Minor Feathercoin Client Update
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The Windows Feathercoin client has been updated to properly handle feathercoin: URLs. This is a minor update and can safely be ignored. Download the client from the home page of this website.
This update allows the following HTML to be supported by the Feathercoin client.
[code]Donate Here[/code]
The above HTML will open the client and populate the address, amount and label fields. The amount and label are optional.
UKMark created the following page to support creation of donation buttons for web developers.
[url=http://www.feathercoin.com/buttongen/]Donation Button Generator[/url]
Mark has also extended CoinWidget to create a Feathercoin donation widget for websites. This is a bit fancier than the last page but requires a bit of coding on the users part. You can get the code for the widget from Github linked below.
[url=https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget]https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget[/url]
You can find an example of the Feathercoin donation widget below.
[url=http://host.feathercoin.com/feathercoinwidget/]FeathercoinWidget Demo[/url]
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Awesome, great to see we finally have a donate system. Great job :) I assume this is is going to be reachable through our tools menu? Maybe a sub-menu in tools called “Merchant tools” or something?
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[quote name=“aysyr” post=“29299” timestamp=“1380284116”]
Awesome, great to see we finally have a donate system. Great job :) I assume this is is going to be reachable through our tools menu? Maybe a sub-menu in tools called “Merchant tools” or something?
[/quote]I will add it to the tools menu :) I have updated the original message to add in UKMark’s Feathercoin widget. He has been working on tools with the view of the client handling URLs properly.
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Amazing
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This is really great :) Good work Mark and Bushy.
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I would just like to add, that if anyone requires any assistance in using the new features of the client, either in the form of a donation button/widget or even implementing a buy-it-now button etc, then either post below or PM me and I’ll be happy to assist. 8)
I have lots of ideas buzzing around in my head for this new feature and I have always felt it was definitely a much needed part for our client.
Also to add a big thanks to bush for finding the missing pieces of this jigsaw and making it finally happen! 8)
Edit: sod it I am sticking this, this is great news. :)
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“29296” timestamp=“1380283636”]
The Windows Feathercoin client has been updated to properly handle feathercoin: URLs. This is a minor update and can safely be ignored. Download the client from the home page of this website.This update allows the following HTML to be supported by the Feathercoin client.
[code]Donate Here[/code]
The above HTML will open the client and populate the address, amount and label fields. The amount and label are optional.
UKMark created the following page to support creation of donation buttons for web developers.
[url=http://www.feathercoin.com/buttongen/]Donation Button Generator[/url]
Mark has also extended CoinWidget to create a Feathercoin donation widget for websites. This is a bit fancier than the last page but requires a bit of coding on the users part. You can get the code for the widget from Github linked below.
[url=https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget]https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget[/url]
You can find an example of the Feathercoin donation widget below.
[url=http://host.feathercoin.com/feathercoinwidget/]FeathercoinWidget Demo[/url]
[/quote]This is great, but can we get some more formalized documentation about the supported fields and their formats, and document this somewhere less temporal and transitive than the forums?
I’m sure you could copy-pasta most of this: [url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021[/url] and just change a few words.
Also another best practice would be to not target _blank in your anchor tag, but to attach a javascript event that fires a click event on an anchor with the feathercoin: href instead, or does something else to activate the link without opening a new page. The new page just confuses the user who doesn’t have the client installed.
Finally I would strongly suggest against investing any time at all into merchant adoption using addresses, and focus on implementing the payment protocol, since Bitcoin has already done so, and that is the best way to gain merchant adoption since it gives the merchants the functionality that’s required for customer satisfaction that cannot be supplied with addresses. Any work you put into it now is basically wasted effort since in 6 months to a year merchants are going to be used to the features supplied by the payment protocol.
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Kevlar, you started my brain buzzing when posting the [url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070]BIP_0070[/url] info.
But for now we do at least have something viable that can be used by merchants, all be it on a more basic level to that of the above.
Re: onClick event -The FeatherCoinWidget source is on github, would you mind having a play? I agree with you what you say about target_blank, it seems a pointless part of what otherwise is quite a clever little widget, this is the problem of trying to re-purpose someone else’s source, as you are left with the annoying bits to deal with while trying to follow their voodoo and not spend too long fixing what gets broken, It would be a great help if you could/would. 8)
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[quote name=“UKMark” post=“29353” timestamp=“1380301668”]
Kevlar, you started my brain buzzing when posting the [url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070]BIP_0070[/url] info.But for now we do at least have something viable that can be used by merchants, all be it on a more basic level to that of the above.
