Thanks for the link. As far as I get from this spec, this is a way of notifying the user about 'system-wide' events that are not specific to a web-page. In my extension, I compare the prices in the background while the user is shopping and show notifications which are seen on the page with the product. A notification shown outside the page (that would look like Growl to the user, I assume) doesn't really help in this case. I'm considering injecting my notification in the DOM of the page to emulate infobars but it is a hack, so I'm not too keen on it.
Re: the decision to stick to page actions/browser actions. I can understand why you decided to remove toolstrips in favour of page/browser actions but this doesn't really explain why it's forbidden to use infobars. Evgeny On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Marcos Aruj <marcos.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can also use desktop notifications: > http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/desktop-notifications/api-specification > But you would need a nightly build to use it from your extension. It's not > included in the latest dev release. > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Antony Sargent <asarg...@chromium.org> > wrote: >> >> See this long thread for why we're going with just page actions / browser >> actions for now: >> >> https://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/f2505dd16a5c9e43/a0127be1557d948b >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Evgeny Shadchnev >> <evgeny.shadch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm porting InvisibleHand (http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/) Firefox >>> extension to Google Chrome. InvisibleHand makes extensive use of >>> Firefox notifications (infobars) but Chrome API doesn't allow the >>> extension to show an info bar. Will the extensions be allowed to >>> display an info bar? If so, when can we expect an API please? >>> Otherwise, how can I notify the user of a better price other than >>> with a flashing icon? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Evgeny >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Marcos Aruj Alvarez > Ingeniero de Software > ------------------------------- > marcos.a...@gmail.com > ----- > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
