Re: [Tails-dev] extension specification

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Autor: Giorgio Maone
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Para: tails-dev
Asunto: Re: [Tails-dev] extension specification
On 15/05/2015 18:14, sajolida wrote:
> So we could instead embed the minimum version of the extension
> required (maybe <div id="extension-version">1.0</div> or something
> like this). Then the extension would know if it's outdated, even if
> the HTML code of the page didn't change drastically, and display the
> first screen accordingly.

That would be perfect, yes.

> My understanding is that Tor Browser also upgrades its extension as
> usual (except Torbutton and Tor Launcher), see:
>
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2015-April/000258.html

This puts our system in an even better position, because most of the
time we won't need to prompt recurring users for upgrades.

>
> Ah, and for your curiosity, I started to type some draft HTML code for
> that page. Dumping the strings we had in the wireframe and adding some
> ids and classes. It's in a blueprint too:
>
> https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/bootstrapping/extension/prototype

Thanks for the pointer.

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