Browser Extensions Standard

Re:Browser Extensions Standard by Nyrox on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:00AM (#14899414)

Cute idea, but I will eat a broom before this actually becomes reality.

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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by jchw on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:56AM (#14899735)

WebExtensions are already supported by Firefox and Edge. Today.

Hard to believe, but extensions are standardizing without any real standardization body, just kind of... on their own. This is just a formalization of that.

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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by gcp on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:06AM (#14899443)

Not sure what you mean by this, but this (like most modern web standards, and I'm not even sure of the modern part) is just documenting what the implementations are already doing.

Mozilla and Microsoft are specifically re-implementing the Chrome Extensions API, and documenting it.

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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by _nalply on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:45AM (#14899661)

Eating a broom is a German saying: «Eher fress ich einen Besen...!».

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Re:Browser Extensions Standard by WaltPurvis on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:50AM (#14900089)

Thank you! I was just about to ask about the origins of that phrase (which I've never heard before).

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