Safari Extension Questions

Question

I\'m in the process of building my first Safari extension--a very simple one--but I\'ve run into a couple of problems. The extension boils down to a single, injected script that

Answer 1

Like everyone else at this point, I'm still climbing the learning curve, but here's how I've handled this problem:

I have a simple extension with no chrome and one injected end script (script.js). For the purpose of loading settings I've added a simple global page (proxy.html). When script.js is injected, it sends a getSettings message to proxy.html. proxy.html responds with a setSettings message, and script.js continues initialization.

The most helpful page I've found in the docs on this topic is Messages and Proxies.

proxy.html:

script.js:

( function() {
  var settings, init = function() {
    // do extension stuff
  };

  // listen for an incoming setSettings message
  safari.self.addEventListener( "message", function( e ) {
    if( e.name === "setSettings" ) {
      settings = e.message;
      init();
    }
  }, false );

  // ask proxy.html for settings
  safari.self.tab.dispatchMessage( "getSettings" );
}() )