Sidebar is not automatically opening when I edit a MDN page about doc-linter-webextension HOT 6 CLOSED

One alternative to using a sidebar would be to inject an iframe into the page using a content script, and host the add-on's interface there.

In general this isn't a very good idea, because uncooperative/hostile pages could subvert the add-on (by drawing stuff over the iframe, for example) but in this case that's not an issue because we can expect pages from developer.mozilla.org to be cooperative :).

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Another solution would be to add it to the developer panels when the browser doesn't support SidebarAction API.

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Yes. See also Elchi3/mdn-doc-tests#230 for some more discussion of that :).

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Following a conversation with mixedpuppy from the addons team.
It will not be possible to open the sidebar without user interaction due to a design choice.

It will be possible to open the sidebar programmatically but always with an user interaction.

Making this bug unfixable.

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It will not be possible to open the sidebar without user interaction due to a design choice.

Yes, very sadly I was not able to convince people that this should work without user interaction.

It will be possible to open the sidebar programmatically but always with an user interaction.

That would be a good compromise. Though please note bug 1343817, where opening it programmatically was rejected, and new bugs for APIs requiring user interaction didn't get filed yet, as far as I can see (or they are just not referred to from that bug).

Sebastian

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This bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341126 is about opening the sidebar with user interaction.

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