{"id":286,"date":"2009-02-06T15:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T22:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-05-06T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:12:09","slug":"making-extension-development-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2009\/02\/06\/making-extension-development-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Extension Development Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2009\/01\/29\/slides-for-todays-presentation\/\">brown bag<\/a> last week, one of our goals is how we can make Firefox extension development a better experience.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve listened to the community, taken copious notes, and want to pose this question to all of you:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How can we make the development of extensions easier?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>From lots of impromptu conversations with our developer community, we know that there&#8217;s a lot we can do to help at all stages in the developer life cycle.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still pulling together ideas and we want to get you involved by asking you to let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Towards this end, we&#8217;re going to post a survey this weekend asking you about your experience learning, developing, and publishing add-ons.\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking for brutally honest feedback about your experience as a developer and ideas on how things could be better.\u00a0 We want to hear it all, and we&#8217;ll use this info to help guide our thinking in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Looking towards the future, we&#8217;ll continue the dialogue with a series of blog posts and phone chats so that you&#8217;ll get the opportunity to see what we&#8217;re thinking and get involved in planning the future of extensions.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be fun!<\/p>\n<p>Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in our brown bag last week, one of our goals is how we can make Firefox extension development a better experience.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve listened to the community, taken &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2009\/02\/06\/making-extension-development-easier\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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