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John Cashin  
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 More options Aug 17 2012, 10:09 pm
From: John Cashin <john.cas...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Aug 17 2012 10:09 pm
Subject: Can a chrome extension do this/how hard to learn?
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Hi,

I know nothing about chrome extensions but it seems like the place to start
for what I'm looking to do.

I would like to highlight the text on a webpage and have a search run on a
price tracking website that would populate a popup with pricing information
regarding the highlighted text.  that's it!  it sounds simple to me but I
have no idea what the implementation would look like and how much work I'm
looking at to create something like this.  I have limited programming
experience (VB/c#) and don't know where to start with a project like this.

Thanks!


 
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 More options Aug 19 2012, 3:48 pm
From: CGS <cgsmcml...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:48:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [crx] Can a chrome extension do this/how hard to learn?
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Hi,

I would start with some basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (
http://www.w3schools.com/). Once that is understood, I would start reading
about Chrome/Chromium extensions (
http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted.html). Finally, I would
browse through some examples from
http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/samples.html. That is all you need
to know. Don't worry, it's not so hard, but it may take you a while to get
a grip on the things.

To do that project, you need just to know about content scripts and event
serialization in JavaScript (of course, beside HTML and CSS for your popup
to look nice ;) ).

It is also recommended to have a look at DOM (from W3Schools - don't worry,
it's JavaScript mainly there with specific instructions how to
create/access/modify/destroy dynamically the elements from a HTML page).
Further reading: AJAX and jQuery.

That's all, I think. Good luck!

CGS


 
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 More options Aug 19 2012, 3:53 pm
From: John Cashin <john.cas...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
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Thank you for the info.  Luckily I already know the basics of HTML/CSS and
even a *little* javascript so I suppose I'll continue on to where you
recommend going next.  Thanks!


 
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