Bob -- I think Yahoo! Browser Plus has a similar feature to what you are talking about. It'd certainly be cool to see a "plugin" architecture in Gears. That way a user's instance of Gears only has the modules that they want installed and then 3rd party developers could create their own modules that don't need to be bundled directly with Gears.
-Ben On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Bob Oliver Bigellow XLII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > I apologize if this has already been discussed before, but I think it > would be really cool if Gears eventually had a simplistic add-on/ > extensions system. Maybe something as simple as a JavaScript based > scripting mechanism by which you could hook into certain events, > etc... > > Although this might sound weird to have an add-on system for something > which is already a browser add-on itself, here's my thinking on this: > > If Gears had its own add-on system that was powerful enough... rather > than developers having to make extensions for Firefox and add-ons for > IE and concern themselves with the OS the browser may be running on... > and rather than Chrome needing to implement yet another add-on > mechanism for developers to focus on... since Gears is already > available for a bunch of browsers on a bunch of OSes... creating an > add-on system for Gears would instantly give developers a way to > create browser add-ons for different browsers and different operating > systems simultaneously with one API. > > Thoughts? > >
