Archive of obsolete content

Here at MDN, we try to avoid outright deleting content that might be useful to people targeting legacy platforms, operating systems, and browsers. Perhaps your target audience is people that are using older hardware, for example, and can't upgrade to the latest and greatest browsers. Or for "reasons," your company is required to use very old software and you need to build Web content that runs on that software. Or perhaps you're just curious about the history of an obsolete feature or API, and how it worked.

There are many reasons older documentation can be useful. So, we've established this area into which we can archive older documentation. Material in this Archived content zone should not be used for building new Web sites or apps for modern browsers. It's here for historical reference only.

See the complete index of archived content

Note to writers: We need to try to keep the subpages here organized instead of all dumped into one large folder. Try to create subtrees for categories of material. Also, only move pages here that are extremely obsolete. If anyone might realistically need the information in a living product, it may not be appropriate to move it here. In general, it may be best to discuss it in the MDN Web Docs room on Matrix before moving content here.

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2015 MDN Fellowship Program
Add-ons
Archived add-ons documentation.
Adding preferences to an extension
This article takes the Creating a dynamic status bar extension sample to the next level, adding a popup menu that lets you quickly switch between multiple stocks to watch. It also adds a preference dialog that lets you switch to a stock other than one of the ones included in the popup menu.
An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News
One of the Web's oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout. The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we've come to expect from Web pages.
API
Archived documentation about obsolete web standards APIs.
Archived Mozilla and build documentation
These articles are archived, obsolete documents about Mozilla, Gecko, and the process of building Mozilla projects.
Archived open Web documentation
The documentation listed below is archived, obsolete material about open Web topics.
Beginner tutorials
This page includes archived beginners tutorials, from various places around MDN.
Case Sensitivity in class and id Names
Creating a dynamic status bar extension
Concepts covered in the previous sample won't be reiterated here; instead, refer to the downloadable sample code or to the previous sample for further details.
Creating a status bar extension
Many of the concepts introduced here apply to any XUL-based application; however, to keep from getting completely overwhelmed, we're going to focus specifically on Firefox.
CSS3
CSS3 is the latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language and aims at extending CSS2.1. It brings a lot of long-awaited novelties, like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, transitions or animations, as well as new layouts like multi-columns, flexible box or grid layouts.
Element
Events
Archived event pages
Firefox Developer Tools
These are articles related to the Firefox Developer Tools, which are no longer current.
Gecko Compatibility Handbook
** Notes ** - The Solution Quick Reference needs more attention. - I'm also looking for a way to organize all that information. - Some inline examples were removed because of technical limitations. They are actually replaced by ''-(EXAMPLE REMOVED)-'' The goal of this handbook is to help you update websites to work with standards-based browsers and properly detect Gecko.
Getting the page URL in NPAPI plugin
Sometimes, you want to restrict an NPAPI plugin to be loadable only from a certain URL or domain or scheme. Or whenever you make network requests yourself, you almost always need to enforce same-origin policy.
Index of archived content
Inner-browsing extending the browser navigation paradigm
This article is the version from 2003 with slight modifications (no images and no links to samples). It's here for reference.
Install.js
See also this article from XulPlanet's Main Tutorial.
JXON
JXON (lossless JavaScript XML Object Notation) is a generic name by which is defined the representation of JavaScript Objects using XML. There are no real standards for this conversion, but some conventions begin to appear on the web. There are some cases in which the whole content of an XML document must be read from the JavaScript interpreter (like for web-apps languages or settings XML documents, for example). In these cases JXON could represent the most practical way.
List of Former Mozilla-Based Applications
The following is a list of all known applications that at one point used Mozilla technologies or that are no longer being actively maintained.
List of Mozilla-Based Applications
The following is a list of all known active applications that are built using Mozilla technologies. This list is likely to be incomplete since we think there are many dark matter projects that we don't know about. If you have information about a new project or extra information about an existing project, please feel free to update this page.
Localizing an extension
