Oh I wasn't aware of that. But is the reverse possible, I mean, can the popup talk to the background page? Maybe something like chrome.extension.getPopup().printUnreadEmails();
On Oct 15, 10:49 pm, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > The popups can talk to the background page using APIs like > chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage(). Is that what you mean? > > - a > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Jeremy Selier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'va tested it and I find it pretty cool! > > > Question: > > Is it planned to have interaction between background page and popup? > > I see an interesting use case for the GMail notifier, for example, the > > popup could display the title of unread emails. > > > Anyway, this is going to be cool! > > > -- > > Jeremy > > > On 15 oct, 20:48, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Am I able to make the extension forward compatible, by adding the new > >> > properties to the manifest.json as well? > > >> Yes, the manifest parser tolerates extra properties. If you want to test > >> it, > >> you can download a trunk Chromium: > > >>http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/(justpick the > >> one with the biggest number) > > >> The programmatic API is also slightly different, but you can just use > >> object > >> detection to try both of them. > > >> - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
