This week I got sick with flu and found nothing enlightening but developing a Mozilla/Chrome plugin to open Word documents online from any WebDAV server. The project is published under Mozilla License. The project is available here:
OK, I spent a day, but why on Earthe would you need this?
If you, like me, often use Sharepoint and Confluence sites and still like Mozilla Firefox to be a default browser, you probably find it inconvenient, that when you click Word or Excel documents, they are being downloaded and opened locally, rather than start straight from WebDAV folder. So did I. I tried using IETab for all Sharepoint sites, but hey, why do I need Firefox then?
Then I tried to set up Flashgot to start Word or Excel with the document URL. I found that I not only needed to recode URL from URL-ENCODE and then from UTF-8, but also Excel did no accept URLs longer than 256 characters.
And, finally, new great browser has been released – Google Chrome. It supports NPAPI plugins, just like Firefox and Opera.
So the idea came to develop an NPAPI plugin which would find system association for a particular URL (not just Word or Excel, but pretty much anything, that has a moniker registered in Windows Registry) and start what is appropriate.
In this version the plugin only understands .doc, .xls, .docx and .xlsx files, but there is nothing to prevent it from handling other files, it is just a matter of changing .rc file and recompiling!
So if you like the idea, just download it, copy to your Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins folder and enjoy!
Or if you have anything to add, check out SVN, modify and commit it back.
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