P5.js-web-editor: chrome extension

[jawadcode]

Please could you make this editor a chrome extension

I don't know if this is possible and if I'm wasting your time but please could make this into a chrome extension as it would be impractical as a website?

[catarak]

thanks for the suggestion! i'm not sure i understand what you mean, as this project is currently a website. could you elaborate further, or include some simple wireframes?

[VictorGaiva]

My guess is that you are saying you'd like to be able to use this in chrome as an offline editor, without having do download a program to your computer. Then an extension would make sense.

[jawadcode]

Yes, that is what I meant.

[catarak]

i agree, that would be awesome! there's a few features i think are higher priority for now, but i've been getting a lot of requests for offline access so we'll see 😄

[jawadcode]

Thank You for listening to me.

[himanshuc3]

I have some knowledge related to making a mozilla extension. I think if we're making an extension, it should probably be universal because mozilla does most of the stuff chrome API is able to do.

[bmoren]

some more discussion about offline access over on the forum:

https://discourse.processing.org/t/p5-js-desktop-editor/9728/6

some discussion points that came up:

• take the code from the current web-editor and compile it as an electron app so it would be a stand alone editor.
• Another way to do this might be adding support for the Offline Web Applications API directly to the p5 web editor. http://apress.jensimmons.com/v5/pro-html5-programming/ch12.html
• a build process to include a copy of the reference that is offline.

[catarak]

i think it would be better to support the offline web applications API—as we learned from the desktop editor, supporting different OS's with an electron app is difficult.

[catarak]

I'm going through and cleaning up old issues. I believe the way that would make sense to support offline support would be to use a service worker with local storage. (#813 / #103)