We recently released a developer preview of the Chrome Web Store, which included new documentation about our upcoming payments and licensing API. With this blog post, we wanted to share a quick overview and some tips about this API so that you can star... ...
The release of the Mozilla Add-ons SDK 0.7 brings with it many useful APIs developers can leverage to create an even wider variety of Firefox add-ons without touching a single line of code from the underlying Mozilla platform. Notable APIs from 0.7 include Clipboard, Notifications, and the topic of this post, the Panel API. The addition ...
Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time, only to find that his house hadn’t been built yet, skateboards hadn’t been ... ...
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview ...
A little over a month ago I posted the first compatibility notice for add-on developers. Beta 1 was just out, and there were a lot of important breaking changes that you needed to be aware of. We’re now up to beta 4, RC1 is a couple of months away, and there even more things you ...
I recently demonstrated Test Driving Modern SVG using the SVG Dice sample currently on the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site. While building this sample, I learned that both performance and interoperability for SVG are a subtle continuum and are not binary. This point resonated with me so much that ...
Ici. Hier. Qui. Aquí. Hier. It’s here – today we added support for five additional languages for Adobe Reader for Android: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. In this update (V9.0.2) Android phone users in these locales can now view and interact with PDF files in the language most convenient to them. It’s easy and ...
There are a number of ways to organize and classify add-ons on AMO, but categories are probably the best way to ensure your add-on has maximum exposure to users searching for particular add-ons. We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just added 3 new categories to our site: Games & Entertainment for Firefox extensions Shopping for Firefox ...
On Friday (Aug 27), I attended the "Workshop on Cyber Security Data for Experimentation" organized by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The premise of the workshop was that many academics need real-world data sets to solve problems, whereas indust... ...
When we first showed IE9 at the Professional Developers Conference last fall, we discussed how real world browser performance involves many different subsystems. Different websites use these subsystems in different ways, and to build a fast real world ... ...