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Pumpinglemma
Pumpinglemma

Reputation: 113

Google Chrome extensions interaction with Native Client Applications

Is it possible to write a Chrome Extension that will interact with a Native Client application?

I use Irssi through the NaCl Secure Shell application, and I would like to write an extension that simply looks for plain URLs and makes them clickable links.

I'm seeing some strange behavior with extensions and NaCl applications, so I wanted to know if this is something that is even possible.

Additionally, if anyone has a more elegant solution to this, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 830

Answers (2)

Mike Frysinger
Mike Frysinger

Reputation: 3072

Secure Shell supports clicking links now via Ctrl+Click. it will support OSC+8 in a future release.

Upvotes: 0

binji
binji

Reputation: 1860

The fact that the NaCl Secure Shell app uses Native Client under the hood shouldn't matter; the page is rendered using standard HTML.

The documentation for Chrome Extensions here says you should be able to inject content scripts into pages with the chrome-extension scheme. I tried it, but it doesn't work. It seems the documentation is incorrect. See http://crbug.com/153245.

As far as I can tell, it is not possible to modify an extension this way. It is possible to communicate with other extensions/apps (see here), but it seems that the application must expose an API to communicate with.

Upvotes: 1

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