iframe usage

[Ohad Dahan]

My understanding of https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/how-to/security/sandboxing-eval is that I can use iframes as I see fit, no specific limitations since they're sandboxed.

In my specific case, I have multiple clients, extension/mobile/desktop and developing the UI for each separately is painful.

Hence I want to move all the UI to the server and all clients, including the extension will use an iframe to load their UI.

I will use MessageChannel to communicate with the iframe , to facilitate interactions with chrome API as needed.

Wanted to make sure this is ok and doesn't violate store policies. 

[Stefan Van Damme]

Hi there,

Yes that is allowed on the Chrome Web Store. For example, I created a Chrome extension that can load website content in an iframe. With my Page Sidebar Chrome extension, I can open any website in the Chrome browser side panel. And use background -> iframe communication with a script.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/page-sidebar-open-any-pag/gkkebamcfeaggmcfciekfakbmlgckdnh?hl=en

Thanks,

Stefan vd

[ka...@couponfollow.com]

Hey Ohad, I'm curious, so you're planning to have basically a SPA hosted somewhere from your infrastructure and display it in an iframe opened by your extension? So, for example, whenever your extension is meant to display a popup, it will create an iframe pointing to your server?

It sounds interesting tbh. From my experience - dealing with iframe size can be painful, but it depends on the use case ofc.