Safari 5 Extension: Ostrich - A Twitter Client

ostrichapp.com

21 points·jeromegn··11 comments

Hey HN, I'd love it if you could give me feedback on my first little app. I did this on my own as a pet project. At some point it reached an acceptable state of stability and usability, therefore I launched it. It's a MVP for sure.

It's a pretty cool extension! Altho the way you handle new tweets (or replies for that matter) is too slow in loading. Is there no other way than to load in a remote webpage on ostrichapp.com to get the new message window?

At first, I was loading the new tweet form inline. But since the client's code need to be injected in every webpage, because that's all I can do with the Safari Extension API, then I couldn't put the form inline.

Here's why: I figured any malicious site owner could add some javascript code to submit the form with any text they want. Therefore any website could tweet something in your name. This is really bad, so I took this approach instead.

"Tweet This Page". Smart.

Absolutely agree. Much easier to tweet a page WITHIN Safari rather than copy the URL, move over to a Twitter app, then post it. Great feature, for sure.

Sweet...nice use of the extensions for a useful Safari add-on.

this is awesome. google chrome version please. :)

(if that isn't possible - how come?)

I've been working on one in my spare time, I'm working on a big update for this week. Is this what you're looking for? https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aflgiainmfefihhn...

yep! brilliant. do a "review my startup" when you launch the big update.

yeah, in the new update I'm making sure that you can still tweet away if you have an unstable connection (as is the case with laptop users)

Can I get a plug-in for IE6?

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