[MOBY-l] LSID protocol handler for Mozilla/Firefox

[Paul Gordon]

I've tested this using Firefox 1.0 under Solaris and it works fine, 
thanks!  This leads me to ask a question that I've seen floating around 
but not sure if it has been implemented with the new RDF scheme: Do we 
have a standard LSID representation for MOBY Objects? 

Roderic D. M. Page wrote:

> I'm not sure whether this is of interest to BioMoby members, but 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.
>
> The extension is available from 
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/lsid/ .
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
>