what is tribext ? What does it do ? And does it run on FF 3.6 (melo says no) ? keep to the Fen Causeway
Tribext is a Firefox add-on specially for ET, written by someone. Unfortunately someone is hideously busily occupied with making black holes, so hasn't been able to develop it beyond Firefox 3.5.x (so it doesn't run on FF 3.6)
Tribext with FF 3.5 can allow you to
copy into a blockquote with title and link above it, an excerpt from an html page (article etc, or other ETer's comment or diary...) which you paste into your comment without further ado... that's how the news items in the Salon are done, like this, done with tribext:
Helen:
what is tribext ? What does it do ?
go straight to new comments in a thread without having to scroll for them.
should also provide for dynamic rating as on DKos, but I don't get that feature with FF 3.5.
There are other things I'm forgetting. But for the clip with title and link alone, it's invaluable.
Look down the left column till you see it mentioned.
It's never the software. It's the user's expectations.
You just need to work on their mind, a bit.
;-)
tidy little thing, a blogger's boon. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