This article expands upon the previous samples on extension writing by adding localization support to our stock watcher extension. Performing a few simple steps makes your extension much easier to localize into various languages without having to edit the XUL or JavaScript files themselves.
Makefile - .mk files
Misc top level
These pages were moved from the top level of MDN in a spate of furious reorganization.
MMgc
MMgc is the Tamarin (née Macromedia) garbage collector, a memory management library that has been built as part of the AVM2/Tamarin effort. It is a static library that is linked into the Flash Player but kept separate, and can be incorporated into other programs.
Mozilla release FAQ
This document may be distributed and modified freely. No guarantee of factuality in this FAQ is made, and it is maintained by Pat Gunn, who is not affiliated with Netscape. Various other people have contributed to this FAQ.
Newsgroup summaries
Obsolete: XPCOM-based scripting for NPAPI plugins
Plugins that used to take advantage of being scriptable via LiveConnect in 4.x Netscape browsers lost this possibility in the new world. The main reason for this is that there is no guarantee of Java compatibility on a binary level due to the jri/jni switch. The new Mozilla XPCOM architecture allows XPCOM components be scriptable via a different mechanism called XPConnect. We leverage some of these ideas to help you make your Netscape Communicator 4.x plugins exposed to JavaScript in Mozilla based browsers.
Plugins
For more information about plugin roadmap, see non-archived plugin information.
RSS
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a popular HTML-like XML-based data format used for syndication. RSS has a sordid history and a multitude of different incompatible RSS versions. (Some being based on RDF, but most only being based on XML.) Nonetheless, RSS is an extremely popular format that is used for syndicating news, blog posts, IPradio, and IPTV, with an amazing amount of momentum.
SAX
SAX, short forSimple API for XML, is a parsing API. SAX was the first widely adopted API for XML in Java, and later implemented in several other programming language environments. Starting with Firefox 2, a SAX parser is available to XUL applications and extensions. For more information, please see SAX homepage.
Security
Relying on these obsolete security articles is highly discouraged. Doing so may put your systems at risk.
Solaris 10 Build Prerequisites
Sunbird Theme Tutorial
This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to making a theme for Sunbird 0.3a1 and later versions. It is designed for beginners. It does not cover advanced topics.
Table Reflow Internals
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Tamarin Tracing Build Documentation
The following instructions are for obtaining and building the Tamarin Tracing source code. For instructions on Tamarin Central, please see
The Basics of Web Services
Summary: A current hot topic on the web right now are Web Services. This short guide will allow you to learn more about web services.
Themes
Archived theme documentation.
Updating an extension to support multiple Mozilla applications
This article shows how to take an existing extension and update it so that it can be used in additional Mozilla applications. We'll build upon the stock watcher extension created in earlier articles in this series, updating it so it can also be used in Thunderbird and Sunbird (previous versions worked only in Firefox).
Using Firebug and jQuery (Screencast)
Note: This screencast is originally from:
http://ejohn.org/blog/hacking-digg-w...ug-and-jquery/
Using IO Timeout And Interrupt On NT
This technical memo is a cautionary note on using NetScape Portable Runtime's (NSPR) IO timeout and interrupt on Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0. Due to a limitation of the present implementation of NSPR IO on NT, programs must follow the following guideline:
Using SSH to connect to CVS
Using Web Standards in your Web Pages
Using workers in extensions
This article shows you how to use worker threads in extensions to perform tasks in the background without blocking the user interface.
Web Standards
The Web Standards Project
Windows Media in Netscape
Netscape 7.1 has the ability to load the Microsoft® Windows Media Player™ as an ActiveX control, and thus developers can now build multimedia experiences that script the Windows Media Player in Netscape 7.1, just as they do in Internet Explorer. Netscape 7.1 will work with both the Windows Media Player 6.4 ActiveX control as well as versions 7 through 9. This article explains how to embed the Windows Media Player ActiveX control in web pages to support Netscape 7.1, how to control the Windows Media Player ActiveX control using JavaScript and provides working examples. This article deals uniquely with Netscape 7.1 running on the Windows operating system.
XQuery
XQuery is a W3C standard language which is meant to be for XML what SQL is for relational data--i.e., the ability to search, sort, extract, and remold data. It offers powerful and yet intuitive searching based on XPath, has SQL-like syntax for the query portion, and has scripting features such as function and variable definitions, XML-inclusion, etc.
XUL Booster
XUL Booster is a third party Eclipse / WebTools build that offers some support for XUL Editing and awesome support for extension packaging.
XUL Parser in Python
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