Re: onClick event -The FeatherCoinWidget source is on github, would you mind having a play? I agree with you what you say about target_blank, it seems a pointless part of what otherwise is quite a clever little widget, this is the problem of trying to re-purpose someone else’s source, as you are left with the annoying bits to deal with while trying to follow their voodoo and not spend too long fixing what gets broken, It would be a great help if you could/would. 8)
[/quote]You got it chief. I’ll have a go at it this weekend, and submit a pull request for your review.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“29355” timestamp=“1380301829”]
[quote author=UKMark link=topic=3798.msg29353#msg29353 date=1380301668]
Kevlar, you started my brain buzzing when posting the [url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070]BIP_0070[/url] info.But for now we do at least have something viable that can be used by merchants, all be it on a more basic level to that of the above.
Re: onClick event -The FeatherCoinWidget source is on github, would you mind having a play? I agree with you what you say about target_blank, it seems a pointless part of what otherwise is quite a clever little widget, this is the problem of trying to re-purpose someone else’s source, as you are left with the annoying bits to deal with while trying to follow their voodoo and not spend too long fixing what gets broken, It would be a great help if you could/would. 8)
[/quote]You got it chief. I’ll have a go at it this weekend, and submit a pull request for your review.
[/quote]Brilliant news!..I will look forward to it…
…And thanks for standing up! 8) -
Great news :)
Will get one on my website soon. -
[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“29296” timestamp=“1380283636”]
Mark has also extended CoinWidget to create a Feathercoin donation widget for websites.
[/quote]Nice!
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“29429” timestamp=“1380342606”]
[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=3798.msg29296#msg29296 date=1380283636]
Mark has also extended CoinWidget to create a Feathercoin donation widget for websites.
[/quote]Nice!
[/quote]Tuck, thanks for the link on mcxnow. I like it. Also, I am glad to see feathercoin added to coinwidget.
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[quote name=“UKMark” post=“29361” timestamp=“1380305731”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=3798.msg29355#msg29355 date=1380301829]
[quote author=UKMark link=topic=3798.msg29353#msg29353 date=1380301668]
Kevlar, you started my brain buzzing when posting the [url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070]BIP_0070[/url] info.But for now we do at least have something viable that can be used by merchants, all be it on a more basic level to that of the above.
Re: onClick event -The FeatherCoinWidget source is on github, would you mind having a play? I agree with you what you say about target_blank, it seems a pointless part of what otherwise is quite a clever little widget, this is the problem of trying to re-purpose someone else’s source, as you are left with the annoying bits to deal with while trying to follow their voodoo and not spend too long fixing what gets broken, It would be a great help if you could/would. 8)
[/quote]You got it chief. I’ll have a go at it this weekend, and submit a pull request for your review.
[/quote]Brilliant news!..I will look forward to it…
…And thanks for standing up! 8)
[/quote]Here’s your pull request, as promised: https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget/pull/1
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“29587” timestamp=“1380435644”]
[quote author=UKMark link=topic=3798.msg29361#msg29361 date=1380305731]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=3798.msg29355#msg29355 date=1380301829]
[quote author=UKMark link=topic=3798.msg29353#msg29353 date=1380301668]
Kevlar, you started my brain buzzing when posting the [url=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070]BIP_0070[/url] info.But for now we do at least have something viable that can be used by merchants, all be it on a more basic level to that of the above.
Re: onClick event -The FeatherCoinWidget source is on github, would you mind having a play? I agree with you what you say about target_blank, it seems a pointless part of what otherwise is quite a clever little widget, this is the problem of trying to re-purpose someone else’s source, as you are left with the annoying bits to deal with while trying to follow their voodoo and not spend too long fixing what gets broken, It would be a great help if you could/would. 8)
[/quote]You got it chief. I’ll have a go at it this weekend, and submit a pull request for your review.
[/quote]Brilliant news!..I will look forward to it…
…And thanks for standing up! 8)
[/quote]Here’s your pull request, as promised: [url=https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget/pull/1]https://github.com/Mark-Leck/FeatherCoinWidget/pull/1[/url]
[/quote]Brilliant, I have tested in IE, FF, Safari & Chrome and everything works as should.
I have now merged and also updated the Demo to reflect your changes.[url=http://host.feathercoin.com/feathercoinwidget/]http://host.feathercoin.com/feathercoinwidget/[/url]
Thanks again!
