In a follow-up to my previous post on DOM Storage, here’s an attempt to answer some of the questions posed in the comments, and elsewhere. What’s to stop a script from filling an entire storage area with random data? As best as I can tell with the implementation in Firefox, every time you save data […]
Comment · Posted: January 31st, 2007
The first thing that I tasked myself with, when I hopped on board with Mozilla, was to learn everything that I could about the new DOM Storage functionality provided in the HTML 5 specification. Interestingly, it’s actually very impressive. The brief summary: DOM Storage is a way to store meaningful amounts of client-side data in […]
Comment · Posted: January 29th, 2007
This is an adaptation of a presentation that I gave while at Mashup Camp Boston. We’re going to take an introductory look at the Firebug Firefox Extension and the jQuery JavaScript Library – combining the two to build a reusable bookmarklet that can manipulate Digg Posts and Comments. Click video to begin (14:39 Minutes long, […]
Comment · Posted: January 26th, 2007
This past week I attended Mashup Camp here in Boston – and was frequently asked what tools I used in development. I was quick to mention Firebug (I mean, I was giving a presentation on it, after all) – but I then thought about the other tools that I use in development and decided to […]
Comment · Posted: January 22nd, 2007
If you’re ever spent time trying to grok Firefox Extension development (especially if you’re coming from a pure web development background). You’ll find that there’s a lot that you have to learn to get up to speed. To name a few: XPCOM, RDF, XUL, and XBL in addition to a huge number of custom APIs […]
Comment · Posted: January 9th, 2007
Today I start work at a new position with the Mozilla Corporation. This has been a long time coming (been interviewing with them for about 1.5 months now) and I’m terribly excited about where this is going to lead. I’m going to be working in Developer Relations; this involves interacting with everyone from Firefox core […]
Comment · Posted: January 2nd, 2007
