{"id":4345,"date":"2010-04-29T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.397"},"modified":"2010-04-29T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:40:44","slug":"announcing-jetpack-sdk-0-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/04\/announcing-jetpack-sdk-0-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re  happy to announce the release of Jetpack SDK 0.3, the third in our  regular series of releases of the add-on SDK we&#8217;re incubating for  integration with Firefox.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This version includes the first two high-level APIs we&#8217;re building to enable simple and powerful add-on development:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The  &#8220;context-menu&#8221; API lets add-ons add items to the context menu for web  pages, so add-ons can give users additional options when they  context-click on elements in pages (links, images, etc.) or the pages  themselves. For example, an add-on might add an &#8220;Edit in Pixastic&#8221; item  to the context menu for images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The  &#8220;self&#8221; API enables add-ons to access resources (web pages, images,  etc.) that are bundled with the add-on package. For example, an add-on  might bundle an icon that it displays in the browser&#8217;s status bar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>This version of the SDK also includes a number of bug fixes and other enhancements. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stay  tuned to this blog for posts describing some sample extensions that  developers have created using the new version of the SDK. And keep an  eye out for additional high-level APIs that make Firefox add-on  development even simpler and more powerful in future releases!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Get Started<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Browse the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/sdk\/latest\/docs\/\">documentation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Download the SDK as a <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/jetpack-sdk-latest.tar.gz\">tarball<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/jetpack-sdk-latest.zip\">ZIP archive<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Jetpack\/Release_Notes\">release notes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For more information, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/jetpack\/2010\/03\/09\/announcing-the-jetpack-sdk\/\">blog  post introducing the SDK<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/faq.html\">FAQ<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Participate<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/\">Jetpack website<\/a>.<\/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<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<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;  Myk, on behalf of Team Jetpack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce the release of Jetpack SDK 0.3, the third in our regular series of releases of the add-on SDK we&#8217;re incubating for integration with Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,538],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345"}],"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\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}