Excellent news Erik! Do we have any time frame on when extensions will actually be available in Chrome? Thank you!
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- Will Rogers <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/will_rogers.html> - "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
