Announcement: Firefox Navibar Extension 0.10

# Announcement of the Firefox Navibar Extension 0.10

Hey, do you ever heard of Navibar? No!? That's why I am telling you the 
Firefox Navibar Extension is an extension for Mozilla Firefox and is 
going into a new round(version 0.10). Whenever you load a document with 
your Firefox, Navibar tries to get a Sitemap from the website you are 
currently visiting and builds up a navigation tree of all known webpages 
of the website in the Sidebar. You can browse through the webpages of a 
website by surfing on the tree so fast that you need a soda pop to cool 
down... The format of the Sitemap can be chosen: use a XML/RDF format[1] 
or take the Google Sitemaps(XML) and extend it with some additional 
information[2].

Navibar intends, to give intranet-users a handy and good old proved 
navigation tree to explore the web contents of their intranet. However 
the new version of Navibar gives much more and also takes care of 
internet-users:

An extended behavior of loading -- exactly the 4-Steps-Loading-Phase -- 
gives webdevelopers whole over the world a fine granulated mechanism to 
load a Sitemap from any destination, from the directory of the current 
URL you are visiting or from the root of the website. This lies in the 
hand of each owner of a website and also those people who are owning 
only a part of a website. An other issue is the Google Sitemaps format 
which can be loaded by Navibar when you are kind enough to extend the 
Sitemap with information about the structure of your webpages.

More of this, a detailed documentation for end-users and 
webdevelopers[3], and the specifications for all supported Sitemaps can 
be found on the Homepage of the Firefox Navibar Extension at 
http://navibar.oaklett.org. By the way, Navibar is an Open Source tool 
and can be used on your own risk or pleasure.

All bugfixes and new features can be viewed at the changelog[4].

If you are not interested in Navibar or worried about this announcement, 
please open your garbage can and feed it with this email. In regard,

Markus Siebeneicher
<siebeneicher@oaklett.org>
http://navibar.oaklett.org


# References

[1] http://navibar.oaklett.org/specs/nns-10/ - (Navibars Native Sitemap 
format)
[2] http://navibar.oaklett.org/specs/negs-10/ - (Navibars Extension for 
Google Sitemaps)
[3] http://navibar.oaklett.org/docs/0.10/
[4] ftp://navibar.oaklett.org/navibar/changelog

Received on Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:13:37 UTC