I have completed the Create an Extension lab, and I must say it was quite a pleasure! I prefer learning with the bottom-up approach, rather than the top-down, and this lab was perfect. We created our “hello world” extension by adding a simple “titled” panel to the statusbar, and were exposed to many of the concepts in building an extension without getting bogged down in the details a more complicated extension would require.(Although Chris Tyler did review the “Tabs Open Relative” add-on, which did some funky search and replace of JS.) The beauty of the KISS principle is that it allowed us to use the extra memory(in my brain, not the computer!) to think about other ideas. Peter Chan and I have thought that it would be a good idea to create an extension that displays a web pages “last updated” date in the status bar, since we have both suffered from reading a web page for a couple minutes only to find that it was last updated some time in the late 1940’s(ENIAC?). If we find the time, we will share….
