This is very cool, Jack. I l really like the polish of the UI, and in the future I hope we can enable these kinds of interactions without needing to use content scripts. I wonder if we should retroactively inject content-scripts into existing tabs that match? It seems this would be useful for all sorts of extensions.
-Nick On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, jack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 9, 12:26 pm, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, jack<[email protected]> wrote: > > > [Jack] It should be working in Chrome. Note when you hover over the > > > toolstrip AniWeather provides a detailed view of current condition > > > near the toolstrip. To avoid annoyance you have to stay your cursor on > > > the toolstrip for a while to trigger the detailed view. If you want to > > > view the 5-day forecast, click the detailed view. > > > > I see. I think the confusion was that you have to put your mouse over > > the icon, not the text. I didn't realize this at first. You might > > consider expanding the hover area to the entire toolstrip. > > [Jack] Good suggestion and I will add that. > > > > Also the first page after you launch Chrome doesn't work. So you have > > > to navigate to a second page to have the hovering working. This is a > > > known issue as discussed before. > > > > > In fact, the most straightforward way to trigger further action is to > > > click the toolstrip directly. But because of the bug (switching to the > > > first tab), this is a workaround for now. > > > > FWIW, the issue with focusing the first tab is fixed in the next dev > > channel release which should come sometime this week. > > [Jack] Sounds great! > > > >> Are you storing the preferences on the server? That is what it appears > > >> like to me. > > > > > [Jack] User preferences are stored locally via the bookmarking system, > > > which has been stable enough in Chrome 3 to be used. > > > > I see :). So why have the preferences page served remotely athttp:// > www.aniweather.com/aniweather.config.html?You can also package > > this page directly in the extension so that it (and the toolstrip) can > > directly access the storage (err bookmarks, I mean) API. > > [Jack] I understand that I can put it directly in the extension. This > is for the consideration of both timely update and being compatible w/ > other browsers instead of writing individual configurations for each > of them. > > > > [Jack] Thanks. As this is the very preliminary release, any comments > > > or suggestions are welcome. > > > > I think personally, I would like to be able to see all of my cities > > weather when I hover over the toolstrip -- either as a content script > > overlay or by sliding the toolstrip open to reveal more > > icons/temperatures. > > [Jack] Again thanks for all comments and I will consider that in later > releases. > > > But this is a great start. Thanks for sharing it. > > > > - a > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
