Pithos_GSS » Pithos Firefox extension

A few development notes while working on this project

[0] Master XUL Reference

		* https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL

[1]		Javascript Development

		May need to use a javascript framework for:

		*		 better code organization

		*		 whichever other utilities present (e.g. JSON)

		Possible candidates are:

		*				 jQuery [http://jquery.com/]

		*				 Dojo [http://www.dojotoolkit.org/]

		*				 ExtJS [http://extjs.com/]

		jQuery integrates well with Firefox extensions and is licensed as MIT/GPL.

		For widgets, an external library [http://jqueryui.com/] is present.

		Dojo has a rich set of widgets but there is evidense of not integrating well

		with Firefox extensions. Licensed as BSD.

		ExtJS is commercial.

[2]	Useful Firefox Extensions

		* Console2 [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1815]

		HomePage @ http://console2.mozdev.org/

		Much better Javascript console

		* Dom Inspector [https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM_Inspector]

		Very useful viewing the DOM hierarchy of XUL windows.

		* Extension Developer [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7434]

		Provides a wealth of tools, such as

				* interactive JS shell,

				* HTML editor

				* XUL editor

				* live preview

				* regular expressions tester

				* XPath tester

				* extension packaging utility

		* CCK Wizard [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2553]

		HomePage @ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox

		Helps creating an extension.

		Lots of features.

		* Firefly [http://firefly.mozdev.org/index.php]

		A File Manager

		--> Use ideas for code that handles local disk access

		-->

[3] UI Considerations

		* Extend the GWT interface to use one more pane for local disk

		This is classical IExplorer functionality

		* Use ideas from tools like

			* Midnight Commander [http://www.midnight-commander.org/]

			* muCommander [http://www.mucommander.com/]

[5] Extension examples

		* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development

[6] xulrunner

		* Getting Started with XULRunner

			https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Getting_started_with_XULRunner

[7] RFC2104

		* HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

			http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2104.txt

		* Javascript implementation (BSD License)

		  http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/scripts.html

			http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/jshash-2.2.zip

[8] Native File I/O

		* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I%2f%2fO

[9] How to fix name collisions in Mercurial

		I need that durin dev :-) Take a look at changesets 21:53c52498e7c2 & 22:f4b0d0a342e5

		* http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FixingCaseCollisions

[10] Plugin auto-update

		 * http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/automatic-firefox-extension-updates/

		* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extension_Versioning,_Update_and_Compatibility