https://github.com/evmar/pony-express

chrome extension to prettify online mailing list archives
https://github.com/evmar/pony-express

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chrome extension to prettify online mailing list archives

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/evmar/pony-express
• Owner: evmar
• Created: 2011-11-10T00:22:27.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-11-10T00:26:41.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T22:17:14.898Z (8 months ago)
• Language: CoffeeScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 211 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.markdown

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# Pony Express

To users, Pony Express is a Chrome extension that hijacks mailing list

archive URLs and rewrites them into a more pleasant UI.

In pictures, a page that looks like this:

![Screenshot of old page](https://github.com/martine/pony-express/raw/master/screenshot-before.png)

Transparently becomes a page that looks like this:

![Screenshot](https://github.com/martine/pony-express/raw/master/screenshot-after.png)

Concretely, Pony Express is comprised of three modules:

1. A JavaScript library that takes JSON data describing mailing list

   content and creates a more pleasant UI for browsing it: a threaded

   view, shortcut keys for navigation.  This lives in `ui/`.  This is

   pretty preliminary at the moment.

2. A JavaScript library that extracts mailing list data out of

   Pipermail archive pages (like from the screenshot above).  This

   lives in `pipermail/`.  Conceptually, other archives (like hypermail)

   could plug in as well.

3. A Chrome extension that grabs URLs, feeds them into module 2, then

   feeds that into module 1.