{"id":43,"date":"2007-12-14T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/2007\/12\/personas-for-firefox\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T18:19:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:19:48","slug":"personas-for-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2007\/12\/personas-for-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Personas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px\">&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/services\/install.php?addon_id=personas\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~cbeard\/personas\/en-US\/img\/personas.png\" border=\"none\" alt=\"Personas for Firefox\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nPersonas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px\">\n<li>themes today are too hard to find, install and use<\/li>\n<li>graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code<\/li>\n<li>browsers can be more than just desktop software, they can include online components<\/li>\n<li>people just want their computer to be a little more fun and personal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This version improves upon a prototype that was discussed and tested earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just <a href=\"http:\/\/cbeard.typepad.com\/mozilla\/2007\/12\/the-space-betwe.html\">started talking about the possible benefits<\/a> of taking advantage of an online component to deliver a better browser experience. There is certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/dailythemes.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/10\/picking-up-where-you-left-off\/\">more to explore<\/a> in this regard; Personas is but a simple example.<\/p>\n<p>In this version, the Persona selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. All changes to the browser chrome are applied instantly, with no need to restart.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll shortly be releasing an API that will allow developers and designers to submit Personas that are based on Web content, including support for anything that can load in a content window such as HTML, CSS, PNG, JPG, Javascript, SVG and Canvas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px\">\n<li>You can select a Persona from the dynamic menus and see results instantly without having to discover, select, download or install a separate bit of software or code.<\/li>\n<li>Personas can be added, removed or updated by their designers at any time, without requiring a software update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~cbeard\/personas\/personas-preview.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Personas for Firefox<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/services\/install.php?addon_id=personas\">Install Now<\/a><\/strong> for Firefox 2.0.0.* &#8211; 3.0b2pre, Windows\/Mac\/Linux<br \/>\n<em>Compatible with the default themes that ship with Firefox<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Get Involved<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0px\">\n<li>Discuss, debate and add to the design in the <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/forum\/?CategoryID=18\">Personas forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla Labs&amp;component=Personas\">Report bugs<\/a> using Bugzilla.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/labs\/personas\/\">Get the source code<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?product=Mozilla Labs&amp;component=Personas\">fix a known bug<\/a> or suggest a patch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/forum\/index.php\/topic,360.0.html\">Translate and localize<\/a> for your language and locale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;gt; Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser. Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that: themes today are too hard to find, install and use graphic designers should be able to &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2007\/12\/personas-for-firefox\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}