Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source, Beta, Browsers
With Jetpack, Mozilla stokes the customization fires
Jetpack aims to make browser addons easier to create by allowing developers to do so using only HTML, CSS, and Javascript (newer tags like <canvas> <audio> <video> are also supported, as is AJAX). And of course, Jetpack integrates well with Bespin (video clip after the break), which will make it easy for developers to create addons and roll out future updates.
You can see just how easy writing a Jetpack addon is in Mozilla's tutorial and by taking a quick look at the API reference.
If you add Jetpack to your Firefox install, don't expect perftection. It is, after all, only release 0.1.1. The two demos - GMail checker and UnAd - work just fine, but the position of their statusbar icons needs to be tweaked slightly.
The Firefox community loves their extensions, so making them easier to develop and accessible to a much larger group of developers is an excellent move by Mozilla. The simplicity Jetpack brings should allow for some exciting developments in a very short amount of time.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Alex M said 10:57AM on 5-21-2009
That's awesome all by itself. The Bespin integration is genius. But what I really like is that this is getting closer and closer to W3C Widgets (http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/introduction_to.html)
:)
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Doron Ben Chaim said 11:25AM on 5-21-2009
What about GreaseMonkey and userscripts.org?
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SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) said 12:09PM on 5-21-2009
Firefox Extenstions are the only thing keeping me from switching to the much faster Chrome completely. i have to use them in tandem now depending on what i'm doing.
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Jash Sayani said 8:15AM on 5-22-2009
Wow! Impressive, in deed !
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