Mujtaba Hussain

The one I wrote in my spare time finally got officially released. *insert huge smile*.
Fetch it from here

So yesterday evening, I started writing a Google Chrome extension for my company. The documentation was easy to find and I started simply creating a manifest file and using the example of pulling flickr pictures. Took me about 5 hours but I finally managed to get a decent working prototype working.

I am being told by people that I might get hate mail from Firefox users but at the moment, writing Chrome extensions in Javascript is much much easier than Firefox extensions.

I think I can safely say that any future JS problems I might have, can very well be solved by Daniel Hall.

I was trying to create a Google Chrome extension for something at work and I wanted to link out of the pop up using standard href tags. This did not work so I tried attaching event handlers which resulted in the click method being called at bind time rather than at the event.

link.addEventHandler("click", callbackfunction(args));

What I did not know was that by passing arguments to the call back function, I was inherently calling it rather than binding a reference of it to the event handler. This was explained to me by Daniel, who I should add, is a very capable system administrator. And now JS expert.