This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is Truprint Firefox extension, written , and concerning JavaScript and the DOM, Usability, and Software

Truprint, a photo processing firm in the UK, have leapt into the digital world with both feet (as have all the other photo processors) by allowing you to upload digital photos to their website for printing as actual real photos, which they'll then send back to you. We've always used Truprint, and last night we thought we'd try out this new upload-and-print-out thing, what with all our cameras now being digital. I was surprised and pleased to discover that, to upload to their site, they provide a little tool called QuickUpload. But it's not an ActiveX control; it's not a Windows-specific application. It's a Firefox extension! They do have an ActiveX one for IE users, but they're also supporting Firefox. Bloody well done Truprint. This sort of thing should be applauded. I have mailed them to tell them so. I also mailed them to mention that the extension said it'd take 10 minutes to upload our photos and it actually took two hours, but hey, all software's got bugs.

Comments

Dennis Fisher

Could you post the email address you used to applaud them? I tried grokking their pages real quick for it, but I'm guessing it must be buried somewhere in a page after you sign up...?

Thanks,

Dennis

sil

I mailed digital.service at truprint.co.uk; I did get the address from the website, but I forget where.

Tony Whitmore

Hmmm, following this recommendation I've signed up to the service. (20 free 6x4" prints!) When I go to upload photos there's no option to use the QuickUpload tool as mentioned above and in their FAQ. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Ubuntu 6.10 AMD64. Perhaps the tool is 32-bit only?

sil

Tony: hm. Don't know, guvnor. Firefox extensions should work everywhere, as far as I know :(

Luis

FWIW, Stuart, I believe ffox extensions can embed native code (or in one case that I know of, an entire JVM.) So they aren't necessarily cross-platform.

Tony Whitmore

I've been playing around with User Agent switcher and can confirm that you get offered this extension if you are using Firefox on Windows, but not on Linux. Having downloaded the extension using a UA string that claims to be Firefox on Windows but is really Firefox on Linux, the extension then fails to install.

Suck.

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