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Ported extension to the W3C Web Extensions API to support Firefox, Chrome, and more #43

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Replaced chrome.* APIs with browser.* APIs and added the webextension-polyfill to support browsers that don't support the browser.* APIs yet.

Tested in Firefox 57+ and Chrome 62+.

Should theoretically work in Edge, Opera, and Safari as well as any other browser that supports the W3C Web Extensions API.

churchs19 and others added 30 commits July 21, 2016 10:50
…for "Open Website" button, breaking the extension.
Addressing Muffo#13. Also updated NPM packages to latest
and fixed minor JSLint error in options.js.
Addressing Muffo#13. Also updated NPM packages to latest
and fixed minor JSLint error in options.js.
Fixed issue where full article images use .lightbox class resulting in
the image being absolutely positioned in the top left corner and
overlaying all of the Feedly UI and content. Feedly also uses the
.lightbox class, resulting in the mismatch.

The fix involves removing all class and width attributes from all
images in the full-article content and setting the style attribute to
max-width:100% in order to keep larger images contained within the
article container and flow.
Fixed issue where full article images use .lightbox class resulting in
the image being absolutely positioned in the top left corner and
overlaying all of the Feedly UI and content. Feedly also uses the
.lightbox class, resulting in the mismatch.

The fix involves removing all class and width attributes from all
images in the full-article content and setting the style attribute to
max-width:100% in order to keep larger images contained within the
article container and flow.
* full-article-image-fix:
  Article image formatting fix
Replaced document with contentElement to contain image fixes to just
the article being loaded.
Replaced document with contentElement to contain image fixes to just
the article being loaded.
* spinjs-bower:
  Updated Spin.js to use Bower
# Conflicts:
#	app/manifest.json
#	bower.json
* commit 'a230c07991c8f71e58930d7aec2c2c90267dd535':
  Prepare for release 0.9.0
  Correct missing spaces in comments
  Fixed bug causing formatting with other Feedly elements
  Article image formatting fix
  Move Mercury before Readability
  Add help image for Mercury
  Added support for Postlight Labs' Mercury Web Parser API
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Muffo commented Dec 11, 2017

Wow this is great!! I'll take a look at the changes as soon as possible: I am really curious to know more about these new extension APIs.

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The changes are really pretty minor as the Web Extensions API is largely based on the existing Chrome extensions API. Besides renaming chrome.* to browser.*, the biggest change is the onMessage API becoming promise-based instead of callback-based.

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"tabWidth": 4,
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This is cool! I heard of this project but never had a chance to use it.

Does it actually re-format all the source files based on the style specified here?

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Yes, if you run it at the command line on the project. There's also a great Visual Studio Code extension for it at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode. It's great for making sure all of the files are formatted consistently.

@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
},
html: [
'<%= config.app %>/popup.html',
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Good spot! I didn't realize this file was still there

"manifest_version": 2,
"description": "__MSG_appDescription__",
"icons": {
"16": "images/icon-16.png",
"128": "images/icon-128.png"
},
"applications": {
"gecko": {
"id": "addon@fullyfeedly"
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Out of curiosity, is it required to package the application for Firefox?

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This is more necessary to debug the application in Firefox since the local storage API requires the application ID to function. It's also required for publishing the extension to addons.firefox.com.

"scripts/background.js"
],
"persistent": false
"scripts": ["scripts/chromereload.js", "scripts/browser-polyfill.js", "scripts/background.js"]
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Is polyfill used to provide backward compatibility to certain browsers?

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Yes. The polyfill is used to provide compatibility for browsers that implement the chrome.* APIs but not the replacement browser.* APIs (i.e. Chromium-based browsers). Browser.* support is coming in Chromium, but it's not available yet, so this enables the same code to work across browsers.

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"options.html"
],
"permissions": [
"declarativeContent",
"activeTab",
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Is activeTab Chrome specific?

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It's not, however Chrome and Firefox implement the permission differently. ActiveTab in Firefox doesn't give you access to the URL while it does in Chrome. Tabs gives access to the URL in both.

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