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		<title>Firefox Extension: HTML Entity Character Lookup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remy Sharp wrote a web service to look up HTML Entity Character. The service &#8220;allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks&#8221;. There is also an OpenSearch plugin and MacOS Dashboard widget. Kudos to Remy!
I figured a Firefox extension clone would be handy, and it wouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://leftlogic.com/lounge/articles/entity-lookup/">Remy Sharp wrote a web service</a> to look up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html">HTML Entity Character</a>. The service &#8220;allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks&#8221;. There is also an OpenSearch plugin and MacOS Dashboard widget. Kudos to Remy!</p>
<p>I figured a Firefox extension clone would be handy, and it wouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to make one, thus:</p>
<p><img src="http://yining.org/firefox/extensions/html-entity-char-lookup/screenshot-lookup-window-1.png"/></p>
<p>This extenion is simple: a GUI wraps and calls the Javascript code Remy wrote (with a little modifiication, basically renaming global variables to make them unique) and then displays the result. The code is licensed under Creative Commons by-sa 2.5, same as Remy&#8217;s code.</p>
<p>It should work on Firefox from version 1.5 and above (have tested on 3.0aPre7 too), also on Netscape Navigator and Flock, let me know if you have any problem using it.</p>
<p>To try out, go to <a href="http://www.yining.org/firefox/extensions/html-entity-char-lookup/">the extension&#8217;s home page</a> and click install (it&#8217;s currently hosted on my server, so you have to let Firefox allow download and install extension from my server).</p>
<p>I could have made the extension remotely invoke Remy&#8217;s web service, parse the return html and present the result, but it might not be a good option, because: </p>
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<li>I need it work while off-line (too much distraction online);</li>
<li>HTML entities character set doesn&#8217;t change that often, what&#8217;s the last addition? &euro; maybe?</li>
<li>Overhead from network traffic and CPU cycles parsing html;</li>
<li>Not really a reason though: I could later make use of the new <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Online/Offline_Events">Online and Offline Events</a> and provide user the options;</li>
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<p>Update (09/09/2008):<br />
You should be able to have it run on Firefox 3.0.1 and above.</p>
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