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BTW, has anyone actually seen an extension using the experimental sidebar API in the wild?

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.sideba...

I've been waiting for a bookmarks sidebar (which I habitually use as a reading queue in other browsers).

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I wrote my own extension to place a reading list of URLs in the sidebar.

I was sick of having 50+ tabs open, so now I can click on a link or press a button on a window to add it to the stack.

I would say that I am going to release it soon, but I have said that about a dozen other mini-apps that I use myself and have yet to release :)

follow me on github if you want notification of when I do release it: http://github.com/nikcub

(and btw, I have yet to add any of my chrome extensions to the web directory. they are all self-hosted, including the updater, and they have thousands of users. chrome users are pretty good about going out on the web to find extensions)

You're not allowed to submit extensions/apps that use the experimental APIs.

Right, but what's to stop you from publishing one on your personal blog? I googled for people playing around with it and came up more or less empty-handed. Or is extension install non-trivial if you're not going through the web catalog? How do extension authors test their work?

I've written only apps for Chrome, not extensions, but the process is nearly identical. If you go to Wrench > Tools > Extensions you can load the directory you're working in. I suppose you can self-publish extensions with the experimental APIs but I doubt many people play around with chrome.experimental. I played around with chrome.experimental.tts a bit, but not knowing if the feature will be killed or promoted is reason enough not to waste too much of your time.

I started a few months ago but at the time there was no way to change the width so it didn't end up being useful. I've been meaning to check if this has changed since then or not.

There's this guy, who I think is doing tree tabs:

http://code.google.com/p/sidewise/

Is this really the Chrome implementation of a sidebar?

Looks to me more like a floating secondary window which continually tries to dock to the main Chrome frame.

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