Sharing an extension?

[afuna]

I am playing with the thought of sharing the extensions I wrote/talked about in my previous entry. I feel like at least one other person could benefit from it!

But on the other hand, I'm feeling unsure of myself: I based the idea on a very useful Firefox extension (Copy Link Text), and I based the final working code on another Google Chrome extension (Auto Copy).

And then there's the matter of putting up $5 to be able to submit to the gallery! (It's not purely the cost, but it's the cost being enough of a speedbump that I'm making myself think about whether I want to do this or not).

I want to share, but I also feel like I don't have sufficient whatever to share. Ugh. Will try this again after getting some rest; that sometimes helps.

Comments

[delight]

I'm honestly also wondering where you found Adblock for Chrome! It's like, the only browser that works on my netbook so I would loooooove to not have to look at ads.

(But I would definitely use that extension.)

[afuna]

Adblock for Chrome

(Will add to my previous entry, for others' reference *g*)

ETA: I stumbled across a bunch of other adblock extensions, like AdThwart, and others, but I haven't tried them. I went with this one because I think it's by the same author as the one in Firefox, and that's stood me in good stead.

[dreamatdrew]

You have to pay to share it... that are LAME!!

[thorfinn]

Make a Safari extension instead, it's free? :-)

I can't believe Google are charging money to submit extensions. That's just... special. :-/

More usefully, share the extension code on http://github.com/ or something instead so people can download and build themselves?

[afuna]

Hee! I probably can't be bothered to learn how to write extensions for yet another browser *G* (the only reason I decided to try this one out is because I am thinking of moving over to it *G*)

I ended up paying the money -- I think that it's more to establish a paper trail, to avoid spammer-type/malicious people. It's just for the first extension and doesn't expire, so not like, eg., Apple's $100-a-year dev membership thing. Still makes me sad a bit, because hey, students who have no credit cards! But I guess their world, their rules.

And oooh, good idea. I ended up actually putting out the money to put it in the gallery, but I should share it beyond that, too...

[thorfinn]

I meant to reply ages ago - Safari Dev is free, iOS dev is USD99 a year, Mac OS dev is USD99 a year too.

Mac OS Dev is particularly worthwhile if one happens to want to run Mac OS X Server, which I have done recently. :-)

[afuna]

Oh hmmm. Yeah none of these are worth it for me right now, since I don't have the time to play with writing / distributing apps, but maybe some day. Thanks for the info!

(Mac OS Dev -- is that just for distributing with apple, or does it involve getting a copy of xcode, etc?)

[thorfinn]

No worries.

Mac OS Dev: It's all download-only, not media, but you get access to all the current and pre-release versions of everything, XCode, Mac OS X versions, etc.

I assume that once they have the Mac App Store up and running, the Mac OS Dev payment will entitle you to submit apps onto it, exactly the same as the iOS Dev payment lets you submit apps to the iOS App Store.

[shinsetsu]

Afuna, you worked hard on that for that icky Chrome browser (I am prejudiced). Dun pay them anything. They should pay YOU. Turds. Grrrrr...I dun like Chrome. Never did.

[afuna]

Heee! I forgot that you disliked Chrome *g*

[murklins]

I remember when getting an extension hosted on AMO was, like, the hardest thing I had ever done. There was the sandbox, and the review queue, and the review failure due to insufficient comments (due, of course, to BEING IN THE SANDBOX -- ugh, vicious circle). Still, it was worth it in the end, because it def does help the people who have the same needs as you find the thing you made. You can help the lives of so many! So maybe just for that it's worth the $5.

(That said, can't you just upload it to your server space and share the link?)

[afuna]

Oh erk! *lots of retroactive <3 for going through the AMO process*

I guess it is worth the $5 to share code that I wrote for free ahahaha. (I think the reason is to establish that I'm not some evil spammer or malware writer or whatever. WHICH I AM HAPPY TO PROVE.)

I can host it on my own server space, but there was something about providing for automatic upgrades, and at that point I realized that I was too lazy to do that *G* (I guess the $5 is worth it after all!)