Well, in my app, I currently look up words the user is hovering over and display a little pop up div under the mouse with the relevant information.
The original firefox app also had the option of displaying a tool bar with a search box that the user could enter words into and the expanded definitions would appear in a div on the page. If I could add a way that when people entered a word in the omnibar it would call a function in my script and display a div on the page I think it would answer the users' demands for this functionality they were used to before. I could provide the functionality other ways, but it seems that using the omnibar would be the most chromish way. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > It depends. What kinds of features were you thinking off? The obvious > one is to add search engine choices to the bar, but you can already do > this. Maybe a way to choose the engine on the fly would be good. > Outside of that, I can't really think of any other uses for Omnibar > extension apis. What have you got in mind? > > On Jan 8, 3:45 am, Erek Speed <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was brainstorming about how different features fit into the chrome >> model and one thing I thought about was the custom search bars you get >> in many firefox extensions. It seems to me that the best way for >> features like that to be integrated into chrome is through the >> omnibar. It has a pretty ambitious name after all. >> >> It seems like direct control over the omnibar would be tricky due to >> the browser native features that interact with it already. >> >> An alternative would be to allow extensions to add a "search feature" >> to the omnibar which in most cases would run a script in the >> background page (or content script if that makes more sense.) I don't >> know specifically, but I feel this could easily fit into the current >> API users already have for customizing the omnibar. >> >> Let me know what you think (or if there are ways to do this already >> that I missed.) > > -- > 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. > > > >
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