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
After a year in incubation we’re ready to remove the beta tag from the Add-on Builder! For those of you who are unfamiliar with this fantastic tool, Add-on Builder is an online development environment that allows developers with knowledge of HTML, JavaScipt and CSS to rapidly create add-ons for Firefox using the Mozilla Add-on SDK.… Continue reading
The Add-ons meetup in San Francisco is less than a week away, so be sure to RSVP if you haven’t already. If you’re interested in seeing how easy it is to create add-ons for Firefox with Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK but can’t make the event, we are broadcasting it on Air Mozilla from… 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
Project News We released a hotfix release, 1.4.3. It fixes an important regression in 1.4, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 and should be taken by anybody currently using one of those releases. More details here. FOSDEM happened, there were Jetpack presentations and discussions. Henrik Skupin blogged about it, and contributed a patch. Andrew Sutherland has written an… Continue reading
If you’re in the Bay Area, we invite you to join us at our San Francisco office on Tuesday, February 21, for an evening of food, drinks and good company! Come and see how easy it is to create add-ons for Firefox with Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK. If you’re a Web developer and… 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
