KwiClick - Complete Tasks Quicker

From the vault of our lead architect Rich: For the latest version of KwiClick we introduced a feature called search clovers. When you highlight a word on a page, a single diamond shaped “clover” appears. When you hover over the diamond, 3 more diamonds appear creating a 4 leaf clover configuration. To create these diamonds we use two html tags, an img surrounded by a div. In Firefox versions prior to 3.5 we used a background image on the div to create the look of a the diamond. The corners of the images overlapped each other causing problems when a user tried to hover or click on one of them.

With Firefox 3.5 we were able to fix this by creating the diamond using only html and some specialized css tags. Using the tags: -moz-transform, -moz-border-radius, and -moz-box-shadow we rotate the div 45 degrees and add a shadow to them.

  display: inline-block !important;
  border: 2px solid #494949 !important;
  background: none !important;
  background-color: white !important;
  -moz-transform: rotate(45deg) !important;
  -moz-border-radius: 4px !important;
  -moz-box-shadow: grey 2px 2px 2px !important;

This also rotates the content within the div. To fix that we rotate the image back 45 degrees.

  -moz-transform: rotate(-45deg) !important;

And viola, a diamond with all the html event goodness, made with only html and css. Safari and Chrome support these transforms with -webkit-transform so this same effect can be used there.

We’ve received feedback about a conflict with KwiClick and the Noscript addon. We’ve developed a fix and will be releasing it shortly. If you have any other feedback about KwiClick, let us know on Get Satisfaction.

KwiClick 2.1 is right around the corner and I want to share some of the exciting new upcoming features.

Firefox search box integration - KwiClick can now display the results from searches performed using the Firefox search box.

Customizable favorite providers - choose which search providers appear by default on the KwiClick panel.

Panel Close Icon - Minor usability tweak that will let you close the KwiClick panel without clicking outside the panel chrome.

Open Link Options - Added additional click options like Shift + Left Mouse, Shift + Right Mouse, and functions to Save Target to Disk, Copy link to Clipboard, etc.

Open Results in Browser - Open search results, videos, and images from KwiClick in the browser window.

New Providers - We’ve added a bunch of new providers for video and search. On page detection for all video providers is built in.

Yahoo
Live
Vimeo
Veoh
Viddler
Live Video
Howcast

Thanks for your continued support and please provide us with any feedback you may have.