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This is pretty neat!

And I strongly suggest that you contact Kay Xu <[email protected]>, who is doing research on sensemaking [1] [2] and berrypicking [3], I think he is currently working on newer and better version of his approach with browser extensions (as opposed to a separate renderer), and you both would benefit from collaboration.

[1] https://vis4sense.github.io/sensemap/paper.pdf

[2] https://vis4sense.github.io/sensemap/

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20080112091521/http://www.gseis....



No FF support :(

Also [The old version of SenseMap is no longer being maintained. A new version called HistoryMap is currently under development ] > site is dead .


As I mentioned, it is a research project, so I would not expect production ready code or multi-browser support. They are indeed not supporting the old version, as they are rewriting almost everything from scratch.

Last time I had contact with them, they were exploring using Plasmo [1] as building block for the extension, instead of doing everything vanilla as they did in the 1st version, which would offer cross-browser support out of the box.

But meanwhile, you can check the code [2] and add the FF manifest yourself to try it out.

[1] https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/plasmo

[2] https://github.com/Vis4Sense/HistoryMap


Thanks . The the site [1] dead linked in [2]

[1] http://sensemap.io/


FWIW, sites [1] and [2] work for me.




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