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A few development notes while working on this project |
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[0] Master XUL Reference |
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* https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL |
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[1] Javascript Development |
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May need to use a javascript framework for: |
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* better code organization |
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* whichever other utilities present (e.g. JSON) |
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Possible candidates are: |
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* jQuery [http://jquery.com/] |
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* Dojo [http://www.dojotoolkit.org/] |
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* ExtJS [http://extjs.com/] |
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jQuery integrates well with Firefox extensions and is licensed as MIT/GPL. |
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For widgets, an external library [http://jqueryui.com/] is present. |
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Dojo has a rich set of widgets but there is evidense of not integrating well |
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with Firefox extensions. Licensed as BSD. |
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ExtJS is commercial. |
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[2] Useful Firefox Extensions |
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* Console2 [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1815] |
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HomePage @ http://console2.mozdev.org/ |
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Much better Javascript console |
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* Dom Inspector [https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM_Inspector] |
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Very useful viewing the DOM hierarchy of XUL windows. |
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* Extension Developer [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7434] |
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Provides a wealth of tools, such as |
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* interactive JS shell, |
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* HTML editor |
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* XUL editor |
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* live preview |
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* regular expressions tester |
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* XPath tester |
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* extension packaging utility |
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* CCK Wizard [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2553] |
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HomePage @ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/cck/firefox |
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Helps creating an extension. |
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Lots of features. |
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* Firefly [http://firefly.mozdev.org/index.php] |
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A File Manager |
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--> Use ideas for code that handles local disk access |
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[3] UI Considerations |
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* Extend the GWT interface to use one more pane for local disk |
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This is classical IExplorer functionality |
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* Use ideas from tools like |
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* Midnight Commander [http://www.midnight-commander.org/] |
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* muCommander [http://www.mucommander.com/] |
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[5] Extension examples |
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development |
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[6] xulrunner |
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* Getting Started with XULRunner |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Getting_started_with_XULRunner |
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[7] RFC2104 |
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* HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2104.txt |
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* Javascript implementation (BSD License) |
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http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/scripts.html |
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http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/jshash-2.2.zip |
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[8] Native File I/O |
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* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I%2f%2fO |
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[9] How to fix name collisions in Mercurial |
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I need that durin dev :-) Take a look at changesets 21:53c52498e7c2 & 22:f4b0d0a342e5 |
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* http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FixingCaseCollisions |
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[10] Plugin auto-update |
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* http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/automatic-firefox-extension-updates/ |
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* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extension_Versioning,_Update_and_Compatibility |