In a few weeks Apple will launch the official Safari extensions gallery, so you’d better hurry and go submit yours now. But in the meantime, unofficial Safari extensions websites have flourished all over on the internet.
The current state of Safari extensions? There are a few great ones, lots of cool ideas, hundreds of stupid and buggy userscripts ported to Safari. Last night the Panic team offered an exclusive Twitter preview of their upcoming Safari extension, Coda Notes, which they previewed at the WWDC in June.
Just as we already knew, Coda Notes lets you draw annotations on websites. Thing is, it combines design and function in perfect Panic’s tradition allowing you to annotate stuff with - let me say this - style. As you click the icon a new toolbar slides down, and here are the tools to annotate. You can draw, erase, leave sticky notes and enter text, styled as the website is. Then, you can email your annotations as a screenshot from the extension’s window itself, and it looks great. Both design and animations between windows are top-notch. I can see this being used by clients who ask designers to “change something there” or “make that menu bigger”. Stuff like that.
Check out the screenshots we gathered below. We’ll keep you posted about the public release of the extension, which I guess should happen as soon as Apple launches the Extension Gallery. It’s one of those browser addons you should look forward to.
