Dev : Extensions : Resources

Websites that are useful for Mozilla development.

XUL

• XulPlanet the premier resource for XUL and general Mozilla development on the internet
• 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• mozilla.org XUL documentation contaning many links to resources, a lot of which are no longer maintained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 specifcation
• Javascript Central at Netscape Devedge

DOM

• DOM Specifcations from the w3c DOM Working Group
• Mozilla AOM Reference - A guide to the HTML/XUL DOM as implemenedin 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
• Creatiing XPCOM Components - A book for developers wishing to create their own XPCOM components in langauges such as C++, Javascript and Python
• mozilla.org XPCOM page containing a variety of links to useful XPCOM documents

CSS

• CSS Specifcations from the w3c
• mozilla.org CSS page

RDF

• mozilla.org RDF documentation somewhat unmaintained but with many useful links
• w3c RDF page with specifcations and links to articles 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