Add-on SDK - State of the SDK

Firefox work week, Toronto 2012

Dave Townsend (Mossop)

Jetpack Manager, Mozilla Corporation

Shifting focus

• Greasemonkey scripters
• Shallow integrators
• Deeper integrators

Shifting focus

• Separating you from the platform
• XUL
• Android
• Metro
• B2G?

What's New?

Localisation

• Uses standard .properties files
• Localise from JS
• Localise HTML directly

Content stylesheets

• Applies to content without any JS
• Applies as a user stylesheet

Mobile support

• Limited module support right now
• More coming soon

What's Coming?

Landing in Firefox

• Starting with the loader
• Next up the APIs

New UX widgets

New UX widgets

New UX widgets

New UX widgets

Module sharing

• Baby steps
• Include modules by URL
• Maybe a listing repository later

More!

• Extending the built-in modules
• Ship the SDK as an add-on
• Improving performance

Challenges

• Providing more APIs
• Mobile support
• Maintaining stability
• Growing the community

We're hiring!

Any questions?