mozilla feature request: multiline location in bookmark properties dialog

January 8, 2003

After looking at Text and Data Bookmarklets and seeing how cool they are I really would like to have the ability to edit Javascript in bookmarks properties dialog a little easier… it doubt it would not be too hard to change the widget.

Steve… can you get to work on this?

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1. Steven Cummings | January 8, 2003 at 2:31 pm

Yeah, but I’ll need a little time to dig in. After going through the various rdf files that *seem* to control the skins, I couldn’t find anything referring to that dialog. So I suppose I’ll actually have to consult official mozilla project docs on their website. But you’re right that it shouldn’t be hard in the end, I’m just not immediately knowledgeable in actually hacking moz.
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2. Steven Cummings | January 8, 2003 at 3:54 pm

Well, I’ll do some more web-searching tomorrow. I can’t find that property in any of the config files. I’ve searched all rdf, js, and xul files under mozilla and phoenix for this property. All literature I’m reading online about customization spends most of the time talking about replacing images and what-not for themes. I’m not even seeing where they define the “New Bookmark” dialog…
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3. Steven Cummings | January 9, 2003 at 11:04 am

Grr… after much thorough searching on the internet and within Mozilla itself, I think that this particular thing cannot be done without re-compiling. All of the customization is meant to configure the main color schemes and provide custom images for themes. But nowhere can I find information on actually changing any of the dialog widgets themselves. For this, it would appear that you have to approach mozilla as a library to code a custom browser from (which I doubt you want to do from this feature request). Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
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4. nathan | January 9, 2003 at 11:14 am

Thanks for the looking.
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