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Google Chrome .tel Extension Hi, I have just published an extension for Google Chrome that will scan and alert you if the page your viewing has a .tel domain on it, it will then make the information easily viewable from the page your currently on. http://bit.ly/91DZ7k If anyone has any feedback I would love to hear it. Thanks Arthur ArthurGuy.co.uk |
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Nice. Does the extension use DNS records and do you do extensions for Firefox ? Mark[/size] |
The extension pulls the information from a page on my website which gets its information from the DNS records. I haven't made a firefox extension yet but I plan to do one at some point. There are a lot more for firefox than for chrome so one may exist already. Arthur |
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The reason I ask is because I'd like to help create a firefox extension to fill out a web form by using the information in the DNS. So the extension would have a button [Fill from .TEL] and when a .tel is supplied, the name, address, phone etc are copied from the DNS and into the form by matching common variable names. It would be a cool app to create and share with the community. I already use DNS to populate the database at www.telsites.info and have a dns-to-xml tool here for testing ... www.mytel.me/dns/tel-dns-to-xml.php?d=justin.tel I just dont have enough time to figure out FF extensions. Mark[/size] |
That sounds like a really cool extension, way outside of what I could do but it would be handy. There doesn't seem to be a rigid structure to the .tel dns records for addresses so it might be difficult finding that successfully although I see you managed it in your xml file. I might need to take a more detailed look at the dns records and there specifications. As for the xml api that would be very useful, I was thinking of trying something myself after having a lot of trouble figuring out the php examples for accessing the dns records. |
I use PHP for everything I do with TEL. I have to find time for more DNS to XML exploration and not for the extension coding but can help you with testing. If you want to explore the FF extension we can share the glory as it would really make .tel more popular. I'm sure that Telnic would even help with a press release to show another versatile use for TEL. This would be a win-win for everyone. Mark |
Hi everyone, I have ported my .tel Chrome extension to FireFox and would really appreciate it if one or two of you could try it for me. http://bit.ly/cRR2FL Thanks, Arthur |
What's the name of the extension? Mark |
.tel Info My previous link should take you to it. Thanks for giving it a try and please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions. |
It's installed, restarted FF. I see icon in bottom bar but when I go to a page with a .tel link, for example www.kprobe.com links to kprobe.tel the icon doesnt light up to let me see tel info. Mark |
I initially had to add the icon to the top bar manually by going to View > Toolbars > Customise There should also be a tiny icon in the status bar at the bottom, is this one not showing? What version of firefox are you using and does the add-on manger show it as being installed? The extension only scans visible text so it detects one on your website but it picks up the visible link text rather than the hidden .tel url. |
Very nice looking, I like it. It discovers TEL domain on the page and shows to the user. Here is place where you can debug your stuff: http://stupid.tel-4.com/ as it wrongly identifies some domains and links will not work (header). Some work on regular expressions is required yet. You should remove "icon" appearing as link. Contact me privately for business. |
I am aware of the problem of it identifying names which aren't actual .tel addresses but unless I try and fetch data from each address to confirm its validity there is no way to avoid this. I might change the code to identify .tel addresses in urls as well but if someone writes a .tel address on a page that doesn't exist it will show up and there is nothing I can do to avoid this. What do you mean by the icon appearing as a link? Thanks Arthur |
A minor request: in future, could the extensions support non-ascii domain names? try nadya.tel, and you'll get the xn--- view instead of the russian text. Also, why do some images show ok, while others don't resize and show as "Other 1"? When you click "view full size image" you see a small enough graphic, but the one shown in the list of contacts is not it. try telnic.tel Do you think moving the image up in the list of contacts would be helpful? It's often a logo or other info, so seeing it right away rather than at the end of a directory listing would help. |
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Works now. Had to drag it to the tool bar at top. Was only at bottom of page. Are you reading directly from the DNS? Mark[/size] |
Thanks for the feedback regarding the images, at present the display page looks for any url beginning gravatar.com and if found displays it as an image otherwise it just shows the Other text and a link. I implemented it this way because my .tel provider only allows gravatar images and I assumed this was the case for everyone. I will get it updated to better identify images and display them correctly. I was going to try and place images at the top but at the time I didn't have time to identify and separate the images properly so I left it out. I will be making this change, hopefully in the next few days. JLouisBiz I see what you mean about messing up the domain, I appear to have missed the - from the search term. I will update it to scan for any links present on the page but I am not going to remove the ability to identify .tel addresses in plane text, I think the benefits out way the odd times a .tel address is listed but doesn't exist. Importing the records into different contacts systems is a nice idea, I will look into this. Nadya Non-ascii domain names isn't something I am that familiar with but leave it with me and I will do my best Thanks for all your feedback |
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Yes and no, the extension pulls up a webpage in an iframe, that web page then pulls the information from the dns records[/size] |
Sure, it shall look for text .TEL domains as well. For non-ascii domains, look into Punycode on Internet, and find some convertor. I am using simple punycode function in Perl, but for Javascript and PHP, you have to search on Internet. it is important for Russian and Arabian and many other Unicode based TEL domains. Don't search for gravatar at all in your PHP, search for the service: E2U+x-photo:http And extract the image link from the regular expression from DNS: thetabiz.tel has NAPTR record 101 127 "u" "E2U+x-photo:http+x-lbl:THETABIZ-S.A." "!^.*$!http://www.thetabiz.com/images/logo-96x96.png!" |
We have now a big reason to embed TEL domain within every page of our website. Embed your TEL to be found! |
