Re: [chromium-dev] Re: Keyboard codes to use for a chrome extension api that enables automation?

2010-01-15 Thread Simon Stewart
to ensure it does what my users expect when the keyboard mapping isn't a straight 104 key Windows US keyboard. Please reconsider. Simon On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Darin Fisher da...@chromium.org wrote: Ultimately, I believe we'll need to generate a sequence of WebKeyboardEvent objects from

Re: [chromium-dev] Keyboard codes to use for a chrome extension api that enables automation?

2010-01-14 Thread Simon Stewart
. Regards, Simon On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Dominic Mazzoni dmazz...@google.com wrote: Hi Darin, Erik suggested you might have some thoughts. In my proposed extension api for accessibility (http://codereview.chromium.org/402099) one of the functions is to simulate a key press. How should

Re: [chromium-dev] Keyboard codes to use for a chrome extension api that enables automation?

2010-01-14 Thread Simon Stewart
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Dominic Mazzoni dmazz...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Simon Stewart simon.m.stew...@gmail.com wrote: The easiest thing for someone who's attempting to use the accessibility API may be to avoid using keycodes, and instead allow the input

Re: [chromium-dev] Tracking the relationship between ports in an extension

2009-11-28 Thread Simon Stewart
Good idea. I can have a look at it. I'm still not sure how to handle the case of nested iframes. Simon On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Aaron Boodman a...@google.com wrote: Can you send that sort of information in the initial message? Like, send a field like: is_top: window == top

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] RFC: NPAPI manifest change

2009-09-14 Thread Simon Stewart
a single extension to the public. Regards, Simon On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Mohamed Mansour m...@chromium.org wrote: Why not just let the extension developer do different versions him/herself. When I download an extension, I don't want to download libraries/plugins from 10 different

[chromium-dev] Re: how to run chromium with 'automation' enabled?

2009-09-07 Thread Simon Stewart
I'm not sure if this is the right answer for you. Regards, Simon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, hap 497 hap...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please tell me how you remote control an instance of chromium without using Automation Proxy? Thank you. On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Simon

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] RFC: NPAPI manifest change

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Stewart
What about different bitness? Most OS versions come in 32 and 64 bit flavours, and this specification doesn't seem to allow this differentiation. Simon On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Matt Perry mpcompl...@chromium.org wrote: Right now we have this manifest key for plugins: plugins: [ {path

[chromium-dev] Re: how to run chromium with 'automation' enabled?

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Stewart
at: http://selenium.googlecode.com/ Regards, Simon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:25 PM, hap 497 hap...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. My goal is to remote control (e.g. load an url) a running instance of browser. That is why I am trying to run this AutomationProxyTest NavigateToURL

[chromium-dev] Re: how to run chromium with 'automation' enabled?

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Stewart
I thought that the AutomationProxy wasn't available in released versions of Chrome A look at the symbols exported by the chrome.dll suggests that this is the case. Simon On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. phajdan...@chromium.org wrote: Then probably you should just use

[chromium-dev] Re: Access to window handles from plugins?

2009-07-20 Thread Simon Stewart
, it avoids requiring the browser window to have focus. Since webdriver tests tend to run for a long time, it's useful to allow users to do something else with their computer as they run. Regards, Simon On Jul 17, 7:55 pm, John Abd-El-Malek j...@chromium.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Daniel

[chromium-dev] Re: Readability mode prototyped in the wild

2009-03-05 Thread Simon
If a heuristic can judge the accuracy, then this readbility mode could be offered as a hint in some part of the screen (top or bottom right, similar to popup blocker does/used to do?). Otherwise there is an option for a fallback solution. Look at Aardvark (firefox plugin,

[chromium-dev] New tab -window

2009-01-29 Thread Simon B.
The new tab window 9 most popular heuristic seems to include my 9 most visited, but doesn't seem to mind whether I ever open them from the New tab window thumbnails, or if I always open by typing. How about adding some score to those thumbnails I actually click on? Or if that requires extra data

