After receiving a comment on a previous blog post, I added some preferences and redesigned my preferences dialog. It now has three tabs: Main, Extended, and Address. The wording and layout of the preferences will probably change, but any feedback Read more…
Here’s why I love NoScript – http://noscript.net/ Firefox 3.0 w/ NoScript & AdblockPlus in Gentoo Linux: NOTE: Do not go to the URL in the picture…I should have blurred it out.
Apparently there is a limit on the number of exteneded properties allowed by the Google Contacts Data API, so I can only sync 10 of the following: First name Last name Nickname Preferred e-mail format Allow remote content Homepage Work Read more…
After a little bit of programming last night (early this morning, actually) and this afternoon, I can now sync every attribute of an Address Book card that is visible in the Edit Card Dialog and then some. So, here is Read more…
I have almost finished adding some new attributes to the address book that can be synced with Google. The attributes will work on cards whether they are in the address book being synced or not. The catch: It requires the Read more…
Refactoring Since the last update, I have finished refactoring all of my code except for the code that converts contacts from one format to the other to make it more object-oriented. Bug 413260 I have applied the most recent patch Read more…
Introduction Thunderbird stores addresses using 6 fields: 2 lines for the address, the city, the state, the zip code, and the country. Google stores addresses in one field (supports multiple lines). Since these two differ so greatly, it is difficult Read more…
I wanted to test some Unicode characters to see if they would sync properly. So, I made up an e-mail address: üḯǟôÕ@host.com. The e-mail address synced without any error messages, but when I tried to edit the contact in Gmail Read more…
L10n (Localization) Support I finished adding support for localization to the extension. It previously used l10n for the XUL files, but I just finished localizing strings in the scripts. If you or somebody you know would like to help translate Read more…
I have been writing unit tests for importing address books and finally performed my first tests of verifying the imported data. It turns out that LDIF doesn’t import mozillahomestreet (Home Address line 1) even though it worked with mozillahomestreet2. So Read more…