Yes, I think we should provide a standard way for extensions to provide a
settings UI, accessible from the management UI ("settings.html", perhaps).

-Nick

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Alex Russell <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sorry to be late on this:
>
> 2009/2/10 Aaron Boodman <[email protected]>:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Matt Perry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Does anyone else have any thoughts about scripts vs full HTML?
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > I don't think that we should provide an automatic way to get to this
> > page through the UI, though (for example via the management UI). That
> > would impose extra work on developers to make this page presentable.
> > Instead, we should have an (optional) key in the manifest for
> > declaring what URL to use for the "about" or "manage" page. The URL
> > can be a web URL, it can be inside the extension, or it could even be
> > this master/index page.
>
> What about *another* (optional) page for config, then? I agree that
> overloading the execution context seems the wrong way to handle this,
> but as Chrome extensions get ever more sophisticated and begin to
> resemble apps, users will want ways to understand what's installed,
> control the config, etc.
>
> Maybe it's something we can defer. Dunno. But it strikes me as
> something we'll need SRTL.
>
> Regards
>

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