I have to say, this is the best twitter chrome extension I've used so far but i falls short because of the bugs and because there's no "new tweets" count (like the Gmail checker). Add that, and I'll love it in spite of its bugs :)
On Nov 3, 12:56 am, Cezar Sá Espinola <ceza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Erik for your answers. I've starred both bug reports. > > I'll work on user notification by icon changes, it's not really a bad > idea, I think a blinking icon will attract enough user attention. > > Also, I've set up a website for this extension > inhttp://cezarsa.github.com/chromed_bird/, you're all welcome to help > testing it. :) > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Erik Kay <erik...@chromium.org> wrote: > > 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 > > ashttp://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_birdplease, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
