content script apis ideas

sdk_strawman.js

/**
 * expanded content script globals, eg 'aliasing' or 
 * bridging some high-level apis into content scripts
 * 
 * ... may need to get rid of unsafeWindow...
 */

$(function() {

	// what we have now
	self.on('event-name', function(data) {
		// ... something
	});
	self.port.emit('something');

	// instead, implement 'add-on' global for the sandbox?
	addon.notify({
		title: 	'foo',
		text: 	'bar',
		data: 	'baz baz',
		onClick: function() {}
	}); // callback?

	addon.panels['panel-name'].show();

	addon.request({
		url: 'http://something.ca',
		/// ...
		onComplete: function(response) {
			// response data is brought back serialized.
		}
	})

	/*
	 * the 'require' case, perhaps we have an abstract 'bridge'
	 * protocol that a module can implement, which handles communication?
	 */
	self.require('notifications').notify({
		title: 	'foo',
		text: 	'bar',
		data: 	'baz baz',
		onClick: function() {}
	});

});

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