Index - Web APIs
47 ambient light sensor api api, ambient light sensor api, ambientlightsensor, junk, landing, overview, reference no summary!
... 225 background tasks api api, background tasks api, guide, idledeadline, overview, cancelidlecallback, requestidlecallback the cooperative scheduling of background tasks api (also referred to as the background tasks api or simply the requestidlecallback() api) provides the ability to queue tasks to be executed automatically by the user agent when it determines that there is free time to do so.
... 263 battery status api api, apps, battery, battery api, battery status api, guide, mobile, obsolete, overview the battery status api, more often referred to as the battery api, provides information about the system's battery charge level and lets you be notified by events that are sent when the battery level or charging status change.
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Index - Archive of obsolete content
149 overview add-on sdk no summary!
...as a rough overview this is a version string split by periods, some examples: 240 extensions support in seamonkey 2 add-ons, codingscripting, extensions, javascript, seamonkey, url, thunderbird starting with seamonkey 2 alpha 1 seamonkey supports toolkit/-style extensions.
... 456 layout system overview gecko layout is primarily concerned with providing a presentation to an html or xml document.
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Index
12 index found 1275 pages: 13 interfacing with the xpcom cycle collector firefox 3, xpcom this is a quick overview of the cycle collector introduced into xpcom for firefox 3, including a description of the steps involved in modifying an existing c++ class to participate in xpcom cycle collection.
... 61 xpconnect wrappers guide, needscontent, xpcom, xpcom:language bindings, xpconnect this document is a high-level overview of xpconnect wrapper objects (for the more technical description see xpconnect security membranes).
... 101 an overview of xpcom xpcom this is a book about xpcom.
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mozIStorageStatement
inherits from: mozistoragevaluearray last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) for an introduction on how to use this interface, see the storage overview document.
... method overview void initialize(in mozistorageconnection adbconnection, in autf8string asqlstatement); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void finalize(); mozistoragestatement clone(); autf8string getparametername(in unsigned long aparamindex); unsigned long getparameterindex(in autf8string aname); autf8string getcolumnname(in unsigned long acolumnindex); unsigned long getcolumnindex(in autf8string aname); void reset(); astring escapestringforlike(in astring avalue, in wchar aescapechar); void bindparameters(in mozistoragebindingparamsarray aparameters); mozistoragebindingparamsarray newbindingparamsarray(); void bindutf8stringparameter(in unsigned long aparamindex, in autf8string avalue); ...
... see the overview document on storage for more details.
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Index
account interfaces provides an overview of the related interfaces.
... see an overview of thunderbird components for a general description of the thunderbird user interface and related programmatic interfaces.
...address book interfaces provides an overview of the related interfaces.
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Index of archived content - Archive of obsolete content
ckage.json tutorials add a context menu item add a menu item to firefox adding a button to the toolbar annotator creating annotations displaying annotations implementing the widget overview storing annotations chrome authority creating event targets creating reusable modules developing for firefox mobile display a popup getting started (jpm) getting started (cfx) list open tabs listen for page load ...
... block and line layout cheat sheet content states and the style system disabling interruptible reflow document loading - from load start to finding a handler documentation for bidi mozilla downloading nightly or trunk builds jss build instructions for osx 10.6 layout faq layout system overview multiple firefox profiles repackaging firefox style system overview using microformats firefox sync code snippets javascript client api syncing custom preferences force rtl gre gr...
...e registration gecko coding help wanted http class overview hacking wiki help viewer creating a help content pack helper apps (and a bit of save as) hidden prefs how to write and land nanojit patches io guide/directory keys introducing the audio api extension isp data java in firefox extensions javascript os.shared javascript crypto crmf request object generatecrmfrequest() importusercertificates popchallengeresponse jetpack basics ...
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UI Tour - Firefox Developer Tools
the performance tool's ui consists of 4 main pieces: toolbar recordings pane recording overview details pane, which may contain any one of: waterfall call tree flame chart toolbar the toolbar contains buttons to: start and stop a recording import a recording you previously saved clear the recordings pane.
... recording overview this displays an overview of the entire recording, with the x-axis representing time.
... it contains two elements: an overview of the waterfall and a frame rate graph.
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Index - Learn web development
at, accessibility, article, beginner, css, codingscripting, html, javascript, learn, tools, users, assistive technology, keyboard, screan reader, screenreader this article should have given you a useful high-level overview of accessibility, shown you why it's important, and looked at how you can fit it into your workflow.
... 144 grids article, beginner, css, css grids, codingscripting, grids, guide, layout, learn, tutorial, grid design, grid framework, grid system in this overview we have toured the main features of css grid layout.
... 220 client-server overview beginner, codingscripting, guide, intro, learn, server, server-side programming at this point you should have a good overview of the operations that server-side code has to perform, and know some of the ways in which a server-side web framework can make this easier.
...And 2 more matches

