Re: [Tails-dev] HTML prototype for new download page

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Autore: Uzair Farooq
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To: sajolida
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Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] HTML prototype for new download page
>I have a function called showVerifyingDownload to toggle from the click on
the "Verify..." button to the display of "Verifying download..." while the
verification happens.
>Maybe you were referring to something like this?


So on top of EXTENSION_INSTALLED I would need something like
EXTENSION_VERSION, or combine both information in the same variable.
Sorry for the typo, yeah that's what I meant.

> By the way I already have a function called showVerificationResult(result)

to do that.

Great.

> So on top of EXTENSION_INSTALLED I would need something like EXTENSION_VERSION,

or combine both information in the same variable.

I will set a single variable named DAVE_VERIFICATION_EXTENSION_VERSION.
It's value would be a string containing the current extension version.


I've started working on the extension. Will integrate it with the site. I
will let you know if anything is needed from your end.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:41 PM, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:

> Uzair Farooq:
> >> For example, I supposed that it will be possible for your extension
> >> to rely on some calls to some functions in the script dealing with
> >> the logic between the moving parts (for example
> >> 'showVerificationResult'). I thought that this would help us decouple
> >> what's shipped in the extension from the content and interactions on the
> >> page.
> >
> > Yeah, this seems good. Extensions can't call functions directly so will
> > have to do message passing
> > (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage ).
>
> Cool!
>
> > I can build message passing layer so you can assume that extension can
> > call the functions.
>
> I'll definitely need help on this, yes :)
>
> > Just let me know what functions extension will be
> > calling. Here are the functions I think will be required:
> >
> > - verifyingFil()
>
> ^ What do you mean by this one?
>
> I have a function called showVerifyingDownload to toggle from the click
> on the "Verify..." button to the display of "Verifying download..."
> while the verification happens.
>
> Maybe you were referring to something like this?
>
> > - fileVerificationComplete()
>
> This would need a result parameter as well because we have three
> different result: success, failure, and failure again.
>
> By the way I already have a function called
> showVerificationResult(result) to do that.
>
> > You'll also need some kind of indication that extension is installed or
> > not, right? We can set a global variable EXTENSION_INSTALLED and you can
> > simply check if it's true.
>
> Yes! Here I need two things:
>
> - Be able to know if the extension is installed already.
> - Be able to know if the extension is up-to-date.
>
> So on top of EXTENSION_INSTALLED I would need something like
> EXTENSION_VERSION, or combine both information in the same variable.
>
> Also, intrigeri mentioned that this API should be versioned. I'll take
> not of this and propose something later on.
>