Closed Bug 1415715 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Add an API that allows a Web Extension to draw on top of content

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
Untriaged
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1340930

People

(Reporter: clouserw, Unassigned)

References

Details

Screenshots is currently implementing its own overlay on a page when selecting an area to screenshot, but we'd like to do it in a more official way. The devtools is doing a similar thing with their element selector and they are using the AnonymousContent API (http://docs.firefox-dev.tools/tools/highlighters.html#the-anonymouscontent-api). Other discussions (like bug 1389707) point to that being the "right" way to do content overlays in Firefox. Screenshots is a Mozilla Extension so an API restricted to Mozilla-only would be fine for now, and would let us experiment with it in a flexible space.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: CVE-2024-5697
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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