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Jetpack Mockup Clarification & Apology to MetaLab
MetaLab recently blogged that Mozilla had used their design work without permission or attribution.
At issue are early mockups for one of the Jetpack developer tools that included design elements from the MetaLab web site. While the design direction being implemented does not utilize these design elements, we inadvertently included the early mockups in our [...]
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 release also marks the graduation of Jetpack from a Mozilla [...]
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 of this article is to share [...]
Evolving the Firefox Add-on Platform
Firefox’s extension platform is incredibly powerful and generative, but when I created my first extension in early 2008, I found a number of barriers to entry—difficulties echoed by a number of other newcomers I talked to.
For one thing, extensions were difficult to get started with. Perhaps the best indicator of this is Myk Melez’s video [...]
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 thrown in: a unified first-run experience. Notable improvements include: debugging [...]
Enter the Jetpack 50-line Code Challenge
The Jetpack 0.6 Contest Starts Now
With the release of Jetpack 0.6 just days ago, we are happy to announce a contest in its honor. The contest starts today and ends on the 13th of December. For the developer who creates the most awesome Jetpack that uses less than 50 lines of code, we are offering [...]
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 find those great new features. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs [...]
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 preferences system and the ability to add and modify menus. [...]
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, with Jetpacks that did everything from Twitter readers to a one-click [...]
Welcome to the new Jetpack weblog!
With the launch of the new Mozilla Labs website, each Labs project now has its own custom, independent web presence and weblog. The site as a whole is built on a standard Wordpress Multi-User install, with two custom themes designed by Sean Martell and built by Neil Lee and Ryan Doherty. These themes [...]
- Re: [jetpack] JetPack Gallery Chopping Off Code
- JetPack Gallery Chopping Off Code
- About redundant Jetpack API's
- Re: cfx issues
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
- Maintain some compatability with mozilla-central after recent changes to the tab strip (bug 347930). Doesn't break compatability with 3.5/3.6. No bug.
- add prominent links to installing the Jetpack prototype to the Jetpack prototype experiment report page; also make minor formatting and typo fixes
- make status bar panel iframes transparent and remove hacks to make them look like status bar panels now that platform bug 532569 has been fixed on the trunk and backported to the Gecko 1.9.2 branch
- Added the experimental report.
