We're using them to communicate between our website to the addon, without having to message through the current DOM.
Our website just has to call foo://showPrompt and we have a corresponding handler in our addon's javascript that listens to the foo channel and shows a prompt. On Nov 20, 2:37 pm, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote: > Well, those interfaces are very broad. What are you using them for? > Perhaps there is a way to do something similar in Chrome. > > As an example, sometimes people use these interface to implement their > own protocol, just do display UI in the tab contents area. You can do > this in Chrome other ways. > > - a > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Antony Sargent <asarg...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > No, we don't support this. > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Karen <karent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Wondering if there's a way to implement our own protocol scheme like > >> there is in Firefox--these are the current interfaces we're using to > >> do so: > > >> const kSIMPLEURI_CONTRACTID = "@mozilla.org/network/simple-uri;1"; > >> const kIOSERVICE_CONTRACTID = "@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"; > >> const nsISupports = Components.interfaces.nsISupports; > >> const nsIIOService = Components.interfaces.nsIIOService; > >> const nsIProtocolHandler = Components.interfaces.nsIProtocolHandler; > >> const nsIURI = Components.interfaces.nsIURI; > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Chromium-extensions" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@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=. > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Chromium-extensions" group. > > To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@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=. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@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=.
