Jetpack Project: weekly update for April 03, 2012
Project News We released SDK 1.6! You can already check out the spiffy, completely re-vamped documentation here, as well as the release notes. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 279 Bugs … Read more
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Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 20, 2012
Project News Irakli blogged about the hows and whys of using the SDK’s namespace implementation. Alex updated the Jetpack Google Group with progress on localization features. Quick Stats Total open … Read more
Link: using the SDK’s namespaces implementation
SDK Tech Lead Irakli Gozalishvili blogged today about the intention behind the SDK’s namespace implementation: Sometimes program is written to work with third party, potentially malicious, code which may use … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 13th, 2012
Project News I blogged yesterday about SDK compatibility with the Firefox 10 ESR release. Firefox UI designer Stephen Horlander dropped by the weekly meeting this morning and showed us some … Read more
SDK Compatibility with Extended Support Releases
When Firefox 10 was released, this version was also released as an ‘ESR’ ( or Extended Support Release ) build. ESR releases of Firefox are intended for deployments of Firefox … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 6th, 2012
Project News We’re getting slightly more serious about shipping the SDK’s loader and core libraries in Firefox; see this feature page for some initial thoughts, and subscribe to the related … Read more
Re-packaging your SDK-based Add-ons for Firefox 11
Yesterday the Jetpack project released SDK 1.5. Alongside this Dave Mason pointed out that the upcoming release of Firefox 11 will break compatibility with add-ons packaged with SDK versions 1.3 … Read more
Using Javascript ( *.jsm ) modules in the SDK
The ability of developers using the SDK to get chrome authority and access xpcom services is a key feature. The SDK was designed from the start with the assumption that … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for February 14th, 2012
Project News Next week’s Bay Area Firefox Add-ons meet-up will be at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on Tuesday, February 21 at 6PM. This month’s meetup features the SDK and Builder, … Read more