Vimium: how hard would it be to make a version for chrome on the iPad Pro with the keyboard??
I was curious what it would take to develop a philc/vimium extension for the iPad Pro using the keyboard it would be AWESOME. Is that even possible though? To develop develop extensions from Chrome on iOS..
Anyway I love this plugin and so do all my friends. Thank you all for your contributions and hard work.
If this is the improper place to post inquiries about philc/vimium extension from Chrome let me know and I will cease and desist. Thanks, Mea Culpa. Cheers,
staragentjoshua
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I second this! It would be pretty rad! I think a lot of people would be stoked on having a good keyboard only navigation option!
andrewjc88
on 23 Aug 2016
If things have not been changed, it is in fact all impossible.
Apple does not really allow 3rd party browsers on iOS, they restrain outsiders to use only the rendering engine and JavaScript engine they provide, so Chrome on iOS is actually just a Chrome interface built upon a basic Safari engine.
Up until that point, though, Chrome for mobile in general does not support extensions in the first place, and iOS just not helping change the future.
innaterebel
on 24 Aug 2016
Hey innaterebel, i got more questions.
staragentjoshua
on 9 Dec 2016
Is this still impossible ? Looks like the new iPad Pro (2018) allows third party keyboards
mitermayer
on 9 Nov 2018
As mentioned above, we are far from discussing whether Vimium is usable on iPad. It is that mobile browsers in general do not support extensions in the first place. You just cannot install anything on your mobile browser.
Mobile Firefox does, but then again iOS is not helping: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
innaterebel
on 10 Nov 2018
I wonder if a vimium-lite could be created leveraging that IOS supports bookmarklets
mitermayer
on 11 Nov 2018
I wonder if this is possible in 2018 today with Apple's WebKit WebView framework. I know you can execute JavaScript on a live web page inside of an app. Not familiar with all of the inter workings of vimium, but it would be very cool for someone to build a web browser on iOS that had built in vimium.
eytanschulman
on 25 Jan 2019
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I wonder if this is possible in 2018 today with Apple's WebKit WebView framework. I know you can execute JavaScript on a live web page inside of an app. Not familiar with all of the inter workings of vimium, but it would be very cool for someone to build a web browser on iOS that had built in vimium.