Canvasblocker: Indicate whitelisting on toolbar icon (or badge)

[kkapsner]

If a page is whitelisted it should be indicated on the toolbar icon or the badge.

Spec:

• only the top level URL (what's in the address bar) will be checked
• following settings will be checked:
  
  
  
  • block mode (indicator when is set to "allow")
  
  
  • whitelist
  
  
  • temporary whitelist
  
  

Ideas:

• different badge color (preferred)
• different icon color (would collide with the notification highlighting)
• special badge text

@Thorin-Oakenpants: what are your thoughts?

[kkapsner]

So assuming badges are not optional

You can deactivate the badge if you want to.

I'm not sure I follow this. The badge is the notification indicator

You can also have a color change on the toolbar icon as a notification indicator

[kkapsner]

I will go with the gray icon for whitelisting:

Should the toolip text also reflect the whitelisting?

[kkapsner]

The question is: what happens if the url of a tab is whitelisted but an iframe within is not? And the other way round?
Should the icon stay gray? Or should it be red?

[kkapsner]

Not sure if this only just a little bit confusing or a lot:

[spodermenpls]

Is a whitelist badge even useful, with all the external resources that are embedded in modern websites? This message would confuse the shit out of me, if I didn't think about it for 5 minutes before posting this..

[kkapsner]

Most of the external resources are not included via iFrames/frames and will therefore not create this kind of message (they are also whitelisted as I check the URL of the tab and not the URL of the executed script).

[kkapsner]

I think I will go with that in the first place and see how many confused user arrive. In the notification popup the user can have more information about which URL/domain was protected.

[kkapsner]

Please test https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases/tag/0.5.4-RC1

[kkapsner]

0.5.4 is out: https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases/tag/0.5.4