This is a good idea, but at the same time it shows a weakness of chrome extensions' design. If there is a need for such a skeleton app, then the technology stack should have it built in - so that a template is not needed at all!
Really? I see it more as a framework, similar to any other language's or technology's. To make a bit of a reaching analogy, I don't think HTML is weak just because Twitter's Bootstrap is useful. If you want to roll your own solution every time, have at it. But if you want to have a great starting point, this looks like it could help speed things up.
That's not a good analogy. With chrome extension you (almost) always need a background.html, background.js, popup.html, etc. Perhaps chrome extensions would be better if you started by defining a class or writing functions without unnecessary html tags and files. This is a bit different than html and bootstrap where you often dont need most of the framework.
In a way, you're both right. Chrome Extension development is far more difficult to get started in than it should be. The documentation is lax at best and it's only starting to heat up, and the trouble one can have with Chrome having to be restarted all the time for the changes to take effect on Ubuntu (and maybe other OSs, I don't know) is highly discouraging. On the other hand, you really don't need anything I put together in order to develop an extension, but it's useful for getting off the ground faster.
Thank you for implementing an annoying pop-out utility box directly over the vertical scrollbar.
EDIT: Upon refresh, this problem disappeared. Odd :/
That's actually Google's template, I'm sorry about that. I am told they're "working on it" thought I cannot understand why it would take them so long to fix a float. The blog is hosted on Blogger.com, and the default template does this while on the home page, but when you enter the article itself, it gets fixed.
Weird, such an irritating bug when your scroll-wheel is broken (like mine is!). I haven't checked out Blogger for ages though, so apologies, I thought it was a custom template!
It's horribly irritating, I agree, but Google gives one the choice of picking the new "dynamic" template that's active there now, or old templates of which each and every one looks like it came from 2003.
A nice contribution. However, Site Advisor considers this web site to be a risky site.
I had no idea! Thanks for the heads up, I have contacted SiteAdvisor's support about the issue.