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“Jetpack for Learning” Design Challenge Winners Announced at SXSW
Three projects of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge were awarded special prizes at the Mozilla SXSW party today. Ten projects already selected as Design Challenge winners participated in a design camp in Austin, TX over the past three days. Today three of these projects [...]
Announcing the Jetpack SDK: First Milestone Release
We are proud to announce the first milestone release of the Jetpack SDK. While this release demonstrates the platform’s foundations and extensibility, it does not yet provide APIs for building rich add-ons. The next set of releases will add those APIs to the SDK. This [...]
Elevating JavaScript Performance Through GPU Power
My name is Alex. I am one of developers who helped make it possible to utilize CUDA from within Jetpack. (See the Jetpack-to-CUDA project) Andrey is Ph.D. at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, his interests include parallel computing and distributed algorithm development. The goal [...]
Announcing Jetpack 0.7
We are happy to announce the release of Jetpack 0.7. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. Jetpack 0.7 is mainly a stability release with a new API [...]
Launching the Jetpack Gallery
Hot on the tail of a major update to Jetpack, Mozilla Labs is proud to announce the launch of the Jetpack Gallery. The gallery makes it easy for developers to host and promote their Firefox Jetpack add-ons, and makes it even easier for users to [...]
Announcing Jetpack 0.6
We are happy to announce the release of Jetpack 0.6. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. Jetpack 0.6 adds two major APIs to the arsenal: a secure [...]
Jetpack 0.5 Contest: A Winner
Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest. Given the fantastic group of entrants, [...]
Announcing Jetpack 0.5 & The Jetpack Contest
Jetpack enables Firefox feature development for everyone. We are happy to announce the launch of Jetpack 0.5, the bootstrap edition. This release adds many more features, API, an updated Twitter library, and improves the installation experience. What’s New Boostrap: Streamlined Installs Before this release, if [...]
Seeking Jetpack Instructors: Join Our Community Evangalism Team
Jetpack’s goal is to be extension development for everybody. As part of that goal, we are putting out an open call for people to join the community of coders, instructors, and bloggers helping others learn how to write jetpacks to make the browser a better [...]
Announcing the Jetpack Contest and a Pre Release
In preparation for the release we are launching a Jetpack contest.
