Plugin Wanted

[gfish]

Does anyone know if a Firefox plugin exists that will translate certain characters into their lower ascii equivelents on copy? Fancy quotes to ", em dashes to --, elipses to ..., etc. I'm tired of pasting text filled with errors, and people don't seem to be giving up these typographic excesses.

Comments

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

Some programs allow you to "Paste as text" and do that conversion. But I haven't seen a plugin to do it.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

I just dropped in LeetKey (http://leetkey.mozdev.org/) to get ROT13 support; it doesn't look like it supports what you're asking for out of the box, but it provides the right framework to do so.

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

I would argue that such a thing should be an optional feature of the browser and shouldn't need a plugin. I find it hard to imagine that it's *more* common to deliberately want to paste advanced typography into an edit box on a web form.

But since it's not a browser feature, I agree that this would make an AWESOME plug in!

I'd like to see it rolled up with other features to make filling out web forms easier. I've got about three other features I'd like to see implemented in that realm, and could probably imagine others if I sat and thought about it.

Too bad I don't have time to code this kind of thing up myself.