On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 24, 12:11 pm, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote: >> This kind of thing will likely be best supported as an extension. >> We're thinking through what kinds of UI surfaces can be exposed, so >> hopefully this kind of smooth looking integration will be possible. > > Great. Is Google planning to release any "official" extensions to get > the ball rolling or is it all up to the community?
At the minimum we'll have a number of sample extensions, some of which will probably be useful. We've tried to design the system so that it's possible for Chromium developers to use it as a way to prototype new features, so I expect to see some of those as well. I also anticipate that other teams at Google will create extensions (there are plenty of examples to choose from), but I have no clue which ones or when they'll happen. > Another thing I think would be really cool is > if we could use CSS to theme the internal pages as well. For example, > if I'm making a black theme, I can make the background of the New Tab > Page black too, and the History and Download pages etc. We've explored this, but it's problematic. The issue is compatibility. Unlike traditional APIs, when you allow content scripts and CSS into the page, the entire page becomes the API. We still think we can come up with a way to make this happen, but we don't have a plan to allow CSS in the short term. We may allow simple controls like color or background images though. You'll have to wait and see how things go here. Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
