LSID protocol handler for Mozilla/Firefox

[Roderic D. M. Page]

I've put together a very simple extension that enables Mozilla and
Firefox to handle the "lsidres" protocol used in IBM's Launchpad to
resolve LSIDs. The extension redirects the browser to the
http://lsid.biopathways.org LSID resolver. Once the extension is
installed, links such as
lsidres://urn:lsid:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lsid.biopathways.org:pubmed:12441807
become clickable.

This is a bit primitive compared to Launchpad, but means that people
who don't use Internet Explorer 6 on Windows can have clickable
LSIDs. The extension has been tested (I use that term loosely) on
Windows 2000, Mac OS X, and Red Hat 8, with Firefox 0.9.2 - 1.0.

Regards

Rod


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Professor Roderic D. M. Page
Editor Elect, Systematic Biology
DEEB, IBLS
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University of Glasgow
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