chrome/common/extensions/docs/templates/articles/api_index.html

   1 <h1 class="page_title">JavaScript APIs</h1>
   2 <p class="doc-family apps">
   3 Chrome provides {{platform}}s with many special-purpose APIs like
   4 <code>chrome.runtime</code> and <code>chrome.alarms</code>.
   5 </p>
   6
   7 {{?stable_apis}}
   8 <h2 id="stable_apis">Stable APIs</h2>
   9 <p>
  10 {{+partials.api_table apis:stable_apis is_stable:true/}}
  11 </p>
  12 {{/stable_apis}}
  13
  14 {{?beta_apis}}
  15 <h2 id="beta_apis">Beta APIs</h2>
  16 <p>These APIs are only available in the Chrome Beta and Dev channels:
  17 {{+partials.api_table apis:beta_apis is_stable:false/}}
  18 </p>
  19 {{/beta_apis}}
  20
  21 {{?dev_apis}}
  22 <h2 id="dev_apis">Dev APIs</h2>
  23 <p>These APIs are only available in the Chrome Dev channel:
  24 {{+partials.api_table apis:dev_apis is_stable:false/}}
  25 </p>
  26 {{/dev_apis}}
  27
  28 <h2 id="experimental">Experimental APIs</h2>
  29 <p>
  30 Chrome also has
  31 <a href="experimental">experimental APIs</a>,
  32 some of which will become supported APIs
  33 in future releases of Chrome.
  34 </p>
  35
  36 <h2 id="conventions">API conventions</h2>
  37
  38 <p>
  39 Unless the doc says otherwise,
  40 methods in the chrome.* APIs are <b>asynchronous</b>:
  41 they return immediately,
  42 without waiting for the operation to finish.
  43 If you need to know the outcome of an operation,
  44 then you pass a callback function into the method.
  45 For more information, watch this video:
  46 </p>
  47
  48 <div class="video-container doc-family extensions">
  49   <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bmxr75CV36A?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  50 </div>