Tag Archives: extensions

Update on Activities, Microformats and Operator

Posted on April 29, 2008 by mkaply

I haven’t blogged in a while, so I wanted to give everyone a quick update on som of my projects. Activities Version 0.7.1 of Firefox Activities is waiting patiently to be moved out of the AMO sandbox. Unfortunately my 0.7 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Screwed Up Activities API Docs – It's addService NOT AddService

Posted on March 26, 2008 by mkaply

UPDATE: jst ROCKS! – I was able to do exactly what he said and I now have both cases of APIs working in my extension. OK, this is really starting to bother me because Activities are starting to show up … Continue reading →

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New Activities, Updated Operator and More

Posted on March 20, 2008 by mkaply

I’ve made version 0.6 of Firefox Activities available in the Add-ons Sandbox. If you like it, please review it so I can get it moved out of the Sandbox. This version has a working preview for Firefox 3, as well … Continue reading →

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Operator 0.9 is available

Posted on March 17, 2008 by mkaply

NOTE: There is a problem with the zh-TW, hr-HR, cs-CZ, pt-BR and ru-RU translations. I’ll post a 0.9.1 when I get this worked out. Unfortunately this makes Operator 0.9 unusable in those languages because for some reason Babelzilla replaced the … Continue reading →

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Group Policy Extension for Firefox

Posted on March 14, 2008 by mkaply

I’ve been working with Cesar Oliveira from Seneca College to put together some initial attempts at group policy support. Here’s his comment from bug 267888: Since there doesn’t seem to have been any communication from the assignee for over a … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Activities for Firefox – New Version

Posted on March 7, 2008 by mkaply

I have an update for Activities that adds preview and fixes some bugs. If you just want that, skip to the end of the post. One of the things I realized as I worked on this extension is just how … Continue reading →

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More Microsoft Activities for Firefox (Calling out Microsoft)

Posted on March 6, 2008 by mkaply

I’ve made lots of progress since yesterday. I hope to have a new version available today. I thought I’d start the day by calling out Microsoft for not even following their own spec (and you too Yahoo!). What part of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Activities for Firefox

Posted on March 5, 2008 by mkaply

After looking at Microsoft Activities in IE8 and noticing that they look suspiciously like my ideas around actions in Operator, I decided to implement them in Firefox. For your downloading pleasure, here is a first pass at Activities support in … Continue reading →

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Simple Firefox Customizations: What Else Can I Do?

Posted on January 21, 2008 by mkaply

Before we get started on this next topic, I need to make one correction. In earlier posts, I said to use collapsed=”true” to hide XUL menuitems. A better option is to use hidden=”true” instead. Using collapsed doesn’t hide the margins, … Continue reading →

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Simple Firefox Customizations: The Basics

Posted on December 27, 2007 by mkaply

I get asked a lot of questions about customizing Firefox that are beyond the scope of the CCK. Most of these questions involve how to prevent users from doing certain things or hide certain options in the UI. My typical … Continue reading →

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