Change the way Survol differentiates URLs, not only by domain, but also subdomain

[daflh]

For example, this and this are completely different website, although has same domain name. But, Survol treat those as same.

This changes will make Survol treat those websites different. So if you disable Survol on one page, the other page have no effect.

[mdolr]

It makes sense, then maybe we should add some kind of regex in the settings when disabling inner links also, so people can type in something like *.github.com or just gist.github.com for example.

[daflh]

like this https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/match_patterns?

[mdolr]

hum no, this is manifest related. Currently the extension has 2 options to disable it :

• The page setting : which disables Survol completely on the page, when disabled you won't be able to preview any link, this option is toggled with the switch in the popup.
• The inner-link setting : which disables Survol for some links on certain pages, e.g: github.com links are disabled on github. The list of websites where inner-link preview is disabled is situated in the global settings.

Things that should be done :

• Display a list of websites disabled completely, and let the user input directly into the list with regex inputs *.github.com, github.com, gist.github.com
• Modify the current inner-link setting to work with regex inputs
• Migrate current page settings from domain to domain + subdomain / *.domain.tld

[daflh]

I don't actually understand what you mean by "manifest related", but the first point, basically you want user to be able to see a list of the pages they disabled right? So it must be something like this:

[mdolr]

The link you sent earlier explains how to enable / disable the extension via the manifest.json file, which is not what we want, we want to enable / disable the extension programatically through the extension itself.

But yea basically we should implement it like you did in the image you sent, the user should be able to input things like "*.github.com" (== "github.com") "gist.github.com", ...

[daflh]

Ohh, you misunderstood me 😆 I sent that link just to provide a pattern examples that maybe we might use, but not to implement into manifest.json

[daflh]

I don't actually understand what you mean by "manifest related", but the first point, basically you want user to be able to see a list of the pages they disabled right? So it must be something like this:

So, if I want to try to implement this, should I add a commit here or create a new PR?

[mdolr]

I think all the changes should be implemented in this PR as otherwise everything would break

[mdolr]

I'm not sure if you're done with this, but we need to adapt the way we disable the extension in core.js - master - 230 in order to make sure if someone blocks the extension on github.com it blocks it on every subdomain, but if someone blocks only 1 subdomain the extension will be disabled only on this one.

Should also apply the same way of blocking to inner link preview core.js - master - 218

[daflh]

Wouldn't it be better to be left like this? If user blocks the extension on github.com and it blocks on every subdomain, then why do we need regex you've mentioned earlier. So my suggestion, if user wants to disable extension on every subdomain, they can do it using asterisk, something like `*.github.com*.

[mdolr]

Yes but right now without modifying anything if you block "github.com" it will only block the extension on github.com and not on every subdomains because you've added subdomains in you getDomain function. That's why I think we should differentiate : *.domain.tld blocks - blocks everything on this domain domain.tld - blocks only the domain but not subdomains subdomain.domain.tld - blocks a specific subdomain

Also when the user turns the switch off in the popup it should add the domain as domain.tld or subdomain.tld and not *.domain.tld to the list of blocked sites. Then if the user wants to block every subdomain they can by going in the settings page and adding a *. before the domain

Anyway changes are needed to how we detect when to block the extension

[daflh]

That's what I mean mate.

But there's a problem, what if user wants to block all subdomains except for one. For example, someone wants to block all netlify-hosted sites, so he adds *.netlify.app in the settings page. Then, he goes to sample.netlify.app for example, the switch should be turned off right, but what will happen if he turns the switch on, will it remove the whole *.netlify.app or how? Should we make a whitelist mechanism?

[mdolr]

I guess we could modify the regex to to add an exception for a list of selected subdomains

[daflh]

Maybe we could use exclamation mark ! or something. If so, the above case can be resolved with *.netlify.app,!sample.netlify,app.

[daflh]

Or could be like UserScript, but that would be very complicated.

[mdolr]

I'm not a regex pro but something like this I guess (assuming gist is blocked)

^((gist|cdn).*).github.com|github.com$

In this example gist.github.com, github.com and cdn.github.com are whitelisted, everything else is blocked, You could remove the last github.com to remove the main domain