Server-side web frameworks - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next the previous article showed you what the communication between web clients and servers looks like, the nature of http requests and responses, and what a server-side web application needs to do in order to respond to requests from a web browser.
...basic understanding of how server-side code handles and responds to http requests (see client-server overview).
... overview server-side web frameworks (a.k.a.
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Mozilla
a bird's-eye view of the mozilla framework the purpose of this article is to provide a high-level technical overview of the architecture of the extensible, object-based mozilla application framework.
...see the gecko overview for more information about the style system.
... an introduction to hacking mozilla this guide introduces the mozilla project and provides an overview for developers interested in contributing to or exploring the various parts of the codebase.
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HTTP Index - HTTP
2 a typical http session http in client-server protocols, like http, sessions consist of three phases: 3 an overview of http html, http, overview, webmechanics, l10n:priority http isthe foundation of any data exchange on the web and it is a client-server protocol, which means requests are initiated by the recipient, usually the web browser.
... a complete document is reconstructed from the different sub-documents fetched, for instance text, layout description, images, videos, scripts, and more 4 basics of http guide, http, overview http is a pretty extensible protocol.
... 46 http headers http, http header, headers, networking, overview, reference http headers let the client and the server pass additional information with an http request or response.
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What is web performance? - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next web performance is all about making web sites fast, including making slow processes seem fast.
...see populating the page: how the browser works for a detailed overview.
... conclusion that's it for now; we hope our brief overview of the web performance topic helped you to get an idea of what it is all about, and made you excited to learn more.
... previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

source-editor.jsm
method overview initialization and destruction void destroy(); void init(element aelement, object aconfig, function acallback); search operations number find(string astring, [optional] object options); number findnext(boolean awrap); number findprevious(boolean awrap); event management void addeventlistener(string aeventtype, function aca...
...or.defaults.highlightcurrentline true sourceeditor.defaults.initialtext "" sourceeditor.defaults.keys null sourceeditor.defaults.mode sourceeditor.modes.text sourceeditor.defaults.readonly false sourceeditor.defaults.showannotationruler false sourceeditor.defaults.showlinenumbers false sourceeditor.defaults.showoverviewruler false sourceeditor.defaults.tabsize 4 sourceeditor.defaults.theme sourceeditor.themes.mozilla sourceeditor.defaults.undolimit 200 event name constants these constants provide the names of the editor events for which you can listen.
... showoverviewruler boolean a boolean value indicating whether or not to show the overview gutter/ruler.
... this presents an overview of the current annotations in the editor, such as the breakpoints.

Network Security Services
for detailed information on standards supported, see overview of nss.
... if you're a developer and would like to contribute to nss, you might want to read the documents highlevel overview of internal details of nss and getting started with nss.
... documentation background information overview of nss provides a brief summary of nss and its capabilities.
... nss apis introduction to network security services provides an overview of the nss libraries and what you need to know to use them.

Accessibility documentation index - Accessibility
here's where to file bugs: 13 using aria: roles, states, and properties aria, accessibility, overview, reference aria defines semantics that can be applied to elements, with these divided into roles (defining a type of user interface element) and states and properties that are supported by a role.
... 80 overview accessibility, javascript, landing, needsupdate here's a look at working examples and best practices in building accessible javascript widgets.
... 86 accessible dynamic content accessibility this content has been moved to an overview of accessible web applications and widgets.
... 87 an overview of accessible web applications and widgets aria, accessibility, guide, web apps, widget most javascript libraries offer a library of client-side widgets that mimic the behavior of familiar desktop interfaces.

