.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>When the Firefox browser was updated from 56 to 57 (Quantum) the previous browser addon technologies (XUL\/XPCOM) were obsoleted and replaced with the (less powerful) Web Extensions API.<\/p>\n<p>One that I could not live without was BBCodeXtra, which provided a context menu which allowed various tags in bbCode, vBulletin, Markdown, and HTML to be automated, along with users to create custom tags.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it is largely a copy of the menu structure of BBCodeXtra.<\/p>\n<p><i>(on edit) I now have the program up on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/msaroff\/bbCodeWebEx\/releases\">the releases page at gitHub<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As soon as this is on addons.mozilla.org, I will post the link to that here.&nbsp;<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a>I have not formally put it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla Addons<\/a>, because it is still at a preliminary state, basically alpha.<\/p>\n<p>The code is released&nbsp; under an MIT open source license, and you can find the source code on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/msaroff\/bbCodeWebEx\">Github as bbCodeWebEx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The icons are <b>NOT<\/b> under the MIT License, having been done by by Charles Saroff, and he holds the copyright under a yet as to be determined license.<\/p>\n<p>While this will work with pre-Quantum (Firefox 56 and earlier) versions of the browser, the clipboard functionality does not work.<\/p>\n<p>I should warn you that this is some of the ugliest JavaScript in the known world, and perusing it may lead to all sorts of physical and mental problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Firefox browser was updated from 56 to 57 (Quantum) the previous browser addon technologies (XUL\/XPCOM) were obsoleted and replaced with the (less powerful) Web Extensions API. One that I could not live without was BBCodeXtra, which provided a context menu which allowed various tags in bbCode, vBulletin, Markdown, and HTML to be automated, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[651],"class_list":["post-178362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbcodewebex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}