On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Cezar Sá Espinola <ceza...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been playing around with Chromium extensions and decided to > experiment a little with Browser Actions trying to create a Twitter > extension. The result was Chromed Bird - > http://github.com/cezarsa/chromed_bird > I've faced some limitations but now it's working pretty well, and it > lets you do common stuff like browse your friends timeline and write, > reply and RT tweets, and I'm really using it all the time. :) Also, > autoupdate is enabled, and the extension try to be smart about not > hitting twitter.com too often as there is a rate limit for API calls. > > Now, after playing a lot, I have some questions about the problems I had. > > * The main limitation I faced was not being able to open the popup > window from the background page, so it could warn the user when there > were new tweets. Is this feature planned?
No. The popup will only be openable with direct user action. The best practice here is to change the icon to indicate that there's something new. In your case you could use SetBadgeText to give an "unread count" for the new messages. > * There seem to be some issues with popup window resizing, it doesn't > shrink back once it's contents shrink. Is there a way to force popup > window resizing? Yes, there's a known bug where the height doesn't shrink back. I couldn't find the original in the bug database, so I filed a new one as http://crbug.com/26471 > * There are some focusing problems in the popup window. I wasn't able > to manually set focus() on input elements. Also, using TAB to move > focus between input elements isn't working. So, is this a known issue, > or I'm missing something? I'm not sure about the manual calls to focus(), but it's probably related to the second issue you mention, which is a known bug: http://crbug.com/22654 Erik > PS: All the source code is hosted in > http://github.com/cezarsa/chromed_bird please, feel free to tweak and > contribute in any way. :) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensions@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