Creating annotations - Archive of obsolete content
activate the annotator by clicking the widget and load a page: the screenshot below uses http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/02/04/ overview-amo-review-process/.
... you should see the highlight appearing when you move the mouse over certain elements: click on the highlight and you should see something like this in the console output: info: show info: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/02/04/overview-amo-review-process/, post-2249,when you submit a new add-on, you will have to choose between 2 review tracks: full review and preliminary review.
...you should see a panel with a text area for a note: enter the note and press the return key: you should see console output like this: info: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/02/04/overview-amo-review-process/, post-2249,when you submit a new add-on, you will have to choose between 2 review tracks: full review and preliminary review.

Chapter 4: Using XPCOM—Implementing advanced processes - Archive of obsolete content
listing 4: get active browser window netscape.security.privilegemanager .enableprivilege('universalxpconnect'); var windowmediator = components .classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiwindowmediator); var browser = windowmediator.getmostrecentwindow('navigator:browser'); alert(browser.gbrowser.mtabs.length); get overview of all windows with a certain type use the nsiwindowmediator.getenumerator() method to get an overview of all windows that have a certain type.
... listing 5: closing all browser windows var browsers = windowmediator.getenumerator('navigator:browser'); var browser; while (browsers.hasmoreelements()) { browser = browsers.getnext().queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsidomwindowinternal); browser.browsertrytoclosewindow(); } this method returns an overview of the specified window type in the form of an iterator pattern object called nsisimpleenumerator.
...this property returns a nsisimpleenumerator-type object similar to the window overview, so you can get each element using similar techniques.

What is accessibility? - Learn web development
overview: accessibility next this article starts the module off with a good look at what accessibility is — this overview includes what groups of people we need to consider and why, what tools different people use to interact with the web, and how we can make accessibility part of our web development workflow.
... summary this article should have given you a useful high-level overview of accessibility, shown you why it's important, and looked at how you can fit it into your workflow.
... overview: accessibility next in this module what is accessibility?

Grids - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next css grid layout is a two-dimensional layout system for the web.
... summary in this overview we have toured the main features of css grid layout.
... see also css grid guides css grid inspector: examine grid layouts previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Introduction to CSS layout - Learn web development
overview: css layout next this article will recap some of the css layout features we've already touched upon in previous modules — such as different display values — and introduce some of the concepts we'll be covering throughout this module.
... prerequisites: the basics of html (study introduction to html), and an idea of how css works (study introduction to css.) objective: to give you an overview of css page layout techniques.
... overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Measuring performance - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next meauring performance provides an important metric to help you asses the success of your app, site, or web service.
... conclusion this article provided a brief overview of the web performance metrics to help introduce you to what you can measure on a web app or site.
... previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

Introduction to client-side frameworks - Learn web development
overview: client-side javascript frameworks next we begin our look at frameworks with a general overview of the area, looking at a brief history of javascript and frameworks, why frameworks exist and what they give us, how to start thinking about choosing a framework to learn, and what alternatives there are to client-side frameworks.
... note: if you want to find out more details about web tooling concepts, have a read of our client-side tooling overview.
... overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Framework main features - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next each major javascript framework has a different approach to updating the dom, handling browser events, and providing an enjoyable developer experience.
... this diagram of a react component's lifecycle offers a general overview of the concept.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Command line crash course - Learn web development
previous overview: understanding client-side tools next in your development process you'll undoubtedly be required to run some command in the terminal (or on the "command line" — these are effectively the same thing).
... a great resource for getting a quick overview of specific terminal commands is tldr.sh.
... previous overview: understanding client-side tools next in this module client-side tooling overview command line crash course package management basics introducing a complete toolchain deploying our app ...

Localization sign-off reviews
this article presents an overview of why we do sign-off reviews of localizations, the details on the criteria used for the sign-off reviews, and the process for requesting a review and for following its progress.
... overview you've done some localization work and are ready for it to be released.
...here is a detailed overview of what a sign-off review is and who it's meant for: a sign-off review: is performed as a qa measure for maintaining a localization from release-to-release.

Index
2 an overview of nss internals api, intermediate, intro, nss, tools a high-level overview to the internals of network security services (nss) software developed by the mozilla.org projects traditionally used its own implementation of security protocols and cryptographic algorithms, originally called netscape security services, nowadays called network security services (nss).
...for a general overview of nss and the standards it supports, see overview of nss.
... 328 nss_3.12.3_release_notes.html newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto 329 overview of nss nss if you want to add support for ssl, s/mime, or other internet security standards to your application, you can use network security services (nss) to implement all your security features.

