Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:00:31AM -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote:
> Forgive me if this has also been considered, but what about using offline
> storage support in HTML 5? In browsers, it looks like this is implemented
> with an SQLite database, which theoretically the Shell could talk to as
> well.
> 
> And does this really have to be cross browser compatible?

How would extensions.gnome.org know what extensions are currently
installed on GNOME shell?

The thought is that the site knows about it when you visit
extensions.gnome.org.

As you do not have stuff like ActiveX, you need something to retrieve
the info. Having something with local storage means it has to already be
known by the browser. So you'll have to change the local storage of all
possible browsers...
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Regards,
Olav