Archive for June 15th, 2010

Safari Extensions

So you’ve probably heard that now you can build Safari extensions (simple intro here), and Safari’s got its own Dev Center and certification process and all. Quite the effort they’re putting behind this, isn’t it? Almost as if they have bigger plans to come, or something. In the meantime, here’s a few links that are keeping track of the first attempts at extension building until the official gallery opens:

Safari Extensions (safariextensions.tumblr.com)

Safari Extensions (safariextensions.org)

PimpMySafari

25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now

And we’ll start making a list of extensions with officially provided source here too:

Johan Brook’s Helvetify

Jérôme Gravel-Niquet’s Beautifier

Alexander Chuprin’s Read-in-Google-Reader

Rob Wilkerson’s Add To Google Reader

UPDATE:

Ching-Lan ‘digdog’ Huang’s Emoji

… and of course “.safariextz” files appear to be bog standard .zip so you can pretty much dig around them for anything you want, long as that doesn’t stress your ethics unduly.

If you have any other worthwhile sites or projects to add here, suggest away!

UPDATE:

Great, as usual, Ars Technica article on developing Safari extensions!

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