tabtweet — a Twitter tab-completion extension for Google Chrome (or Chromium)
I just uploaded a chrom{e,ium} extension to google’s extension repository. It adds tab-completion to twitter; when you type an @ symbol into your status box an autocomplete menu pops up with all of your friends’ screen names in it.
tabtweet screenshot
The project is open source. Here is the code (as well as an issue tracker, if you need to submit a bug report).
Technically speaking it’s an interesting project. It is a combination of:
- the Chrom{e,ium} extensions framework / API
- the Twitter API
- the OAuth specification
- HTML5 (local storage)
- The jQuery library (with a patched autocomplete plugin)
and is the first open source javascript OAuth application I’ve come across. It uses code from this project (albiet with a small patch) to successfully implement the 7-step OAuth flow using AJAX. This was a pretty tremendous struggle as the internet doesn’t think you should do that.
The extension is in the Google chrome extensions directory. Try it out!