The Necko HTTP module
notes class overview this document provides an overview of the classes used to implement the http module.
... pipelining faq this document gives an overview of http/1.1 pipelining by answering some frequently asked questions.
... caching faq this document gives an overview of how http caching is implemented in necko.

DocShell
overview of a uri load up though dispatch to a content handler.
... overview of a uri load in general (more bird's-eye view).
... overview of how downloads work.

Creating XPCOM components
preface who should read this book organization of the tutorial following along with the examples conventions acknowledgements an overview of xpcom the xpcom solution gecko components interfaces interfaces and encapsulation the nsisupports base interface xpcom identifiers cid contract id factories xpidl and type libraries xpcom services xpcom types method types reference counting status codes variable mappings common xpcom error codes using xpcom components component example...
... creating components in cpp xpcom initialization xpcom registry manifests registration methods in xpcom autoregistration the shutdown process three parts of a xpcom component library xpcom glue the glue library xpcom string classes creating the component code what we'll be working on component registration the regxpcom program registration alternatives overview of the weblock module source digging in: required includes and constants identifiers in xpcom coding for the registration process the registration methods creating an instance of your component weblock1.cpp using xpcom utilities to make things easier xpcom macros generic xpcom module macros common implementation macros declaration macros weblock2.cpp string cla...
...sites hasmoreelements finishing the component using frozen interfaces copying interfaces into your build environment implementing the nsicontentpolicy interface receiving notifications implementing the nsicontentpolicy uniform resource locators checking the white list creating nsiuri objects building the weblock ui user interface package list client code overview xul the xul document the locking ui site adding ui weblock.xul overlaying new user interface into mozilla weblockoverlay.xul other resources weblock.css image resources packaging weblock component installation overview archiving resources the weblock installation script the weblock trigger script distributing your component appendix a - setting up the...

Gecko Plugin API Reference - Plugins
plug-in basics how plug-ins are used plug-ins and helper applications how plug-ins work understanding the runtime model plug-in detection how gecko finds plug-ins checking plug-ins by mime type overview of plug-in structure understanding the plug-in api plug-ins and platform independence windowed and windowless plug-ins the default plug-in using html to display plug-ins plug-in display modes using the object element for plug-in display nesting rules for html elements using the appropriate attributes using the embed element for plug-in display using custom embed attributes plug-in references plug-in development overview writing plug-ins registering plug-ins ms windows unix mac os x drawing a...
...for an overview of how these two sides of the plug-in api interact, see the how plug-ins work and overview of plug-in structure sections in the introduction.
...for an overview of how these two sides of the plug-in api interact, see the how plug-ins work and overview of plug-in structure sections in the introduction.

Flame Chart - Firefox Developer Tools
here's a screenshot showing the flame chart for a section of a profile: first of all, you'll see that, in the recording overview pane, we've selected a small slice of the recording to view in the flame chart.
... pan: move the selected portion of the complete profile left and right 1) click and drag the selected portion in the recording overview pane.
...there's a separate page that gives an overview of this program's structure.

Animating CSS properties - Firefox Developer Tools
exactly what you'll see depends a lot on your machine and system load, but it will be something like this: this is showing three distinct views: (a) an overview of the waterfall, (b) the frame rate, and (c) the timeline details.
... waterfall overview this is showing a compressed view of the waterfall.
...it will look something like this: waterfall overview compared with the version that uses margin, we're seeing a lot less green and a lot more pink, which could be either layout or style recalculation.

Window.pageYOffset - Web APIs
quisque vel turpis justo.</p> <h2 id="overview">overview</h2> <p>lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
... <iframe id="frame"> </iframe> <div id="info"> </div> javascript var frame = document.getelementbyid("frame"); var framedoc = frame.contentdocument; var info = document.getelementbyid("info"); var target = framedoc.getelementbyid("overview"); framedoc.scrollingelement.scrolltop = target.offsettop; info.innertext = "y offset after scrolling: " + frame.contentwindow.pageyoffset + " pixels"; the javascript code begins by getting into frame and info the <iframe> element that contains our content as well as the <div> element into which we'll output the result of our scroll position check.
...note that the frame's contents have been scrolled to show the section named "overview", and that the value of the pageyoffset property is shown with the corresponding value.

