On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Maxo<[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to write an adblock extension. The way it works in > Firefox is that a user subscribes to a third party list. That list > gets downloaded semi-regularly. > Will this setup not work with the proposed API for Chrome? > If not what is the best way to proceed to provide the user with the > ability to generically call third party subscriptions?
This is possible. For security, as a general rule, it is a bad idea to include live content from third party sites inside an extension. For your application, since it is just a list of rules for things to block, it should be OK. Just be sure to not eval() anything coming from the third party: you should manually actually parse the list with JavaScript. Like Antony said, in order to make this work, you're going to want to use a background page: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/extensions/docs/background_pages.html Cross-site XHR only works from extension pages like toolstrips and background pages, not from content scripts (though that is something we hope to fix eventually). - a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
