I think the UI should be a single icon initially to conserve space,
but when the user selects the icon, the extension could choose to
display a floating toolstrip (we have some ideas about the
implementation of those too but I haven't written them down yet).

- a

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Andrew Charlton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Could a gleam maybe be a popup toolstrip rather than a single icon - I
> think that would open up lots of possibilities.  You could have
> something like chrome.gleam.getSelected to return the selection.
>
> On Jun 4, 8:00 am, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [I actually created this awhile ago, but never sent it 'round]
>>
>> It is really common for extensions to want to offer additional
>> contextual options for content elements. For example "Download this
>> movie", "edit this image", "call this phone number", etc.
>>
>> You can use content scripts for this, but since it is such a common
>> task, I think it deserves its own proper API. This would allow this
>> class of extensions to interact well with pages, with each other, and
>> have a nice consistent UI.
>>
>> Anyway, here's an API proposal for such a thing:
>>
>> http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/gleam-api
>>
>> Comments wanted!
>>
>> - a
>
> >
>

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