Archive for March, 2007

Extension integration: It’s All Text!

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

It’s All Text! is an extension that lets the user edit textboxes with their favourite editor. As was the case with Rainbowpicker, it has sensible default behaviour - it applies to all HTML text areas. Unlike Rainbowpicker, It’s All Text! has a well-defined, simple API to extend its functionality into other areas.
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Extension integration: Rainbowpicker

Friday, March 9th, 2007

This is the first in a series of posts about integrating extensions with other extensions. That is, providing advanced functionality in your extension based on the presence of other extensions.
Rainbowpicker is an extension that changes the way XUL colorpickers work - for button type colorpickers, instead of the default behaviour where a drop down is […]

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