Archive for June, 2010
Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.5
The Jetpack team is excited to announce the launch of Jetpack SDK 0.5. This latest release offers more APIs for you to build add-ons with. For instance, one of the new APIs enables you to access tab information and control tab-related actions, e.g. opening/closing tabs. The new APIs in Jetpack SDK are: Tabs API – [...]
What Add-ons Builder APIs are important to you?
This survey is a great opportunity to provide feedback on what APIs you need for your add-on development efforts. We’ve compiled a list of possible APIs that could be built into the Add-ons Builder SDK, and we’d like to know which ones you feel are most important. You can also comment on current APIs and [...]
“Extending Firefox with Jetpack” Presentation @ VanJS
Having recently given a presentation on Jetpack to the VanJS meet-up group, I thought I would share my slides from the event and review some of the questions that were asked. The main goal of my presentation was to shine a light on Jetpack’s evolution and hopefully encourage JavaScript developers to think about how they [...]
Jetpack Survey Report
Survey 2 – “Developer Tools and Needs” In trying to understand the make-up of our developer community it is important to know about the tools folks use, the developer platforms they work with, and the areas developers need more help. In this survey we dug a bit deeper into development platforms you prefer and your [...]
Jetpack 0.4 Extension Example – MailPing
With the release of Jetpack SDK 0.4, developers have a variety of new APIs at their disposal. The following example will show you how to use the Page Worker and Widget APIs in your add-on code, but also have a look at the other notable APIs released in 0.4 – Simple Storage and Private Browsing. [...]
Jetpack Survey Report
Survey 1 – “Jetpack-based Add-on Development” Over the past few weeks we have posted two surveys in effort to understand the add-on developer community more completely. The results for the first survey are in and we are ready to share them with the community. In this survey we wanted to find out what level of [...]
