fortune
A minimalist browser extension that displays a new quote in the browser tab. For example, when you open a new tab, you will see quotes like this:
"And this is aviation; I give it to the world." - Louis Mouillard, French Inventor/Aeronaut (1834-1897)
"We were on the point of abandoning our work when the book of Mouillard fell into our hands, and we continued with the results you know." - Wilbur Wright, American Inventor/Aviator (1867-1921)
This extension is named after popular Unix Program
Fortune_(Unix)
fortune is a program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations.
, a command line utility which displays quotes in the shell. The browser with tabs is a modern shell interface of the computer. And this is the fortune program for the browser.
Technical Details
I developed this with Python hosted on Google App Engine, and the client side written using Javascript as a browser addon. In the backend there is a database where I keep the quote and author in a table. There is API call that returns the quote and the author in the JSON format. To call the API visit http://quotes-1271.appspot.com/json . This is an unauthenticated API as it read-only GET call, and cannot change the state of the system.
The client side is entirely handled by Javascript, and it displays the quote using simple
Document_Object_Model
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent API that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document. The DOM represents a document with a logical tree. Each branch of the tree ends in a node, and each node contains objects. DOM methods allow programmatic access to the tree; with them one can change the structure, style or content of a document. Nodes can have event handlers (also known as event listeners) attached to them. Once an event is triggered, the event handlers get executed.
manipulation.
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