Ostrich — A twitter client for Safari →
Developers work in ingenious ways. Jérôme Gravel-Niquet has created a Safari 5 extension that’s actually a twitter client right in your browser. Click the toolbar button (which throws up an unread tweets counter), and the timeline sheet slides down with elegance. You can send out new tweets, and it will even grab the url of the page you’re currently on. It’s still barebones (v0.1), but there’s no reason additional functionality won’t come in. I personally won’t use it, but there’s no reason not to try it out.
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Doesn’t seem to work for me. I can install it fine, and the button appears in the toolbar, but the sheet never slides down beyond the initial activation. Anyway, I’d rather use a native twitter client rather than an HTML-based (if easily accessible) one like this.
Once installed, if you already had tabs opened, they need to be refreshed so the extension is loaded on them. That’s a requirement from the Safari Extensions API. It should work fine on new pages or on reloaded pages.
Thanks for the article.
Well now I feel like an idiot. Thanks for the help.
I’ll try it out now. Hopefully your design will change my mind about extensions
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