Hi David, I think you over explained it because I perfectly understand how installing a browser extension is al local thing and is run on the client side; but thanks for your effort!
So it sounds like MailPlane developers decide which extensions to allow and once they do, they have to go under the hood and add code to support it. I wonder then, why not just allow us users to install any extensions we want that are supported by Safari. I guess it would get messy and cause many headaches for the developers. Thanks! Xavier Thanks, Xavier Paredes Digital Media Specialist Cell: 917-463-8350 Skype: x.paredes On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:34 PM, David Blank-Edelman < [email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2018, at 7:21 PM, xavier paredes <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you don’t support Chrome plugins how was I able to install boomerang > for gmail then? Also, I find it odd that you would create a product for > Gmail that doesn’t support Chrome. Both are Google products; you would > think Chrome would be the best plugins to support. > > > Let mer see if I can help, please excuse me if I am answering at too basic > a level. I’m going to leave out a bunch of details in this reply. > > There are two components (roughly) to Gmail and its extensions like > Boomerang. > > The first is the basic web service Google provides on their servers. > Anyone with a browser can connect to their web server and view the Gmail > service by browser to https://gmail.com. > > The second is an extension that is installed into a specific browser on > your machine that augments and communicates with the web service Google > provides. Boomerang is one such example. But like any other browser > extension, installing that extension in one browser does not provide this > functionality to any other browser (if you install a Chrome extension that > changed the word “cloud” on web pages to “fluffy cloud", your Firefox > browser doesn’t automatically start changing that word too because you > haven’t installed a Firefox extension). > > When you install a browser extension, that is a local installation. Even > if it is an extension that interacts with a web service. If you install a > Chrome extension, nothing gets installed directly on Google’s servers (even > though both Chrome and Gmail are Google products). > > Here’s probably the key piece of info you are missing: MailPlane (and > apologies to Lars and the gang if it sounds like I’m diminishing your hard > work) is just another browser with some nice functionality wrapped around > it. Installing a Chrome extension like Boomerang on your machine does not > install it in MailPlane any more than it installs it into Firefox on your > machine at the same time. If you start up Firefox, Boomerang will not be > present. > > Any extensions/additional services found in MailPlane have been manually > installed into their custom browser environment (integrated and tested, > etc) by the developers. At the current time, the developers do not provide > functionality that lets users install their own extensions. (And even if > they did, my suspicion is the the browser functionality for MailPlane is > based on WebKit, the same engine used by Safari on your machine, so a > Chrome extension wouldn’t be compatible). > > Does that make any more sense? > > — dNb > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/mailplaneapp/GinOWw8JGT4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
