Add sserpolar/devdocs-lookup to Related Projects - #2722
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Adds a browser extension to the Related Projects table.
sserpolar/devdocs-lookup adds a single
"Search DevDocs for ..." item to the browser right-click menu. Selecting an identifier on
any page opens the matching DevDocs entry in a small top-level window, leaving the page you
were reading untouched.
This is the case the maintainer described as out of scope for DevDocs itself in #1518:
A few things that seemed worth stating explicitly:
devdocs.io, opened with
chrome.windows.create({type:"popup"}). Nothing is framed andnothing is modified. Because it stays first-party, the user's own enabled documentation
sets, theme and downloaded offline data all remain in effect. (An earlier iframe-based
version was abandoned precisely because DevDocs preferences live in
SameSite=Laxcookiesthat a cross-site frame cannot read.)
contextMenus, withno host permissions, no content scripts, no
activeTaband noscripting. The only data itever receives is the
selectionTextChrome hands it with the menu click, which goes into aURL fragment.
Chrome Web Store
and Edge Add-ons.
The row is inserted in description-alphabetical order per the
<!-- table is sorted by description -->comment, between "Brackets extension" and"Electron application".