https://builder.addons.mozilla.org/
Firefox equivalent. Probably not as detailed, but still.
Extensionizr: Chrome extension boilerplate generator
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#12Are there any tools for building cross-browser extensions? What would be really useful is a tool that can help you build a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and Safari Extension.
Trigger.io released their cross-browser extension builder as an open-source project[1] a bit ago. And we've been using it from before it was open source, and we love it. Saves a ton of time, highly recommended.
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#13suggestion: package oauth support too
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#14There's also Yeoman generators available to help scaffold out extensions and apps: https://github.com/yeoman/generator-chrome-extension https://github.com/yeoman/generator-chromeapp
Nice, I wouldn't have thought of using Yeoman for extension development.
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#15Are there any tools for building cross-browser extensions? What would be really useful is a tool that can help you build a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and Safari Extension.
Genuinely curious: when you want a "cross-browser extension", why wouldn't a web-app do? Isn't an extension specifically something that requires non-standard browser APIs and hence can't be made part of a website?
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#16Are there any tools for building cross-browser extensions? What would be really useful is a tool that can help you build a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and Safari Extension.
Genuinely curious: when you want a "cross-browser extension", why wouldn't a web-app do? Isn't an extension specifically something that requires non-standard browser APIs and hence can't be made part of a website?
some extensions allow you to hook into browser chrome.
while the actual work of the extension may be done in a web app, extensions get more access to the interface of a browser than a normal web app
example: the Buffer extension could probably just be a button that simply loads a JS file from their servers that does all the real work. WIthout being an extension, you wouldn't have the convenience of having the button on every page you view.
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#17Great tool. RESPECT!!
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#19Are there any tools for building cross-browser extensions? What would be really useful is a tool that can help you build a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and Safari Extension.
Genuinely curious: when you want a "cross-browser extension", why wouldn't a web-app do? Isn't an extension specifically something that requires non-standard browser APIs and hence can't be made part of a website?
Extensions can augment other websites' functionality, e.g. using "Missing E" for making Tumblr suck less.
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#20Cool! I made https://github.com/mahemoff/chrome-boilerplate a couple of years ago and haven't had time to keep it up to date with the latest APIs. This is comprehensive and a slick UI too. Congrats.