One of my coauthors and I sat down this afternoon to improve the performance of the Firefox add-on I've been working on ( Read more... )

I'm learning in leaps and bounds, but i still haven't figured out how to fix this particular problem which is basically essential to me moving forwards with this project. I suspect the answer is so simple that I've missed it ( Read more... )

Well, works might be an overstatement. :)

But I know have enough understanding of XUL to have it pop up a dialog that looks the way I want it to look, and I can at least get the close button working. I'd hoped to get it populating the textarea reasonably tonight, and I think I'm close to that, it's just that I think bedtime is more important ( Read more... )

Because I've gotten so interested in javascript of late, I thought now would be a good time to learn how to make a firefox extension.

A little bit of searching on Mozilla's site turned up a document entitled "Building an Extension" which looked promising. If you completely ignore the "testing" section and just built your extension, they work ( Read more... )