Barra de Español 1.2 is now available!
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
The newest version of Barra de Español, version 1.2, is now available! See details about what’s new in this version in my post on Babelhut.com.
Simulating a keypress in Firefox
Tue, Oct 27, 2009
Last night, I was working on Barra de Español and had spent quite a bit of time on Google looking for how to simulate a keypress in Firefox. It’s as simple as creating an event and dispatching it, though how to do so is not exactly intuitive. I needed to be able to do this because inserting accented characters from Barra de Español was not working in the message body textbox in Gmail and other webmail apps.
Barra de Español has been accepted to Mozilla's public addon list
Sat, Aug 29, 2009
I got an email today from the Mozilla Add-ons group that my add-on for Firefox, Barra de Español, has been approved to be in the public listing for Firefox add-ons! This means that it’s no longer listed as “experimental” and no longer requires that users check a box in order to install it.
Update: Barra de Español version 1.1 released!
Sun, Jun 7, 2009
Just a quick update to announce that Barra de Español version 1.1 has been released. For more details, see my post on babelhut.com about the release.
Barra de Español: The making of a Firefox extension
Fri, May 22, 2009
I have just released a new Firefox add-on called Barra de Español, a toolbar for those who are studying the Spanish language. It makes it easier to find definitions for words in Spanish or English, it helps you insert special characters that are specific to Spanish into any textbox in Firefox, and it provides links to native Spanish websites useful for learning the language. You may install it from addons.mozilla.org.