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I can think of a few reasons. Looking at that page, the extension seems to only be compatible with Crome OS. A pretty limited audience can use that.

Also, I assume this is a pet project of the author. They had a need, and found a way to solve it. They probably had fun, and learned some things along the way. Often, that’s kind of the whole point of a weekend project.

Even if there is another established solution, ‘Why not just … some other thing’ isn’t great feedback. Discovering people’s ideas and projects is one of the beautiful things about HN.

This is a perfect example. I didn’t even know the Screen Wake Lock API existed, so I learned something new!

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It has worked on every OS that has chrome that I have used and takes like 30 seconds to install. It is easier to click a chrome extension to stay awake than go to a webpage in my opinion.

You do you though

[40four]

Hey fair enough. Good to know. But you’re the one who asked ‘why’? I guess you thought that was rhetorical? :)

I was just going off the docs which specifically mention Chrome OS and Chrome-books. Personally, I’ve never really had a use case for something like this.

My only point is, I still applaud the author’s effort here, and it taught me something new about Web APIs. It’s interesting that you can do that at all with a web page!