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Chrome Dev Tools have become powerful enough to do some decent debugging for extensions, but does anyone know if it can be used to create them? If there is some
by nswanberg 13y ago
Chrome Dev Tools have become powerful enough to do some decent debugging for extensions, but does anyone know if it can be used to create them? If there is some sort of sandboxing to prevent such things, how much code would have to be changed to have Chrome join the list of self-extensible systems?
- eli 13y agoYou can already write dev tools extensions. Or did you mean something else? http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools.html http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools.html
- nswanberg 13y agoThat's cool but I meant the ability to get an idea for an extension, create it, and load it without leaving Chrome. Chrome already has Codemirror and some ability to store files using snippets, so why not extend that to create things? I realize this an exceptional use case but it'd be great to see Chrome fit Steve Yegge's QWAN concept, where one of the ideas is that a system should be modifiable and extendible without rebooting, much like Emacs (Chrome is so close to being there it hurts, but is likely intentionally prevented from working that way).
- eli 13y agoAh, now I understand. I believe the Stylebot extension lets you live-edit a page and then save the edits. Don't know about things more complicated than CSS though.
- nswanberg 13y agoThanks. I'll take a look at Stylebot. I'm pretty convinced what I'm looking to do isn't possible with default Chrome, but it might be, and I'd guess that I'm not the first person to wonder this.