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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