First I'll say I have been teaching myself Javascript for a short while now. I do not know nearly enough to be efficient at writing my own extensions. I'm forcing my way through learning by tons of trial and error and modifying the work of others.
After seeing the screenshots of Chrome OS with the chat windows in the bottom right corner of the browser, I really like this idea. The only extension I know of that uses that corner in that way was the Google Tasks extension. So I took that, and modified it. I am new to Google Talk so I didn't know much about it, but from what I read there's a bunch of documentation on implementing Google Talk into webpages, and also iGoogle, but nothing at all was mentioned about creating a Chrome extension out of it. I replaced the link that was there for Google Tasks with the link that you use for iGoogle. It worked right away.... I think. After some size refinements, it sat nicely in the corner and came up when I wanted it to. I was logged in and everything looked swell. So I went on to customizing the theme. The Tasks extension came with a CSS sheet that was for, I guess, the background which holds the actual element, as well as the tab that you see when it's nested. However, in order to theme Talk itself, it was a whole other process I couldn't figure out based off of the information that was there. Plus, I wasn't sure if what I was doing was even possible. It's in a very sloppy state right now, code wise. I sort of stopped in the middle of messing around with the animation, and other visuals. One thing to note, is that the Tasks extension has a full-on Jquery library included. I wasn't sure if this was totally necessary. I guess it's for the toggle, but I was able to replace the Jquery animations, with webkit easing, and it looks good, so I didn't know if there was a way to get rid of JQuery and simplify the whole process. Without explaining in any more detail, I was wondering if anyone wanted to take a look at this , and if it's possible, work on it with me. I can CSS/webkit like a pro with my eyes closed, I just need help with the scripting stuff. I uploaded the file, it's called ChromeTalk.crx. I'm not quite sure how to link it here... I'll try html... <a href="http://chromium-extensions.googlegroups.com/web/ ChromeTalk.crx?gda=BJYJn0AAAAAZpobplxsz29bdatxqR7D- p8BqMOOtwNsnsbeveYN2vvE-P_pSwKkZT-KZNArYdLltxVPdW1gYotyj7- X7wDON&gsc=1FefzAsAAABEtxWQ9d-o5cTilXoY_QMG">ChromeTalk.crx</a> -- 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=.
