4 ms·

BTW, has anyone actually seen an extension using the experimental sidebar API in the wild? http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.sidebar.html h

by sho_hn 15y ago

BTW, has anyone actually seen an extension using the experimental sidebar API in the wild? http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.sidebar.html http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.sideba... I've been waiting for a bookmarks sidebar (which I habitually use as a reading queue in other browsers).

cultureulterior 15y ago
There's this guy, who I think is doing tree tabs: http://code.google.com/p/sidewise/ http://code.google.com/p/sidewise/
- ciex 15y ago
  Is this really the Chrome implementation of a sidebar? Looks to me more like a floating secondary window which continually tries to dock to the main Chrome frame.
MatthewPhillips 15y ago
You're not allowed to submit extensions/apps that use the experimental APIs.
- sho_hn 15y ago
  Right, but what's to stop you from publishing one on your personal blog? I googled for people playing around with it and came up more or less empty-handed. Or is extension install non-trivial if you're not going through the web catalog? How do extension authors test their work?
  - MatthewPhillips 15y ago
    I've written only apps for Chrome, not extensions, but the process is nearly identical. If you go to Wrench > Tools > Extensions you can load the directory you're working in. I suppose you can self-publish extensions with the experimental APIs but I doubt many people play around with chrome.experimental. I played around with chrome.experimental.tts a bit, but not knowing if the feature will be killed or promoted is reason enough not to waste too much of your time.
nikcub 15y ago
I wrote my own extension to place a reading list of URLs in the sidebar. I was sick of having 50+ tabs open, so now I can click on a link or press a button on a window to add it to the stack. I would say that I am going to release it soon, but I have said that about a dozen other mini-apps that I use myself and have yet to release :) follow me on github if you want notification of when I do release it: http://github.com/nikcub http://github.com/nikcub (and btw, I have yet to add any of my chrome extensions to the web directory. they are all self-hosted, including the updater, and they have thousands of users. chrome users are pretty good about going out on the web to find extensions)
abraham 15y ago
I started a few months ago but at the time there was no way to change the width so it didn't end up being useful. I've been meaning to check if this has changed since then or not.

by sho_hn 15y ago

cultureulterior 15y ago

There's this guy, who I think is doing tree tabs: http://code.google.com/p/sidewise/ http://code.google.com/p/sidewise/

ciex 15y ago
Is this really the Chrome implementation of a sidebar? Looks to me more like a floating secondary window which continually tries to dock to the main Chrome frame.

MatthewPhillips 15y ago

You're not allowed to submit extensions/apps that use the experimental APIs.

sho_hn 15y ago
Right, but what's to stop you from publishing one on your personal blog? I googled for people playing around with it and came up more or less empty-handed. Or is extension install non-trivial if you're not going through the web catalog? How do extension authors test their work?
- MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  I've written only apps for Chrome, not extensions, but the process is nearly identical. If you go to Wrench > Tools > Extensions you can load the directory you're working in. I suppose you can self-publish extensions with the experimental APIs but I doubt many people play around with chrome.experimental. I played around with chrome.experimental.tts a bit, but not knowing if the feature will be killed or promoted is reason enough not to waste too much of your time.

nikcub 15y ago

I wrote my own extension to place a reading list of URLs in the sidebar. I was sick of having 50+ tabs open, so now I can click on a link or press a button on a window to add it to the stack. I would say that I am going to release it soon, but I have said that about a dozen other mini-apps that I use myself and have yet to release :) follow me on github if you want notification of when I do release it: http://github.com/nikcub http://github.com/nikcub (and btw, I have yet to add any of my chrome extensions to the web directory. they are all self-hosted, including the updater, and they have thousands of users. chrome users are pretty good about going out on the web to find extensions)

abraham 15y ago

I started a few months ago but at the time there was no way to change the width so it didn't end up being useful. I've been meaning to check if this has changed since then or not.