Apple, the Google, η Microsoft και η Mozilla δημιούργησαν το WebExtensions Community Group για να καθορίσουν ένα μοντέλο και έναν κοινό πυρήνα API για επεκτάσεις των προγραμμάτων tours.
The newly formed team is part of it World Wide Web Consortiums (W3C) and invites "other browser manufacturers, extension developers, and other interested parties to join this effort."
The main goal of the team is to create future templates for web extensions that make it easier for extension developers to improve the end-user experience, while distributing APIs that improve performance and prevent any abuse.
The team plans to use the existing browser extensions and API model Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge as a foundation to create specifications for current and current extensions.
The current WebExtensions system, which is used by the founders of the team, will greatly help the group's goal. All four browsers support WebExtensions, after Apple announced last year that Safari's browser would change its extensions.
In terms of compatibility, the team strives to "maintain and improve compatibility with popular existing extensions and extension APIs" to ensure that developers can release their extensions to different browsers without having to rewrite them. from beginning.
The team plans to use the current WebExtensions system as the foundation for it creation of a common version of WebExtensions that will support all four major browsers. As an idea it sounds good, but let's see what will happen with the implementation, but also with the opinion of the devs.
Read more from the project page on GitHub