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==XUL== | ==XUL== |
Revision as of 11:21, 29 August 2005
Websites that are useful for Mozilla development. This knowledge base too has a few articles on extension development.
XUL
XML User Interface Language, widely used in Mozilla to specify user interfaces in a platform-independent way
- 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- mozilla.org XUL documentation contaning many links to resources, a lot of which are no longer maintained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
Extensible Binding Language
- Introduction to XBL from XulPlanet's XUL tutorial
- XBL Specifcation from mozilla.org
- mozilla.org XBL documentation much of whch is unmaintained
JavaScript
An interpreted language, used for scripting UI in Mozilla
- Chapter Five: Scripting from "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" —a great introduction to JavaScript and its place in Mozilla.
- ECMA-262 Edition 3 (PDF) the formal JavaScript specification
- JavaScript Central at Netscape Devedge
- JavaScript Language Resources at mozilla.org
- Douglas Crockford's JavaScript links
- JavaScript Optimization Techniques
- JavaScript Closures
- Articles from this knowledge base related to JavaScript
DOM
Document Object Model, an interface that allows scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of (HTML/XML) documents
- DOM Specifications 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
- What does each DOM Level bring? - Gives an overview of the different DOM Levels and the support Mozilla offers for each of them.
XPCOM / XPConnect
Cross-platform Component Object Model and A bridge to XPCOM components for JavaScript
- XPCOM Reference - XulPlanet's guide to to the XPCOM interfaces implemented by Mozilla, generated from the source code.
- Using XPCOM in JavaScript without leaking - essential reading for all XPCOM / JS developers
- mozilla.org XPCOM page containing a variety of links to useful XPCOM documents.
- Mozilla-JavaScript wiki unofficial, XPCOM + JavaScript documentation & samples
- Creating XPCOM Components - A book for developers wishing to create their own XPCOM components in languages such as C++, JavaScript and Python.
- A chapter with examples of C++ and JavaScript components from Creating Applications with Mozilla.
- Creating a C++ XPCOM component step-by-step tutorial on iosart.com.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
RDF
Resource Definition Framework
- 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.
- ESW wiki, RDF and Semantic Web wiki
Books
A bound publication of 49 or more pages that is not a magazine or periodical.
- 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 and online as a collection of XHTML files. More up to date and more detailed than the O'Reilly offering.
- mozdev.org has a list of Mozilla and Firefox-related books.
Others
Various useful links
- LXR - Search the Mozilla source code
- Packaging Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions - A reference for the Firefox 0.9+ packaging format
- Organized Links to Existing Content - categorized list of mozilla.org docs.