Posts with keyword: mozilla

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Add-on and Mashup Development: Leveraging 3rd-Party APIs

Thu Dec 11 12:43:00 2008

An add-on in Firefox is Javascript, XUL, and CSS. Any part of the Firefox UI can be modified by an add-on. Version control is built-in as is an upgrade mechanism. Platform APIs allow an add-on to access anything on the machine. That's good and bad. There are security issues, but it makes add-ons very powerful because you have full access. One of the nice things about moving a mashup into an add-on is that you do away with many of the cross-site scripting restrictions that make mashups hard, or even difficult. Much of what you do
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Add On Business Models

Thu Dec 11 11:10:00 2008

The opening panel at Add On Con is made up of Kimbal Musk of OneRiot, Alec Jeong of CoolIris, Alex Iskold of AdaptiveBlue, Geoff Mack of Alexa James Joaquin of Foxmarks and Adam Boyden of Conduit. The participants had to introduce themselves with a haiku. That was pretty entertaining. Alexa arguably has the first and most well known business based on an add-on. The Alexa toolbar was made popular by webmasters who promoted the toolbar as a way of elevating their rankings. This was a double edged sword since it also muddied their data for a
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Travels, Trials, and Browser Tribulations

Tue Dec 9 12:57:00 2008

I this week's Technometria podcast, Scott, Ben, and I are joined by Tyler Whitaker and Dion Almaer, who both discuss some of their recent technology activities. Ben and Dion have recently been hired at Mozilla, where the company is working on new open web tools for developers. They talk about some of their long-term and short-term goals, including plans on ways to make it easier to deal with browser differences. In addition, Tyler discusses some of his recent internet connectivity problems and Scott talks about his recent delayed flight and how a website helped him better
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