Archive for the 'Extension Development' Category

“Restore Defaults” in XUL tree column pickers

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

I was looking into getting “Restore Defaults” working in Stylish’s tree column pickers. I figured they didn’t work because I was using custom tree views (where data is loaded by JavaScript rather than RDF). So I looked around for documentation on devmo and XUL Planet - nothing.  I thought that was strange, so I searched […]

Making money off extensions - rebranding

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Often, site owners want a customized version of an extension with certain tweaks, changed defaults, etc. They will often want that extension branded with their site’s name or logo (this may even be required by the original extension author, if it’s not you). To make this as easy as possible, extension authors should first ensure […]

Adventures in development - Web standards and Firefox extensions