Dev : Extensions : Resources

This page is part of the extension development documentation project.

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Note: development documentation is in process of being moved to Mozilla Development Center (MDC).

Websites that are useful for Mozilla development.

XUL

• XulPlanet the premier resource for XUL and general Mozilla development on the internet
  • Introductory document
  • XUL elements reference
• XUL Programmer's Reference XUL programmer's reference from mozilla.org (slightly dated)
• mozilla.org XUL documentation contaning many links to resources, a lot of which are no longer maintained

XBL

• Introduction to XBL from XulPlanet's XUL tutorial
• XBL Specifcation from mozilla.org
• mozilla.org XBL documentation much of whch is unmaintained

Javascript

• ECMA-262 Edition 3 (PDF) the formal Javascript specification
• Javascript Central at Netscape Devedge

• Douglas Crockford's Javascript links
• Javascript Optimization Techniques
• Javascript Closures
• Dev : Javascript coding guidelines

DOM

• DOM Specifcations from the w3c DOM Working Group
• Mozilla AOM Reference - A guide to the HTML/XUL DOM as implemened in Mozilla
• XulPlanet Object Reference generated from the source code
• Gecko DOM Reference

XPCOM / XPConnect

• XPCOM Reference - XulPlanet's guide to to the XPCOM interfaces implemented by Mozilla, generated from the source code.
• Creating XPCOM Components - A book for developers wishing to create their own XPCOM components in languages such as C++, Javascript and Python.
• mozilla.org XPCOM page containing a variety of links to useful XPCOM documents.
• Creating a C++ XPCOM component step-by-step tutorial on iosart.com.

CSS

• CSS Specifications from the w3c
• Mozilla.org page on CSS
• The list of Mozilla-specific CSS properties

RDF

• mozilla.org RDF documentation somewhat unmaintained but with many useful links
• w3c RDF page with specifcations and links to articles for beginners
• Introduction to RDF from XulPlanet's XUL tutorial
• Introduction to RDF model from XulPlanet. General information for beginners.

Books

• Creating Applications With Mozilla O'Reilly's reference - released at about same time as Seamonkey (the Mozilla suite) 1.0 and avaliable online as a collection of HTML files.
• Rapid Application Development With Mozilla Avaliable as a set of compressed PDF files. More up to date and more detailed than the O'Reilly offering.

Others

• LXR - Search the Mozilla source code
• Packaging Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions A reference for the Firefox 0.9+ packaging format