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by jsf01 971 days ago
This is a great use of the sidepanel API. Really like the idea and how you implemented it. The Firefox equivalent to that API isn’t identical to Chrome’s, and I believe that there is currently no way to trigger the side panel to open programmatically unless it’s in response to a user action. So it may take a bit of work, but would be exciting to see support for FF in the future.

A bit tangential but I was curious what you used to record the demo video on your landing page with those zoom-in animations during critical moments. I’d like to record something like that for some of my side projects and thought your video looked rather polished.

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Thanks! It's still very much early days for the Sidepanel and the API feels very much in flux but an exciting new form factor for browser-integrated experiences. Makes total sense, supporting other browsers is likely something we will do in the future

I used https://www.screen.studio/ for the demo and past demos, it works quite well I find though it can get a bit too excited on the zoom ins and I have to cut out some of them