What about listening to tab selection changes and treat as idle non selected tabs. Maybe storing the last selection timestamp to check for a period of idle time. Just a thought.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Teo <teomina...@gmail.com> wrote: > One excellent use case i was thinking about when i asked for the idle state > is making an in-browser screensaver for my Clock extension. This could also > allow for general purpose screensavers that can 'tap' into the power of the > web and which opens up a lot of possibilities.. > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Wagner-Hall <dawag...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> A tab idle API would be *amazing* >> >> On 12/16/09, Erik Kay <erik...@chromium.org> wrote: >> > "Idle" turns out to be a complicated concept (tab idle? app idle? >> computer >> > idle? tab hidden? window inactive? how long is idle?). Yes, >> internally >> > Chrome has all of these concepts. Exposing an API for them is >> complicated, >> > but you're not the first one to ask about this. >> > >> > Erik >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Teo [GD API Guru] >> > <teomina...@gmail.com>wrote: >> > >> >> Does Chrome have an internal idle detection mechanism? (which could be >> >> exposed in an API sometime in the future? :) >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Teo >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> 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<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> <chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<chromium-extensions%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > >> >> . >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > >> > 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<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> >> 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<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. >> >> >> > > > -- > Teo > www.teodorfilimon.com > Romania, Europe (GMT +2) > > -- > 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<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > -- 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-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=en.
