From dfc3c0f78662f51490df3b6a50fa3eea8ff1fc84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gorhill Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:19:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] state of development --- README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 708fae9..4f03faa 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,24 @@ # µMatrix for Chromium -[Under development: unusable] +[Under development: usable, but persistence schema not finalize, will certainly change] + +Forked from [HTTP Switchboard](https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard). + +Differences with HTTP Switchboard: + +- No pattern-based filtering -- use more advanced [µBlock](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock) for this +- Rules from broader scopes propagate to narrower scopes + - This means rules in global scope are ubiquitous, i.e. no longer sandboxed + - See matrix as really 3D: evaluation order: Z, then X and Y, where + - Z is the source hostname axis (aka "scope"), from global scope to narrower scopes + - X is the request type axis: `*`, `cookie`, `css`, etc. + - Y is the destination hostname axis (`www.example.com`, `example.com`, `com`, `*` +- Much needed [code refactoring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring) toward portability/efficiency + - Big chunks of tired code have been removed, or replaced by small chunks of better code + - There is no longer a hierarchical data structures for scopes/rules (**major** contribution toward code simplification) + - Thus no need to manage the creation/deletion of scopes (and related settings) + - All scopes virtually exist at all time. + - The popup matrix simply activate whatever last scope level was in use ## License