MozMill 1.1 UI Overview
During the Open Design session at Mozilla with Aza we were informed that we could load a HTML file with a Chrome URL, allowing me to rebuild the MozMill UI a bit more like a web page instead of using the XUL constructs that I had been struggling with. Granted it feels a lot more [...]
In: Automation, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source · Tagged with: Automation, Development, JavaScript, Mozmill, Open Source, Testing, XUL
Micro-Bookmarking with MyTabs
A few weeks ago I realized that every time I boot my laptop, one of the first things I do is to open Firefox, and immediately load about 7 web sites as tabs. Some of them requiring user interaction to navigate to the desired state. I didn’t realize that this was actually a phenomenon called [...]
In: Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Web · Tagged with: Addons, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Mozmill, Open Source
XUSH (.01), you know it’s fun to say.
Over the past 8 months I have been neck deep in XUL and XPCOM and with Venkman being as unintuitive as it is I have badly needed a shell with access to the trusted space in the browser. I also had a couple more requirements, which were that it was super easy to get at [...]
In: Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Python, Web · Tagged with: Extension, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Mozmill, Shell, Venkman, XPCOM, XUL
Windmill Gets a Facelift for 1.0Beta1
Working up to the Windmill 1.0 Beta 1 Release, I finally had the opportunity to put some time into making the IDE (that a lot of you live in when in test writing mode) a little bit nicer to look at. The IDE has been growing organically since 0.1 and there was a lot of [...]
In: Automation, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Python, Technology, Web, Windmill, Windmill-dev · Tagged with: 1.0, Beta, IDE, Mozmill, Release, Testing, UI, Windmill
Mozilla Summit
I am currently up here in Whistler BC for the Mozilla Summit. There is about 400 people here staying at the Westin Resort & Spa up here in scenic Canada. The schedule for the con can be found here; http://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2008/Sessions/Schedule I do have to say that Mozilla is doing a great job at taking care of [...]
In: Career, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Slide, Web, Windmill, Work · Tagged with: 99, History, Mobile, Mozilla, Mozmill, Open Source, Organically, Planning, QA, Rocks, Slide, Summit, Thunderbird, UE, Whistler, XUL