Web applications and ARIA FAQ - Accessibility
for more information about how to create accessible widgets with aria, see the overview of accessible web applications and widgets.
...for more information, steve faulkner has written a good overview of the relationship between html5 and aria.
... an overview of accessible web applications and widgets accessible forms the w3c's wai-aria frequently asked questions webaim's accessibility of rich internet applications ...

Animation performance and frame rate - Web Performance
exactly what you'll see depends a lot on your machine and system load, but it will be something like this: this is showing three distinct views: (a) an overview of the waterfall, (b) the frame rate, and (c) the timeline details.
... waterfall overview this is showing a compressed view of the waterfall.
...it will look something like this: waterfall overview compared with the version that uses margin, we're seeing a lot less green and a lot more pink, which could be either layout or style recalculation.

How to make PWAs re-engageable using Notifications and Push - Progressive web apps (PWAs)
previous overview: progressive next having the ability to cache the contents of an app to work offline is a great feature.
...we will only provide a high-level overview here.
... previous overview: progressive next ...

Annotator - Archive of obsolete content
next we'll give a quick overview of the annotator's design, then go through the implementation, step by step.
... design overview implementing the widget creating annotations storing annotations displaying annotations ...

StringView - Archive of obsolete content
manual methods overview constructor stringview new stringview(stringview input, optional domstring encoding, optional unsigned long startoffset, optional unsigned long length); stringview new stringview(domstring input, optional domstring encoding, optional unsigned long startoffset, optional unsigned long length); stringview new stringview(unsigned long input); stringview new stringview(a...
...oolean wholebuffer); stringview stringview.subview(unsigned long characteroffset, optional unsigned long characterslength); void stringview.foreachchar(function callback, optional object thisobject, optional unsigned long characteroffset, optional unsigned long characterslength); domstring stringview.valueof(); domstring stringview.tostring(); properties overview attribute type description encoding read only domstring a string expressing the encoding type.

Extension Versioning, Update and Compatibility - Archive of obsolete content
as a rough overview this is a version string split by periods, some examples: 2.0 1.0b1 3.0pre1 5.0.1.2 note: before firefox 1.5 the more basic firefox version format was used: major.minor.release.build[+] where only digits were allowed.
...this is visible when the user gets an add-on update notification and should be used to give a quick overview of what new features have been added and any security issues that have been resolved.

Space Manager Detailed Design - Archive of obsolete content
overview the space manager and related classes and structures are an important of the gecko layout system, specifically block layout.
... see the high level design document for an overview of the space manager, and as an introduction to the classes, structures and algorithms container in this, the detailed design document.

Tamarin - Archive of obsolete content
documentation adobe actionscript virtual machine 2 (avm2) overview (pdf, 400k) the instructions, architecture, and file format supported by the avm2.
... mmgc overview an overview of the tamarin garbage collector.

Creating XPI Installer Modules - Archive of obsolete content
what follows is a very brief overview of the design and a description of what mozilla expects in installable packages.
...package creation overview this tutorial describes the following sequence of steps for creating a new package: developing the resources organizing the resources creating the contents.rdf file making the barley install script creating a xpi you can examine (or install!) the package described here by downloading the barley xpi file and using a zip unarchiver[zip] to open it.

XUL accessibility guidelines - Archive of obsolete content
overview of web accessibility from webaim.
... learn more captioning webaim article: web captioning overview webaim resource: captioning resources animation animation, movement, and audio can all be distracting to some users with attention disorders.

Archived Mozilla and build documentation - Archive of obsolete content
http class overview this document provides an overview of the classes used by the mozilla http implementation.
...see the high level design document for an overview of the space manager, and as an introduction to the classes, structures and algorithms container in this, the detailed design document.

NPAPI plugin developer guide - Archive of obsolete content
plug-in basics how plug-ins are used plug-ins and helper applications how plug-ins work understanding the runtime model plug-in detection how gecko finds plug-ins checking plug-ins by mime type overview of plug-in structure understanding the plug-in api plug-ins and platform independence windowed and windowless plug-ins the default plug-in using html to display plug-ins plug-in display modes using the object element for plug-in display nesting rules for html elements using the appropriate attributes using the embed element for plug-in display using custom em...
...bed attributes plug-in references plug-in development overview writing plug-ins registering plug-ins ms windows unix mac os x drawing a plug-in instance handling memory sending and receiving streams working with urls getting version and ui information displaying messages on the status line making plug-ins scriptable building plug-ins building, platforms, and compilers building carbonized plug-ins for mac os x type libraries installing plug-ins native installers xpi plug-ins installations plug-in installation and the windows registry initialization and destruction initialization instance creation instance destruction shutdown initialize and shutdown example drawing and event handling the npwindow structure drawing ...

Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography - Archive of obsolete content
for an overview of ssl, see "introduction to ssl." for an overview of encryption and decryption, see "encryption and decryption." information on digital signatures is available from "digital signatures." public-key cryptography is a set of well-established techniques and standards for protecting communications from eavesdropping, tampering, and impersonation attacks.
... for an overview of client authentication over ssl and how it differs from password-based authentication, see "authentication confirms an identity".

Desktop gamepad controls - Game development
previous overview: control mechanisms next now we'll look at adding something extra — support for gamepad controls, via the gamepad api.
... previous overview: control mechanisms next ...

Desktop mouse and keyboard controls - Game development
previous overview: control mechanisms next now when we have our mobile controls in place and the game is playable on touch-enabled devices, it would be good to add mouse and keyboard support, so the game can be playable also on desktop.
... previous overview: control mechanisms next ...

Mobile touch controls - Game development
overview: control mechanisms next the future of mobile gaming is definitely web, and many developers choose the mobile first approach in their game development process — in the modern world, this generally also involves implementing touch controls.
... overview: control mechanisms next ...

Unconventional controls - Game development
previous overview: control mechanisms having different control mechanisms in your game helps reach broader audiences.
... previous overview: control mechanisms ...

Assessment: Accessibility troubleshooting - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility in the assessment for this module, we present to you a simple site with a number of accessibility issues that you need to diagnose and fix.
... previous overview: accessibility in this module what is accessibility?

CSS and JavaScript accessibility best practices - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility next css and javascript, when used properly, also have the potential to allow for accessible web experiences ...
... previous overview: accessibility next in this module what is accessibility?

HTML: A good basis for accessibility - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility next a great deal of web content can be made accessible just by making sure the correct hypertext markup language elements are used for the correct purpose at all times.
... previous overview: accessibility next in this module what is accessibility?

HTML: A good basis for accessibility - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility next a great deal of web content can be made accessible just by making sure the correct hypertext markup language elements are used for the correct purpose at all times.
... previous overview: accessibility next in this module what is accessibility?

Accessible multimedia - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility next another category of content that can create accessibility problems is multimedia — video, audio, and image content need to be given proper textual alternatives so they can be understood by assistive technologies and their users.
... previous overview: accessibility next in this module what is accessibility?

Backgrounds and borders - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next in this lesson, we will take a look at some of the creative things you can do with css backgrounds and borders.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Cascade and inheritance - Learn web development
overview: building blocks next the aim of this lesson is to develop your understanding of some of the most fundamental concepts of css — the cascade, specificity, and inheritance — which control how css is applied to html and how conflicts are resolved.
... overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Debugging CSS - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next sometimes when writing css you will encounter an issue where your css doesn't seem to be doing what you expect.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Handling different text directions - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next many of the properties and values that we have encountered so far in our css learning have been tied to the physical dimensions of our screen.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Images, media, and form elements - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next in this lesson we will take a look at how certain special elements are treated in css.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging css org...

Organizing your CSS - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks as you start to work on larger stylesheets and big projects you will discover that maintaining a huge css file can be challenging.
... previous overview: building blocks in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging css orga...

Overflowing content - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next overflow is what happens when there is too much content to fit in a container.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Attribute selectors - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next as you know from your study of html, elements can have attributes that give further detail about the element being marked up.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Combinators - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next the final selectors we will look at are called combinators, because they combine other selectors in a way that gives them a useful relationship to each other and the location of content in the document.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next the next set of selectors we will look at are referred to as pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Type, class, and ID selectors - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next in this lesson we will take a look at the simplest selectors that are available, which you will probably use the most in your work.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

CSS selectors - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next in css, selectors are used to target the html elements on our web pages that we want to style.
... previous overview: building blocks next reference table of selectors the below table gives you an overview of the selectors you have available to use, along with links to the pages in this guide which will show you how to use each type of selector.

