Google Chrome's extensibility
By glazou on Wednesday 3 September 2008, 10:09 - Mozilla - Permalink
they have Darin and Ben. I cannot believe they don't have chrome extensibility in mind, and I hope they have it also in the code...
Chrome API - The announcement mentioned plans for an extension API. Looking at the files it ships, it looks like almost all dll’s. Because of this I doubt we’ll see a method as simple as Firefox. Not sure how the interface is put together but it doesn’t look like anything as flexible as XUL, Boxely or XAML.
I think Robert has it wrong and I think Google Chrome is extensible,Google Chrome has a chrome-resource scheme for URIs. Try chrome-resource://inspector/inspector.html
One technical comment: Google Chrome's Document Inspector (and JS console) sucks up to 50% of CPU when it's raised. I guess it's observing all changes in the current document. But since pages live into different processes, there's probably a hack to do it and that hack is extremely expensive.
Oh and in case you missed that, Google Chrome is localized in 42 (42? that cannot be a coincidence:-) ) languages, the google web site is localized, the videos on youtube are localized (the fr-FR version released 27 august).
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I was especially amazed by this level of detail where screenshots are featuring the localized version for every single help page.
Good catch for the 42!
The webinspector is written (mostly) in html/css/js but is part of webkit.
Noticed that chrome-resource:// scheme too.
Can't find any docs on it at the moment though.