{"id":5050,"date":"2010-06-24T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.871"},"modified":"2010-06-24T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:57:35","slug":"announcing-jetpack-sdk-0-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/06\/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\" 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<p><\/p>\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<p><\/p>\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","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. For instance, one of the new APIs enables you to access tab information and control &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/06\/announcing-jetpack-sdk-0-5\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050"}],"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=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}