{"id":1626,"date":"2010-06-24T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:42:20","slug":"announcing-jetpack-sdk-0-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/06\/24\/announcing-jetpack-sdk-0-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/\">Jetpack<\/a> 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.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The new APIs in Jetpack SDK are:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Tabs API &#8211; Provides easy access to tabs and tab-related events.<\/li>\n<li>Request API &#8211; Lets you easily make network requests.<\/li>\n<li>Load\/unload reasons &#8211; Add-ons can now find out when they are being  loaded for the first time after being installed or enabled and unloaded  because they are being uninstalled or disabled.<\/li>\n<li>Localization API &#8211; Provides simple localization functionality. It  makes it possible to retrieve localized versions of the strings in your   code. And it doesn&#8217;t require you to solicit localizations from   localizers or bundle localizations with your code, as the module   retrieves them automatically from a web service based on the strings   your code is using.<\/li>\n<li>Selection API &#8211; Provides a means to get and set current text\/HTML   selections as well as observe new selections.<\/li>\n<li>And in case you have not been following the latest Jetpack   developments, we also launched Page Worker, Widget, Simple Storage and  Private Browsing APIs in previous releases.  A complete list of APIs can  be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/sdk\/latest\/docs\/#package\/jetpack-core\">core  library reference<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If you&#8217;re new to the Jetpack project, it aims to make it easy to  build Firefox add-ons using common Web technologies like HTML,  JavaScript, and CSS;  and with this latest release, building Firefox  add-ons has  never  been  easier!<\/div>\n<div>To get started, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/sdk\/latest\/docs\/#guide\/getting-started\">Jetpack  SDK tutorial<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/jetpack-sdk-latest.zip\">download  the SDK<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>For more information:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss, debate, and get help in the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla-labs-jetpack\">discussion  forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Chat via IRC in #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org.<\/li>\n<li>Submit a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Labs&amp;component=Jetpack%20SDK\">bug  report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Grab the <a href=\"https:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack-sdk\/\">source code <\/a>and    fix a bug or add a feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more about Jetpack, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/jetpack\">Jetpack Blog<\/a>, where you can read older entries.\u00a0 Future Jetpack related entries will get cross posted to the Add-ons Blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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