It's a combination of chrome.runtime messaging api to establish a connection between the calling tab and the service worker and chrome.scripting api to actually execute on the target tabs. Tho you can only send json and not functions over the port so functions have to be stringified and the eval() on the tab main world. Since eval is not possible in extensions itself for good reason the only way is to do this on the tabs, so the tab filtering will also be done in a tab world and will respond the filtered tab ids back to the service worker.
yea your right, i have addressed this by moving the api from the window object to a dev tools panel page & options page of the extension so the website itself is no longer able to communicate to the service worker of the extension that is opening up the bridge to access all tabs
True. I've to commit that I'm not a big fan of the classic approach of footnotes at the bottom of the page.
It doesn't feel like a very nice fit in the context of a digital reading experience. Forcing the user to leave the current reading position to get the additional information at the bottom of the page, and struggling to find back into the text.
But I guess this only applies to the classic implementation of footnotes at the bottom of the page. I assume there are better implementations with a more digital character available.
Thanks noting StretchTex. Never heard about it before. Indeed, it shares the same motivation: Allowing users to decide what and in which detail they want to read at.
I would love to see your conclusion about the usage of parentheses respected by authors more often, it makes content so much more accessible and would make a solution like this obsolete.
> Curious: in which branch of English dialect are parentheses called "brackets"?
Quoting Wikipedia:
> In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket.
> What is bracket folding? What kind of brackets is this even talking about?
The concept of collapsing any text between brackets "(" and ")". Like code folding in IDEs but for the web, mainly for reading long articles blown up by tons of brackets. Wikipedia is a good example.
> tried to interact with the “Try it here” section
Make sure to enable the checkbox on the right side of the demo saying "Collapse brackets", toggling it will turn every pair of brackets into an interactive element, collapsed by default, expandable as needed.
In those cases with valuable and informative content in brackets, I would love to see more authors integrating the content into the sentence directly or adding a new sentence.
I come across these links as well and was able to find some of the source code, which generates these spam pages.
Actually, you can go ahead to such a spam page and view the index.html page of the current folder and what you will get is an HTML file with PHP code, which is not interpreted by the PHP interpreter, because the file has a dot HTML extension.
In the script, you can see from where the script fetches the displayed data and from which IPs the data is requested and received.