CoScripter - Firefox add-on automates, documents multi-step tasks on websites

   For anyone - staff, student, or faculty - who repetitively
interacts with a web-based application, or needs to show someone else
how to perform a complex, multi-step task on a website, a newly
released add-on for the Firefox web browser may be of interest:

   CoScripter
   http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/09/coscripter/

   In brief, CoScripter can record, automate, and document - in
natural language - actions that you perform on websites. CoScripter
is currently a research project, created by a team of researchers at
MIT and IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose.

   This screencast does a good job of explaining how CoScripter works:

   http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/video

   As attractive as this tool may be for some purposes, it also may
introduce security concerns. CoScripter makes it easy to upload
scripts to the project website, and any scripts related to sensitive
University business processes shouldn't be shared beyond the browser.
In addition, some processes involving access to, or transmission of,
sensitive data probably shouldn't be documented at all using this
tool, even if that data isn't stored within CoScripter scripts.

FYI,

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following was automatically added to this message by the list server:

To learn more about MAGNet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe
from its mailing list, please visit the MAGNet Web site:

http://magnet.berkeley.edu/

Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable,
and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet.
This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses,
prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past.
Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 16:52:54 PDT