This is a port of Ruffus Pollock's the chrome-cs-viewer ( https://github.com/rgrp/chrome-csv-viewer ). I port it on FireFox. You can continue development by using The Addon-Sdk, You can download it From Here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK. Basically this extension allow you instead of dowloadin a CSV file locally it open new tabs and display your datas into The reclineJs 's Grid/Map Viewer. You can get more informations about what does reclineJS does by visising the official website here http://okfnlabs.org/recline/
git clone https://github.com/okfn/mozilla-csv-viewer
Run git submodule commands to get the last version of chrome-csv-viewer
git submodule init git submodule update
Install jpm
npm install jpm --global or sudo install jpm --global
Run The extension from Cli (Addon jpm)
jpm run
Package The extension, this mean That we are going to genarte the The Xpi File
For The Extension Manager
jpm xpi
You can find interesting things here (like How to handle communication
between content_scripts and 'data.url('file.html')'. Or How you can use
The messaging processing between content_scripts and 'main.js' file
with posMessage and onMessage stuffs
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/jpm
http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/09/01/add-on-sdk-faq-content-script-access/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Guides/Content_Scripts
Fork code
Open new Issues
pull request
Wait for review this will take generally some minutes :)
Copyright & License
Copyright 2014 Alioune Dia . Note that this utilizes various third-party libraries which may be differently licensed.
Licensed under the MIT license:
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