On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:19 PM, FreakMind <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to develop a speed-dial extension, like what Opera has > built in, but I'm having a couple of difficulties. > I'm not deeply familiar with Opera's speed dial. How is it different from Chrome's buit-in new tab page? The first problem I came across was trying to save the website > information. The only solution I could find on the Internet was to use > cookies, but I don't want to rely on them as I want the information to > exist independently of the browser history. You can use HTML5 local storage (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/). The other problem I have is to get a preview from the web site. > http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-captureVisibleTab <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-captureVisibleTab> > For both problems, I tried reading Chrome's Most Visited/Recently > Closed source code and figure out how it does it, but I'm completely > lost as I started with JavaScript and CSS a couple of days ago. > Reading that source is not going to help you since writing an extension requires different techniques from writing Chrome itself. In general, you might want to back up and start from the beginning: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html Good luck! - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
