discussing parts of the persistent page effect, re #1

[gregglind]

When effect happens

• [ ] 1. IF NOT EMBEDDED, the effect happens all the time.
• [ ] 2. IF EMBEDDED, the effect only happens IFF the pref is turned on.

What effect is.

• [ ] 1. for specific list of words (bundled with addon)
• [ ] 2. on first occurance ONLY in session
• [ ] 3. make them 'upside down' (transform: scaleY(-1)) see https://codepen.io/BJack/pen/sGmop

Suggested design:

• background-script.js => keeps the list of words, and the 'already seen' list.
• content-script.js, use http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-replacetext/examples/replacetext/ to sub in <span=wr-modified> or such around the affected words

• communication between content and background:

  • should I do this at all? (or maybe... tell me if any words are available to modify?)
  • if yes, what words are still 'available'
  • if I saw any words, there they are, tell background those words are blacked out.

[gregglind]

https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/apply-css example of applying CSS to every page.

[biancadanforth]

Note: The replaceText library does not do recursive searching of the HTML doc.