[chromium-dev] Re: converting Windows build to SCons

2009-01-21 Thread Simon B.
If there is still an issue about scons startup time (which lead Amanda to suggest trying to get a scons server / deamon, quoted below) I think I found some good news: scons --interactive Added by Adam Simpkins about a year ago: http://www.scons.org/CHANGES.txt From the docs, I guess

[chromium-dev] Re: Extensions and profiles

2008-12-18 Thread Simon B.
On Dec 17, 11:43 pm, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org wrote: ... What UI do you envision for disabling extensions per-profile? I guess this could go in a future management UI? What about for incognito mode? Perhaps in the management screen, we could have a checkmark for whether an extension is

[chromium-dev] Re: User scripts design doc

2008-12-13 Thread Simon B.
Will userscripts/extensions be able to manage bookmarks? That could be a way to have buttons as bookmarks, in the same way as Bookmarklets already work with urls like javascript:extensionFunction(). Also bookmark import/export features and self-updating bookmarks (stock tickers, RSS?) could make

[chromium-dev] Re: UI proposal: Open link in new foreground tab

2008-12-11 Thread Simon B.
Warning: Evangelism for breadth-first, or open in background tab, as the better solution! I avoid open in foreground because the new page never loads sub- second, so I'm wasting time if I look at a loading page. Instead I continue reading down the current page, to try to get through it and close

[chromium-dev] Bookmark Added! GUI redesign ideas

2008-12-09 Thread Simon B.
The Bookmark bubble doesn't suit me, so I've made some redesign suggestions: http://sites.google.com/site/chromiumdev/bookmark-added My preference is 2A, since it avoids the unbalanced whitespace we have in the current Bookmarks bubble. Further 2A takes less vertical space, and mousing down to

[chromium-dev] Re: UI proposal: Open link in new foreground tab

2008-12-08 Thread Simon B.
One way to lower the cognitive costs with additional menu options: let users customize menus. A customized menu gets an extra More... as its last option. (Tooltip suggestion: More options exist. This menu is customized.). Click to show remaining options below the fold, including Customize and

[chromium-dev] Re: Design doc: Background Browser Task

2008-11-06 Thread Simon B.
... When the background task is allowed to start, it will continue to run even when the browser is exited. Next time when the system is started and the user logs in, the background task will run automatically without any re-authorization since the permission has already been granted

[chromium-dev] Re: Design doc: Background Browser Task

2008-10-29 Thread Simon B.
Also, what happens next time I visit the app? Is it authorized to launch the background task, or do I have to re-authorize it? Surely it has to stay authorized. Someone I asked even expected that authorization to follow them between different computers! *Lifetime:* Do we need the start on

[chromium-dev] Re: chrome expierence

2008-09-25 Thread Simon B.
HLS, sorry but you've missed out on some news. The free browser is Chromium, 100% open source. (Google Chrome is 95% open source, surely not free to redistribute, and contains the spying auto update feature.) If you want to have a spy-free browser, get Chromium and disable search and crash

[chromium-dev] Re: About the Issue 1529: port build/localized_strings/SConscript for linux

2008-09-23 Thread Simon B.
with double hashing. Chromiums translations use a MD5 hash -- is there a check in place to discover hash collisions?) On 21 Sep., 21:37, Simon B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For translators it can be very useful to have the translations file as a separate data file. As it is now, I have

[chromium-dev] Re: How does l10n work in Chrome?

2008-09-22 Thread Simon B.
Somewhat edited together here: http://sites.google.com/site/chromiumdev/language-files-in-google-chrome--chromium What's also needed is some way to communicate mistakes and bad translations. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[chromium-dev] Re: About the Issue 1529: port build/localized_strings/SConscript for linux

2008-09-21 Thread Simon B.
For translators it can be very useful to have the translations file as a separate data file. With using gettext, I could fix up the Swedish translation and test it out before propagating my changes upstream. As it is now, I have prepared some half-hearted attempt and waiting for The current