John, nice job, I'm using this with my email for sure.

Try this next time you build an extension:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/

It'll make life easier.

Also, it's worthwhile installing the full Mozilla browser as it comes with
lots (huge understatement) of components not found in firefox or thunderbird
that you can be easily integrate into your firefox/thunderbird apps.

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Shidan

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM, John Van Ostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Duane wrote:
>
> > Any chance of ENUM functionality? Well not so much for dialing, but I
> > made a firefox plugin to do enum lookups, but I have no idea on making a
> > plugin for thunderbird so when you type a phone number in the
> > address/to/cc/bcc it would do an enum lookup.
> >
> >
> I'd have to know what enum is first, but it could be added.
>
> Thunderbird plugins are just about the same. It's the same package format,
> the same meta-data files needed. The change is the objects that you're
> accessing. For example mozdial accesses Firefox's "browser" object and it's
> contentAreaContextMenu to place the "Dial..." option. In Thunderbird you
> access the "messenger" object and change it's messagePaneContext menu to add
> the item. The biggest challenge is navigating the objects for each
> application to figure out which one is needed.
>
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