Nostr Web Client

Well, a "signer app" can have a signer and a client. Those don't have to be one thing, it'd just be nice to be able to click on the browser extension and start typing.

Could also be a separate browser extension app, I suppose. I just thought of signers because everyone already has one and mine contains my nsec and my relay list.

Alexandria has this, now, on the event page (search for an event id, get the result, click "comment" type, submit, done). But that takes up a whole webpage, so you need to tab back and forth. An extension is more handy.

ChipTuner 7mo ago

There are ways to pack up web-pages into extensions :) Like extensions that you can put a URL into and it will display the page, just mini.

Can I complain briefly on the extension thing. Browser extensions are BS walled gardens too. You have to submit your extension for code review for most changes iirc, and your repository has to have a particular structure, Fuck Google btw, never going to have a chrome extension. BTW You still have to do this process to get a signing certificate to distribute the extension yourself, otherwise no one can use your extension. They can temporarily load the zip file for debugging, but that has to be done every time the window is closed, not a solution.

For NVault I inject the UI into the web-page itself so you don't have to use the dinky little popup page that resets every time to click away. I like that it feels integrated into the app you're using. Not all apps work, so I have a toggle, that opens a new popup with the same window, but i don't like that flow.

example

https://www.vaughnnugent.com/public/resources/downloads/cms/c/zok236zuqrydxugsqhkwovurhi.webp

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Silberengel 7mo ago

Could you create something that I can click, that isn't a browser extension, that just pops-up, like that, with the event ID I'm responding to preloaded? Or with no eventid, if it's an op?

ChipTuner 7mo ago

Probably yeah. If it's in the URL or somewhere universal it can read it, or scan the page and read it.

Silberengel 7mo ago

A DOM listener, or something.

ChipTuner 7mo ago

Yup, the extension has full access to the DOM and everything running in it.