Very cool, great to see this already implemented! Thanks for the API suggestions. I'm glad to see that many of the things are already doable in our system, but I agree that some of these utility APIs may be useful as well.
Cheers, -Nick On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > We're happy to announce the first release of the WOT (Web of Trust) > add-on for Chrome. You can learn more about WOT and download the add-on > from our website: > > http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Chrome > > The add-on requires a current development version of Chrome and has been > tested with version 4.0.221.6 on Windows. Some implementation notes: > > * We currently use a toolstrip + mole for the toolbar button and the > rating window. Browser Actions look promising though and we're looking > forward to using them in future. > > * The add-on includes translations to 14 languages and determines the > user interface language using the i18n.getAcceptLanguages API. Therefore, > depending on your configuration, the selected language may not match > Chrome's user interface. > > * Some features are still missing compared to our other platforms, but > we plan to address them in later releases. > > There are also a few things we hope to see in future versions of Chrome: > > * API for managing cookies. We want to set cookies for our site before > the user visits it and currently have to resort to an extra XMLHttpRequest > to do so. > > * API for cryptographic primitives. This would save add-ons from having > to use their own JavaScript implementations. We would especially like to > see an API for hash functions. > > * API for URL parsing and IDN conversions. While doable in JavaScript, > it would be nice to offload these tasks to Chrome, which must have them > implemented already. > > * The Browser Actions API is interesting, but we would like to see > variable height pop-ups. It looks like the current proposal calls for the > pop-up height to be fixed in the manifest while only width is determined > dynamically? > > * It would also be nice to eventually have an API of some sort for > blocking access to websites, possibly by intercepting HTTP connections. > > We would love to hear any feedback or suggestions you may have. You'll > also notice the add-on is released under the GNU GPL, so patches are most > welcome too. Enjoy! > > Sami > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
