Re: [crx] Can a chrome extension do this/how hard to learn?

[CGS]

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

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:09 AM, John Cashin <john....@gmail.com> wrote:

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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[John Cashin]

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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