[Xlog-discussion] Re: How about a callsign server lookup button to open the page in your browser?

[Rob Frohne]

Hi Everyone,

One further question...  If this is a good idea, should we have the URL
passed to Firefox, or just use Webkit gtk+ for an integrated view?

See, for example,

http://www.atoker.com/webkit/webkitgtk-fosdem08.pdf

What do you think?

73,

Rob, KL7NA


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 02:20 -0700, Rob Frohne wrote:
> Hi Joop, et. al.,
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a good reason why we can't have a button that
> will allow you to automate the process of copying and pasting the call
> sign of the station you are working into Firefox (or whatever your web
> browser is) so you can see the data on a call sign server like qrz.com
> or hamcall.net, or any of the other call sign servers.  
> 
> I realize having a URL that is hard coded into the program makes it very
> susceptible to changes webmasters make to things.  To get around this,
> we could have a preference setting that would allow you to construct a
> URL, where CALL would be replaced with the call of the station you are
> looking up.  For example the URL for qrz.com for my call (kl7na) is:
> 
> http://www.qrz.com/kl7na
> 
> What do you all think of this idea?
> 
> 73,
> 
> Rob, KL7NA 
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