Augmenting the Internet with Browser Extensions // Shannon Capper // CascadiaJS 2018

1,731 views · Published 30 November 2018 · 25:30 · Indexed 10 October 2026

Channel: JSConf · 2018 · Science & Technology

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A browser extension can give you the power to add a whole new user experience to any page on the Internet, but it also introduces some unique problems. In this talk, we’ll discuss some of the challenges my team at Textio faced when we built an extension to augment the writing experience on pages across the web, as well as the solutions we discovered for making our plugin low-profile and extensible.

https://2018.cascadiajs.com/

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