Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Bubbles + Greasemonkey = funky stuff

We've just released version 1.13, which apart of the usual improvements and bug-fixes includes a great feature we've been cooking in the stove, greasemonkey-like integration.

Version 1.13 allows .bblbox files (Bubble files, these describe what a bubble shows/how it interacts/etc) to contain JavaScript code that is invoked on a per-page basis. This allows rewriting of links, turning alerts into Bubbles - and basically anything you can come up with.

When we showed Vadim this feature, the first thing he did was write a .bblbox file that converts Google-Calendar alerts (e.g 'dinner begins in 5 minutes') into Bubble Balloons, meaning you can minimize your Google-Calendar to the tray and continue receiving your calendar-alerts, GREAT!

Here's the .bblbox file for this Google-Calendar-Bubbles trick, save it to your desktop and double-click.
If you don't have Bubbles, download it here first.

Head over to our Developers page, have a look at the samples, glance at the Reference and take your first shot at a .bblbox file Today!

Comments:
Hi There!

Any chance you could get command line parameters working?

Then I could, for example, put a shortcut on my desktop pointing to
"c:\programfiles\bubbles\bubbles.exe -mail.google.com"

and then it would really be like a desktop app.

Thanks!
 
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