jpd236
commented
10 months ago Do you have example puzzle(s) you could link to?
The general answer depends on the applet type. In most cases, we don't need to know the specific domain embedding a puzzle in advance. But in some cases, we need to know the domain in advance in order to keep the permissions the applet requests reasonable. The detailed version is that when you open the extension, we only get automatic access to the current page, but not any embedded pages within that page, so we need to prompt for permissions to access any embedded pages. We only want to do so if we're reasonably confident that there's going to be a crossword there. This works fine in most cases, since there's typically all puzzle applets of a certain type tend to be hosted on the same top-level domain. But in a few cases, the applet code is copied to different individual servers, in which case it's difficult to know just from the URL whether an embedded page is likely to have a crossword or not. In those cases, we use a fixed list of known domains.
In this specific case, I've never heard of PZZL, so odds are it's something that needs new support, rather than just needing a URL to be enabled for one of the existing parsers.
arelkin
Does the script detect puzzles on page by format or does it also need to take into account the domain where the puzzle is?