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  • The Chrome Web Store Now Has a Developer Feedback Feature

    Anyone who has ever looked at the feedback for an app in any app store knows that it’s a jumbled mess of requests, praise, critiques, bug reports, hate, and confusion. Now imagine being an app developer and having to sort through all of that feedback to find something relevant to developing your app. The Google Chrome Store is no different, and developers on the new platform have had the same feedback problems as on other platforms.

    It comes as some relief, then, that Google has implemented a new developer feedback feature for apps on the Chrome Web Store. Users can now click on a developer feedback link and be taken to a form to fill out a bug report, ask a question, or leave a suggestion. These comments are well-organized and threaded for easy customer interaction. The announcement of the new feature came on The Chromium Blog, where Google Software Engineer Siddhartha Saha posted the details of the feature. From the blog post:

    This feature provides a clean separation between reporting bugs and compatibility issues to developers and the rating / comments users can leave in the store relating to the functionality and usefulness of a given app. The contents of the feedback forum are publicly visible to everyone, which helps to cut down on duplicate issue reporting.

    The new feature must still be enabled by developers through their Developer Dashboard. The option is now titled “Edit your User Feedback preferences.” Though it is unclear why the feature was not implemented as opt-out, Saha encourages developers to use the tool by placing links to the feedback page on their site.

  • Google Chromium Gets New DevTools Page

    Google Chromium Gets New DevTools Page

    The Chromium project marches on towards making Chrome the best browser in the world. It already made waves last week when it became the number one Web browser in the world for a short while. The new update makes it easier for developers to see what’s going on in the background.

    A fun thing with the Chromium project is that you can type in chrome://inspect to get a list of all pages. shared workers, extensions, applications and background pages that are running in the browser. It makes the inspection of the various components of Web sites easy to access and view. Now you can inspect all of the pages and extensions with the click of a mouse button.

    Let’s dig in, shall we? Here’s what you can expect to see when you go to chrome://inspect. As you can see, it lists all the Web sites that I have currently open. I can then click on the inspect button next to each Web site and it will direct me to that tab and open the console to view the HTML and JavaScript that’s currently powering the Web site. It’s a great educational tool for developers wanting to see how other Web sites are built.

    Google Chromium Gets New DevTools Page

    Let’s take Google.com as an example. Here’s what you can expect with the inspection tools. The elements tool is the most basic allowing you access to the code that’s running in the background. You can mouse over specific code and it will highlight what that code powers on the Web page in real time.

    Google Chromium Gets New DevTools Page

    The other important tab for developers to check out is the scripts tab. This will lay out in detail all the separate scripts running in the background. Once again, it’s a great educational tool to see how other Web sites are built.

    Google Chromium Gets New DevTools Page

    You can see all this and more for yourself with the latest Chromium build available here. You can also view code review page for the new inspection tools here.

    [Source: Google Developers Google+]