Query for gsoc15 - Browser Addon for Portia

[Prayash Mohapatra]

Greetings Portia Developers,

I am looking forward to contribute for Portia in this year's GSOC.
Beginner beginner at python, I have experience in frontend development languages.

I am bit familiar to Google Chrome's Extensions system.

My queries:
1. Which browser would be the addon built for?

2. Would being a python beginner would hinder doing the project?

[Ruairi Fahy]

Hi Prayash.

Good to see that you're interested in Portia.

To answer your questions:
1. Chrome or Firefox or both depending on the time taken to build the addon.
2. It shouldn't cause any problems. As long as you understand the network requests between the browser and the Portia web server it should be possible to build the addon.

[Prayash Mohapatra]

Thanks Ruairi!

Another thing I was wondering:
What all features do you expect in the extension? Is there a place where requested features for the extensions are maintained?

[Ruairi Fahy]

The main codebase should remain consistent with the existing Portia UI. The current system using an iframe should continue to work.
The only additional feature would be to add some sort of configurable options page to allow users to provide the location of their Portia server and authentication if they have added it to Portia.