- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:56:35 -0500
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Dmitry Titov<dimich at google.com> wrote: > I think I almost get this distinction :-) you are saying that HTML+JS could > be made more powerful with new APIs, but only if it is done sufficiently far > from the 'regular web page browsing' experience (or model). Say, if it is a > "browser extension" or a prism-like app it's ok - only (or mostly) because > it is outside from the regular process of web browsing that users have been > taught is 'reasonably safe'. > Would this functionality be ok as a part of a browser extension? Lets say > you can install an extension that is loaded in background (as Chrome already > can do) and that the pages from the same domain are loaded into same process > and can exchange DOM with it. This already exists - I mentioned previously the Firefox Jetpack extension, which is literally a "hidden page" that can play with the DOM of existing pages, and even includes things like jQuery and a couple of popular web service APIs (like Twitter and Gmail) for you. ~TJ
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