What a summit ! Danger, drama and lots of Mozillians. The summit was really a full blown conference. I heard there were around 400 attendees. There were 3 days packed with sessions and breakouts . I had a blast talking to people I usually only ever interact with on IRC.
Surprisingly, I somehow ended up with a sizable to-do list as well:
Work with MozDev group on FizzyPop
Talk to a few people about an upcoming DevDay in Toronto
Work with AMO on an a11y tool for AMO editors
Talk to jresig about a possible jQuery for XUL idea
Look into an incubator Hg repository for XULRunner
More Prism work related to Maemo and Fennec
I’m sure I forgot an item or two. I barely had time to sit down and write notes. There was literally always something I could have been doing. Either a session I wanted to see or some brainstorming that could be done.
One of the things that impressed me was the fact that the bears, rock slide and power outage didn’t effect vibe. People...
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RichDraw - Simple VML/SVG EditorFrom: starkravingfinkle.org
Post Date: 2006-04-09 13:36:26
Rich text editing is a feature that is finding it’s way into many new web applications . It’s becoming a feature that users can’t live without. We are also starting to see some graphical editing applications . In an effort to satisfy a potential, future, demand to have graphical editing everywhere (it could happen), I created a Javascript component called RichDraw.
RichDraw works in IE 6+, Firefox 1.5+ and Opera 9, using VML or SVG as the underlying renderer...
more Developing with MozillaFrom: starkravingfinkle.org
Post Date: 2006-06-28 23:35:04
I am trying to pull together as much information as I can about developing with the Mozilla platform. By platform I mean:
Creating browser extensions
Embedding the browser in my applications
Creating XUL based applications with XUL Runner
Connecting my code (usually C++) to the platform (usually Javascript)
Embedding:
Embedding Main Project
Embedding the Editor
Extensions:
Building an Extension
Creating a Firefox sidebar
Extension Wiki:Cat...
more I am My Data, My Data is MeFrom: starkravingfinkle.org
Post Date: 2006-06-18 12:09:02
I couldn’t help but get caught up in the recent threads about data lock-in. I have become quite a “data-snob” recently which, I’m finding, is quite abnormal for a developer. Developers are all about the code. On one side you have the Mark Pilgrim & Jon Gruber (& Mark’s reply ) discussing Apple’s data lock-in problems. On the other side you have Stewart Butterfield’s not-so-positive comments about allowing Flickr to export to Zo...
more Mozilla Platform - UI Basics [Part 1]From: starkravingfinkle.org
Post Date: 2006-07-30 12:14:55
My quest to build a basic desktop application using XUL continues. Last time I installed XULRunner and built a very simple, bare-bones test application. This time I want to add some of the things common to a desktop application UI:
Windows and Dialogs
Menus and Toolbars
OS Common Dialogs
Controls or Widgets
Windows
Each window or dialog should be created in it’s own XUL file. The XUL file may also contain other top-level declarations for CSS and DTD, which I will di...
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