Archive for April, 2010
Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.3
We’re happy to announce the release of Jetpack SDK 0.3, the third in our regular series of releases of the add-on SDK we’re incubating for integration with Firefox. This version includes the first two high-level APIs we’re building to enable simple and powerful add-on development: The “context-menu” API lets add-ons add items to the context [...]
Beginning development with Jetpack SDK 0.2
This article is a translation of a recent article in Japanese by fellow Jetpack Ambassador Gomita. — mitcho Mozilla Labs recently released version 0.2 of the Jetpack SDK, which fixes some issues of the 0.1 release such as a glitch regarding development with Windows. SDK 0.2 doesn’t include the planned APIs for rapid development of [...]
The “Single UI Element”
One UI to contain them all, and in the browser find them Your Convenient Life, Brought to you by standardization Each day we are surrounded with triumphs of standardization, most of which are taken for granted. Perhaps none immediately come to mind? To help understand what I mean, let’s envision an alternate world that lacks [...]
Jetpack Page Mods vs. User Scripts
Page mods were introduced to the Jetpack prototype in July of last year, and I haven’t yet seen an article comparing them to user scripts yet, so I’d like outline some of the differences that I’ve been able to discern. However, I will be focusing especially on the non-prototype version of Jetpack Page Mods (JEP 107), rather than the prototype version which was released last July. There are many similarities between the two, and the differences are mainly improvements. The new Page Mods API found in Jetpack Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 107 has not been implemented yet, but it will be soon, so we’ll take a look at what’s in the works…
