Messaging through the DOM is the best way to do that now. We eventually want to expose chrome.extension.connectExternal() to all web pages, and you could use that to message to an extension.
- a On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Karen <karent...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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=. > > > -- 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=.
