It isn't a lot of work, whatever you can do with GreaseMonkey, you can do almost all of it with Chrome. There are many extensions in the gallery that extend Gmail by simply using Content-Scripts.
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html> -Mohamed Mansour On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:59 AM, FractalBob <ruom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seems like a lot of work just to create a button. I can only imagine > what it would take to implement my Thunderbird add-on in Chrome! > > I guess the Chrome extensions aren't quite ready for prime time. I'll > check back in a year or two. > On Dec 21, 12:39 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe try to execute something like that - > > inject.js - > > var GMonkey; > > if (gmonkey) > > { > > gmonkey.init("undefined",function (api) { GMonkey = api }); > > // Find out the ID of the object you > > // want using GMonkey, reference here - > > // > http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/GmailGreasemonkey10API > > // element = gmail.getNavPaneElement(); > > // > > // Find the actual ID or class name, or whatever > > // identifier that can help you later track it down > > // again, using this example - > > // > > // elementIdentifier = element.id; > > // elementIdentifierType = "ID"; > > // Or > > // elementIdentifier = element.className; > > // elementIdentifierType = "className"; > > // Or however you choose. > > hiddenSpan = document.createElement("HIDDENSPAN"); > > hiddenSpan.id = "hidden-span"; > > hiddenSpan.style.display = "none"; > > hiddenSpan.innerText = elementIdentifier; > > hiddenSpan.setAttribute("type",elementIdentifierType); > > document.body.appendChild(hiddenSpan); > > > > } > > > > Then in the content script JavaScript file - > > script = document.createElement("script"); > > script.src = chrome.extensions.getUrl("inject.js"); > > script.onload = doStuff; > > document.body.appendChild(script); > > var requestedElement > > function doStuff() > > { > > element = document.getElementById("hidden-span") > > if (element.getAttribute("type") == "ID") > > requestedElement = document.getElementById(element.innerText); > > else > > requestedElement = document.getElementsByClassName(element.innerText); > > > > } > > > > Does it work? > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 03:32, FractalBob <ruom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > I want to extend Gmail and that includes creating a button in a > > > specific position on the page. I know, visually, where I want it to > > > go, but I'm having trouble translating the UI element to the stuff the > > > DOM inspector/Developer tool displays. Any guidance would be very much > > > appreciated. > > > > > Bob > > > > > -- > > > > > 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%2Bunsu > bscr...@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-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.
