And Now: The Universal Edit Button
June 20th, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 4 Comments
The 16×16 icon for RSS feeds is pretty much universally recognized by web workers. Many of us are familiar with the little star in the Firefox 3 “awesomebar” for indicating bookmarks as well. Now there’s a new potential addition to the address bar: the Universal Edit Button. The idea is simple: when you visit an editable wiki page in your browser, the button shows up. Click it, and you go into edit view.
The button hasn’t been adopted too widely yet – but two of the places that support it now are the C3 Wiki (the very first one) and Wikipedia. With that kind of support, it’s likely to become a standard sooner rather than later. Currently it’s available as a Firefox add-in, but plans are afoot to extend support to IE as well.
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Mark says: June 20th, 2008 11:54am
Hi Mike! we did just launch it at noon yesterday – nearly 24 hours ago. :-)
There are millions of webpages that now have the capability of the UEB – through all the people that have adopted the code to their wiki and even a WordPress plugin!
Look forward to more collaboration and seeing what might happen in the next 24 hours :-)
Best, Mark
Todd Andrews says: June 20th, 2008 2:58pm
Sounds like a good way to encourage user involvement.
Jay Ramirez says: June 20th, 2008 3:33pm
Good idea, I just wish it wasn’t such a darn ugly icon. It looks like Word clip art.
Henri Bergius says: June 22nd, 2008 10:54am
Nice idea so I already implemented it for the next generation of Midgard CMS.
However, I think in longer run Neutron would provide much wider UI possibilities for handling cross-CMS functionality on browser or RIA end.