Comments on: Mozilla Follows Palm’s Lead- Jetpack Web Add-Ons Use Web Standards http://gigaom.com/mobile/mozilla-follows-palms-lead-jetpack-web-add-ons-use-web-standards/ Sun, 27 May 2012 08:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Norman http://gigaom.com/mobile/mozilla-follows-palms-lead-jetpack-web-add-ons-use-web-standards/#comment-418615 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:39:43 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36093#comment-418615 “First, just saying XUL out loud scares the bejeezus out of me.”

That deserves to be repeated!!!

You rock, Kevin. Hard!

]]> By: ssokolow http://gigaom.com/mobile/mozilla-follows-palms-lead-jetpack-web-add-ons-use-web-standards/#comment-418614 Fri, 22 May 2009 12:41:49 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36093#comment-418614 All I can say is “It’s about time”.

Restart-free development and a simple, comfortable API are long overdue (can you tell I’m a Python programmer?), but what really seals the deal for me is the promise of API stability.

I’ve specifically abstained from developing Firefox extensions because I don’t feel like dancing to their beat on my upgrades just because they’ve been too lazy to develop a proper extension API.

A stable API would also finally make it feasible for browsers like Konqueror to add extension compatibility. (Not that far-fetched, considering that KDE 4′s Plasma desktop supports MacOS Dashboard widgets and Google Gadgets in addition to its native Plasmoids and KDE 3′s SuperKaramba widgets)

]]> By: tal http://gigaom.com/mobile/mozilla-follows-palms-lead-jetpack-web-add-ons-use-web-standards/#comment-418613 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:20:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36093#comment-418613 Another feedback – went and read the notes on their site. Apparently people were complaining about this being a competitor to Greasemonkey. Could be. The dev said that its supposed to be much more and then hinted that the whole thing came as a competitive answer to Goggle’s Chrom’s extension framework that is underway …
http://www.osnews.com/story/21494/Chrome_Extension_Framework_Coming_Together
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/c0fb0d94ef24a41a

Tal

]]> By: tal http://gigaom.com/mobile/mozilla-follows-palms-lead-jetpack-web-add-ons-use-web-standards/#comment-418612 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:05:58 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36093#comment-418612 Moreover, this is like making Firefox an OS + desktop for some usages, doesn’t it?!
Take a smartphone like Palm and base everything on firefox … I wonder …

]]> By: tal http://gigaom.com/mobile/mozilla-follows-palms-lead-jetpack-web-add-ons-use-web-standards/#comment-418611 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:03:12 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=36093#comment-418611 Great piece of information – thanks. And I also think that you have managed to identify the game changer here. If Fennec is included then its a whole new ball game.
That said even if this is just a Firefox thingy, its a new try to make the browser into the desktop. Maybe this time it will work for desktops, as the webOS does it for the Palm.

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