Workspace 0.5.3 is released on AMO! One gotcha: If you’re running Firefox Beta 11 or under, you might want to wait for Beta 12 to come out before upgrading (which should be tagged for building today or tomorrow). If you’re on a nightly, you’ll want to upgrade right away. The reason for the fix is [...]
Just a quick note to let people know that I’ve updated the Workspace extension recently. Added support for saving and loading files as well as a hotkey (F4) to open it from the browser. Many thanks to Erik Vold for some nice fixes and improvements! Install it here: http://antennasoft.net/addons/workspace.xpi.
This weekend, I did a bit more work on the Workspace to get it closer to a releasable state. I also had some help in the form of some community contribution via the prolific Erik Vold on github. Download: workspace.xpi * added the relevant .htaccess bits so you can install directly from the link. Just [...]
I went looking through my library for the classic Smalltalk-80 books to lookup the definition for the original consoleworkspace. When I realized I didn’t have the “orange book” on my shelf, I searched for it and found all of the original Smalltalk-80 books in PDF: http://www.world.st/books. From Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment (p. 106, How [...]
One feature I wanted in Firefox 4 was a JavaScript Workspace. I know I’ve talked about it to a bunch of people. Most of the time, people looked at me like I had a chicken on my head. The concept is so simple yet hard to really convey how useful it is. Conversations inevitably go [...]
Every year we bring in Mozillians from around the globe to have a focused get-together. It’s a time when we can do some heavy planning, and brainstorm in one place. Often, some of the hallway conversations and parties generate good ideas. One conversation I had last night with Dietrich, Dolske and Mak was, how do [...]
For years, the world has been able to rely on Firebug and its console for debugging web sites. It has been a convenient and productive tool and we’d probably still be languishing in the window.dump() mines without it. A side-effect of this availability has made some patterns appear that don’t play nicely with consoles that [...]
It’s Black Friday! For some of you, that means lots of shopping, post-turkey discomfort and watching football. Maybe all at once. For me, it meant checking out the latest development trunk of the Add-ons SDK (née Jetpack) and bundling up an add-on. There were a couple of fun things about doing this. One, all of [...]
A few years ago, back in the heady days of 2006, dria and I were sitting around discussing alternative browser designs. One of them was dislodged from my memory a few days ago when Labs announced the Chromeless project. How could we make use of all the vertical real-estate on a widescreen monitor? One idea [...]
We’ve been recently discussing some of the future directions for our Devtools group within Firefox world. One of the proposals is to do some development on Github using Jetpacks for feature work. The idea being, we can work rapidly on these features in a collaborative, social space, and then fold them back in as a [...]
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