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Cross-browser add-ons are a reality with Trigger.io (Zemanta example)

32 pointsby andrazalmost 13 years ago

3 comments

ecarothalmost 13 years ago
Holy hell I wish this existed when I wrote addons for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. Just the idea of IE support with no extra work is awesome - and the idea of having a single codebase is great too. I tried to modularize as many components of my addons as possible to make them all easy to update but it just wasn't perfect. I went as far as building a messaging class to extend for the communication across platforms and boy was that a hack and a half. DEFINITELY trying this out next time I'm building an addon!
hamaxalmost 13 years ago
Building browser extensions with trigger's tools is really straightforward if you're familiar with Chrome/Safari/Opera/...'s extension api.<p>The most surprising thing for us was that IE extension mostly(3 lines of IE specific code) just worked.(Before that we had a huge black box of code that nobody dared to touch.)<p>I'd love to write a long post about our experience but there is nothing special to say. It works and it's great.
ollysbalmost 13 years ago
Been using crossrider for the last couple of months. They've been doing a pretty good job as well(yup, not having to write the IE plugin is an absolute godsend!). Good to have an alternative though, I'll definitely be taking a look at trigger.io