Who answers you in QA. Browser extension

I am glad to present to your attention a new version of the extension for the Habré ( previous topic ), which has learned to show questions and answers (QA), as well as to notify about all events in them.

And most importantly - now you can answer directly in the extension, including the Opera.

Now you can create personal correspondence and delete it.

Many bugs fixed, many improvements and optimizations made.


The most basic innovation in this version is that you can respond from the extension, as well as perform any action. It turned out to be done through iframe. In Chrome, it works inside the extension, but in Opera, due to limitations in its architecture (content scripts are not embedded in pages created inside the extension), this technique does not work, so for Opera it is implemented through any open tab in the browser. This is a necessary condition for answers in Opera, but since sites are usually viewed in the browser, this condition will almost always be fulfilled 100%. They promised from the Opera that they would finalize this moment by the fall of this year.



Now in the extension you can see the tracker, as well as work with it. Currently, there are only two tabs in it - Posts and QA.

Posts - this is so far what is on the hub, a copy. The pluses are that you can mark as read and delete all topics at once, and not page by page, as it is implemented on the Habr.

But QA is the functionality of the extension specifically, it allows you to follow any question - all clarifications, answers and comments will appear in the form of events, and the number of these new events in the form of green numbers with a plus is displayed in the tracker.



If you hover the mouse on the links “comments”, “clarifications” or counters of answers in the tracker, then you can see all the correspondence in the question, and in each specific case, depending on which link the mouse points to, extra comments will be hidden and so that they look, you need to click on the oval with a counter.



This is convenient because only new elements will be visible, and those that have already been read will be hidden. At the same time, new comments are always marked with a darker background.



From the tracker, you can mark with a single click as read all the events of this issue - you need to click on the red “new” icon. You can also stop following the question, and if you select the “delete all events” checkbox during unsubscribing, then all events will be deleted as well.

If you wrote a comment for any answer in the question, but you did not subscribe to the question, the extension will still notify you of subsequent comments in this answer (unless of course you manage to capture your comment live).

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to a question, the extension inserts a “follow through the extension” daw into the page to the right of the panel. This daw is located both in the question itself and in any lists where there is QA.



The list of your comments and clarifications is located in a separate tab (there is no such list on the hub). The extension carefully collects and stores all your comments and clarifications that it finds. In the future, I will implement an instant reliable collection of this and any other added information - in Chrome there is the ability to intercept http requests.

For your questions, answers, as well as for comments or clarifications written later than yours, events will also come - all answers, clarifications and comments.



When you try to answer in QA, you can choose three options, what exactly to do - clarify the question, answer the question or comment on the answer.



You can create a new correspondence with a user by clicking on the folder icon with a plus sign in the “private correspondence” tab. You must enter the name of the folder and text.

The settings are spread out by tabs and types.
Added settings:

1. Restriction of loading and checking the tracker, pages . Only load this number of pages of the tracker for analysis.
2. Tracker rescan frequency, sec . How often it will scan the entire list of your tracker (all pages, not just the first).
3. Tracker check frequency, sec . How often to check for new events in the tracker.
4. Frequency of scanning QA, sec . How often to check the live QA for updated QAs where you posted or commented. It is advisable to set not very rarely, because your comments may be missed.
5. Upload your old QA . If enabled, your old QA-questions will be loaded (for which the creation time is earlier than the extension installation time).
6. Limiting the loading and checking of your QA-questions, pages . Only load this number of pages of your QA questions for analysis.
7. Frequency of rescanning your own QA-questions, sec . How often will the whole list of your QA questions be scanned for new answers to appear in them. Made in order to still find comments for you if they missed out through the live broadcast check - due to the browser being closed, the lack of Internet, etc.
8. Limit the loading and checking of your QA answers, pages . Only load this number of pages of your QA answers for analysis
9. Frequency of rescanning own QA responses, sec . How often will the whole list of your QA responses be scanned for new comments to appear in them. Made in order to still find comments for you if they missed out through the live broadcast check - due to the browser being closed, the lack of Internet, etc.

That's all for now. Update via the standard browser feature or reinstall the extension. Then, if you need old information and you have unlimited fast traffic, you need to set the page restriction to zero everywhere in the settings and turn on all the daws.

In the near future I will deal with the "Events" section, I will improve the tracker for posts (for example, I will also do it like QA so that I can receive all new comments in the form of events), I will vote on comments and topics. Yes, and I implement many other ideas in this extension.

• Chrome Extension
• Extension for Opera ([oex])