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 The FireGoose Gaggle Toolbar for Firefox
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A Firefox Extension that connects the gaggle to the web through the firefox
browser.

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By: Christopher Bare
    cbare at systemsbiology org.

Based on previous work by Paul Shannon.

With components from the java-firefox-extension found here:
http://simile.mit.edu/java-firefox-extension/.

Created in the Baliga lab at the Institute for Systems Biology.
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Technologies: XUL, javascript, Java 5, RMI, Gaggle

See http://gaggle.systemsbiology.org


Naming Convention Prefixes:

 fg_    - XUL widgets
 fgcmd_ - XUL command elements
 FG_    - global javascript variable and functions


Calling Java from Javascript:
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Some features would be less awkward if I could invoke javascript from java,
for example show and hide. I tried using the JSObject, which is how
you'd do it in an applet. It seemed to work except for using the "call"
method. Maybe a security issue? You have to use a "mayscript" attribute to
give an applet permission to call into javascript. I can't do that from
an extension, so maybe that's the problem.


Import website handler:
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Load a js file in the browser, then select the menu item "Tools|Firegoose|
Import Website Handler". The js will be eval'ed. This is useful for loading new
or experimental website handlers. The file websiteHandler.js is an example of
the interface a script must implement to be a website handler.