Yesterday the Jetpack project released SDK 1.5. Alongside this Dave Mason pointed out that the upcoming release of Firefox 11 will break compatibility with add-ons packaged with SDK versions 1.3 and below. This is necessary because of a change in Firefox where nsIDOMNSElement was removed ( Jorge recently mentioned this in his compatibility post ).… Continue reading
The ability of developers using the SDK to get chrome authority and access xpcom services is a key feature. The SDK was designed from the start with the assumption that some developers will always need access to the underlying Mozilla platform. While xpcom is the main way to access low level apis, a lot of… Continue reading
Project News Next week’s Bay Area Firefox Add-ons meet-up will be at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on Tuesday, February 21 at 6PM. This month’s meetup features the SDK and Builder, including a talk by yours truly, a raffle for an Android Tablet and much, much more! If you’re in the area on Tuesday Feb 21… Continue reading
I’m excited to be working with Amy to resurrect the bay Area Add-ons meetup next Tuesday night. The theme for this month’s meetup will be the Add-on SDK and Builder, so I will be giving brief overviews of how these tools work and the kinds of things you can do with them. We’d also like… Continue reading
For this post, please welcome guest blogger and SDK developer Matteo Ferretti who has been hard at work porting the SDK to work with the new native version of Mobile Firefox. Getting Started Add-on SDK version 1.5 is due to be released on February 21st, and we're pleased to announce that this version will introduce… Continue reading
Project News We released two point releases, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to address issues related to deploying SDk 1.4 on the Add-on Builder site. Jorge pointed out an important compatibility issue with SDK 1.3 and the upcoming Firefox 11 release in his compatibility post. We will be re-packing add-ons built with 1.3 and lower prior to… Continue reading
Tomorrow I’m heading to Europe for a week or so; amongst other things I am very very excited to be attending FOSDEM for the first time after hearing about it for years! I’ll be speaking and generally helping out in the Mozilla project’s dev room. If you are at all interested in add-on development, there… Continue reading
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of 1.4.1, we identified an issue in the SDK where console logging was not happening correctly. Through discussions with the Add-on Builder team, this issue was identified as a Priority 1 blocker for the Builder team given the recent addition of 1.4 support earlier this week. If… Continue reading
Project News We’re releasing SDK 1.5b2 this afternoon, including updated localization documentation. If you’re interested in addon localization progress, you should read over Zbigniew Braniecki’s insightful feedback post on our html localization proposal. Yesterday I posted a note about SDK 1.4 and the Addon Builder Quick Stats Total open bugs: 240 Bugs created last week:… Continue reading
Over the last few releases we have typically updated Addon Builder to be able to use the latest version of the SDK within a few days. As you may have noticed, this hasn’t happened yet for the SDK 1.4 release. The Builder project’s product manager Daniel Buchner recently posted about this to the Jetpack google… Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths is a Vancouver based web developer and open web advocate; he works on the Developer Engagement team helping to promote the new Addons SDK to web developers and the existing Addons developer community.
