I am currently making an extension, and I hope I could get some
practical advice on feasibility :
I want my extension to go fetch/load a local folder of custom homescreen
thumbnails(top-sites), and then replace the auto-generated thumbnails in
the homescreen with those it loaded.
The extension would be able to read the associated domain names of the
thumbnails and then replace them accordingly.
(e.g :Pinned Url : youtube.com/anything : Ok so it’s YouTube : then replace the thumbnail with “Custom_Youtube_Thumbnail.png”)
Does that seems possible to you ? (Before I dive in head first)
I saw that the top-sites API is not quite available
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246693 but maybe I’m wrong.
Extra : My extension is switching themes (like this :
https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/theme-switcher ).
Would it be possible to switch the thumbnails accordingly
(Custom_Youtube_Thumbnail_light.png > Custom_Youtube_Thumbnail_dark.png)
as i’ve made a version for each.
Would be a pleasure to hear your opinion on this, or just pointing
useful resources to me,
I’m not asking for a perfectly baked solution.
Hope I’ve been concise.
Thanks for reading me !
Very nice idea you had.
But In short: no possible.
Main problem is that you cannot inject and manipulate on the homepage which is a built in browser tab.
"You cannot inject code into any of the browser's built-in pages, such as: about:debugging, about:addons, or the page that opens when you open a new empty tab."
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/executeScript
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I am creating a cocoa web browser using WKWebView and Swift. Like most browsers, they have extensions or plugins. I want to implement the same thing in my web browser. I came across CFPlugin. I want to use this feature but I do not know how. It would be good if you give a sample application.
I haven't tried anything because I don't know what to do
This is how I want my extension to look like
myExtension.bundle/
info.plist
scripts1.js
popoverview.xib
popoverview.swift
script2.js
popuppage.html
image.png
popuppage.css
I want to know how to read the files in the bundle
Thanks!
After a few minutes of trying I found the answer
Bundles are considered as Directories
so you can do something like this
MyBundle.bundle/Contents/Info.plist
MyBundle.bundle/Contents/Resources/MyView.xib
Is it possible to make a preview from an url, grabbing all the information such as title, relevant texts and images. Is there any plugins I can use readily?
See this Native android plugin
You can do this way :
1)Create a user at https://www.linkpreview.net
2)Generate an Access Key.
3)From your code call
http://api.linkpreview.net/?key=<Your_API_KEY_From_Step_2>&q=https://www.google.com
It returns the meta tags in JSON as below :
{"title":"Google","description":"Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.","image":"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images\/branding\/googlelogo\/1x\/googlelogo_white_background_color_272x92dp.png","url":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/"}
4) Use it in flutter widget to create a preview.
Hope I'm not late to answer this question, There is a plugin for link with previews Rich link preview
Currently, there is not an open source library for flutter providing these meta tags for a website.
There is a temporal solution, using these freemium APIs for getting this information. The main drawback is that the requests are limited before paying.
I know I'm a bit late but I found a solution for that.
The comment of Sudip might work but if you have a lot of preview to generate, you will have to subscribe and pay..
I couldn't use the library rich_link_preview because of some depency issues (it requires http < 1.12.0).
So I had to do it myself. Writting the complete answer in this comment would be too long so I'll tell you how I did it.
I followed this youtube tutorial. If you are too lazy to watch the entire video you can look at his Github Repo. It worked for me and it is not too long (there are only 2 relevant files):
lib/link_preview.dart
lib/helper/fetch_preview.dart
I am attempting to write a program that looks at the current browser you have open, goes through each tab, and copies and pastes each page's url into a notepad file.
I have no issue with writing the file; my main concern is that I can't find anything in any language that can look at the browser, sift through the tabs, and scrape the url.
Does anyone know if this would be possible, any code that might be able to help (in any language), or if something like this exists? I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction.
The software I was looking for did not exist, so I created it. It's a chrome extension called Raincheck
i have to create a product presentation tool that runs offline on an ipad.
i have a program wirtten in c# to create a presentation and this program has an export function, this export function creates a whole little homepage (only html and javascript) with the product slider - everything works fine, also the online presentation is perfect.
but the capital problem is, how could i run this offline on the ipad?
what i already tried:
- put the scripts to dropbox and tried to start index.html on ipad (the local links doesnt work)
- i tried to chache the whole page, but that was too much for caching..
there is also one solution i would prefer -> phonegap, but there i see the problem with creating the app... the c# programm should prepare everything, so the clients should take this exported file/files or direcotry and but it anywhere and the ipad should run this presentation offline.
thanks guys
You can try to make a simple app with UIWebView inside and load your local resources into this UIWebView.
Here are some similar questions on how to make it:
First
Second
Third
The way your clients are able to add the presentation files might be using iTunes File Sharing. And you can get these files from Documents directory
Hope this will help.
I am attempting to embed Youtube videos into some of the infowindows in the following KML file:
http://www.jonangfoundation.org/files/newdef.kml .
The videos show up fine on Google Earth and KML Builder, but on this page they do not show up at all:
http://www.jonangfoundation.org/taktentest
Anyone know what could be keeping them from showing up?
Unfortunately your 'test' page does not load - Page Not Found error.
However, I think you need to set the correct MIME type for .kml files. Your newdef.kml is presented in my browser window as XML rather than downloaded as a .kml file. That might be your problem, it is hard to tell with nothing else to go on. check out this link for details about setting the right MIME
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kml_tut#kml_server
Edit: I am not sure what is going on. Your KML code looks okay to me, and I see you have tried a few different approaches, none of which appear to work. I suggest you visit this SO question, as it's answer is something you could do to make it work.
Basically, you override the default behaviour when a placemark gets clicked, and allow iframes and javascript to be used in the balloon. It is the original way of getting around your problem (however I thought it was fixed in recent version of the plug-in. Maybe not?)
I believe your content is being scrubbed. See link for description and possible work around.
https://developers.google.com/earth/documentation/balloons#scrubbing