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Jetpack Updates Moving to Add-ons Blog
As part of the process of converting the Jetpack project from a small Mozilla Labs effort building experimental prototypes to a full-scale Mozilla project making real products, project participants have begun to blog about releases, conferences, etc. in the Mozilla Add-ons Blog. Check out that blog for the latest news about the project!
Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.7
Jetpack SDK 0.7 is now available! The release includes three new APIs: The panel API creates floating modal popups that appear on top of web content and browser chrome and persist until dismissed by users or programs. The clipboard API allows callers to interact with the system clipboard, setting and retrieving its contents. The notifications [...]
Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.6
Jetpack SDK 0.6 is here, yay! The release includes a couple of notable enhancements: It is now possible to specify a width for widgets to make them wider or narrower as needed. Modules requiring access to Components (and Cc, Ci, etc.) must now explicitly obtain this privilege, which means that modules do not have elevated [...]
Jetpack Presentation @ OSC 2010 Hokkaido
We (Daisuke Akatsuka & Gomita) gave a presentation on Jetpack to Open Source Conference 2010 Hokkaido which was held in Japan, on 26th June. In the first part of the presentation, Daisuke talked about the concept of Jetpack and the history shifting from Jetpack Prototype to Jetpack Reboot. His talk was focused on the points [...]
Jetpack Survey Report
Survey 3 – “What Add-ons Builder APIs are important to you?” In this survey we asked current and potential Mozilla add-ons developers which APIs they felt were most important to them in their development efforts. The feedback the community gave was quite informative. Many of our assumptions about which APIs the community wanted were confirmed, [...]
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. [...]
