An unanticipated benefit of using the Chrome Extension Gallery

I've written 3 Google Chrome Extensions. The first two were for use at the Day Job, so I initially hosted them on an internal server. Eventually I moved them out to the Chrome Extension Gallery. There are a few benefits to doing this over self-hosting:

• better publicity - as it's the …

Animating Google Chrome Extension Page Action Icons

I'm enjoying using (and working on) Library Lookup, but I'm not entirely satisfied with the Page Action icons that pop up when searching, or when a book is found, or not found. In particular, I wanted a small animation while the search was ongoing, something like this: .

Unfortunately, the animated …