Sizing items in CSS - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next in the various lessons so far you have come across a number of ways to size items on a web page using css.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Styling tables - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next styling an html table isn't the most glamorous job in the world, but sometimes we all have to do it.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

The box model - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next everything in css has a box around it, and understanding these boxes is key to being able to create layouts with css, or to align items with other items.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

CSS values and units - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next every property used in css has a value or set of values that are allowed for that property, and taking a look at any property page on mdn will help you understand the values that are valid for any particular property.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module cascade and inheritance css selectors type, class, and id selectors attribute selectors pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements combinators the box model backgrounds and borders handling different text directions overflowing content values and units sizing items in css images, media, and form elements styling tables debugging cs...

Flexbox - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next flexbox is a one-dimensional layout method for laying out items in rows or columns.
... previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Floats - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next originally for floating images inside blocks of text, the float property became one of the most commonly used tools for creating multiple column layouts on webpages.
... previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Legacy layout methods - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next grid systems are a very common feature used in css layouts, and before css grid layout they tended to be implemented using floats or other layout features.
... previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Beginner's guide to media queries - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next the css media query gives you a way to apply css only when the browser and device environment matches a rule that you specify, for example "viewport is wider than 480 pixels".
... previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Normal Flow - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next this article explains normal flow, or the way that webpage elements lay themselves out if you have not changed their layout.
... previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Positioning - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next positioning allows you to take elements out of the normal document layout flow, and make them behave differently; for example sitting on top of one another, or always remaining in the same place inside the browser viewport.
... previous overview: css layout next ...

Responsive design - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next in the early days of web design, pages were built to target a particular screen size.
... previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Supporting older browsers - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next in this module, we recommend using flexbox and grid as the main layout methods for your designs.
... cascading web design with feature queries using feature queries (video) previous overview: css layout next in this module introduction to css layout normal flow flexbox grid floats positioning multiple-column layout responsive design beginner's guide to media queries legacy layout methods supporting older browsers fundamental layout comprehension assessment ...

Getting started with CSS - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next in this article we will take a simple html document and apply css to it, learning some practical things about the language along the way.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is css?

How CSS is structured - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next now that you are beginning to understanding the purpose and use of css, let's examine the structure of css.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is css?

How CSS works - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next we have learned the basics of css, what it is for and how to write simple stylesheets.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is css?

Using your new knowledge - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps with the things you have learned in the last few lessons you should find that you can format simple text documents using css, to add your own style to them.
... previous overview: first steps in this module what is css?

What is CSS? - Learn web development
overview: first steps next css (cascading style sheets) allows you to create great-looking web pages, but how does it work under the hood?
... overview: first steps next in this module what is css?

Fundamental text and font styling - Learn web development
overview: styling text next in this article we'll start you on your journey towards mastering text styling with css.
... overview: styling text next in this module fundamental text and font styling styling lists styling links web fonts typesetting a community school homepage ...

Styling links - Learn web development
previous overview: styling text next when styling links, it is important to understand how to make use of pseudo-classes to style link states effectively, and how to style links for use in common varied interface features such as navigation menus and tabs.
... previous overview: styling text next in this module fundamental text and font styling styling lists styling links web fonts typesetting a community school homepage ...

Typesetting a community school homepage - Learn web development
previous overview: styling text in this assessment we'll test your understanding of all the text styling techniques we've covered throughout this module by getting you to style the text for a community school's homepage.
... previous overview: styling text in this module fundamental text and font styling styling lists styling links web fonts typesetting a community school homepage ...

Web fonts - Learn web development
previous overview: styling text next in the first article of the module, we explored the basic css features available for styling fonts and text.
... previous overview: styling text next in this module fundamental text and font styling styling lists styling links web fonts typesetting a community school homepage ...

Advanced form styling - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next in this article, we will see what can be done with css to style the types of form control that are more difficult to style — the "bad" and "ugly" categories.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

Basic native form controls - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next in the previous article, we marked up a functional web form example, introducing some form controls and common structural elements, and focusing on accessibility best practices.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

Client-side form validation - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next before submitting data to the server, it is important to ensure all required form controls are filled out, in the correct format.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

The HTML5 input types - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next in the previous article we looked at the <input> element, covering the original values of the type attribute available since the early days of html.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

How to structure a web form - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next with the basics out of the way, we'll now look in more detail at the elements used to provide structure and meaning to the different parts of a form.
... see also a list apart: sensible forms: a form usability checklist previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

Other form controls - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next we now look at the functionality of non-<input> form elements in detail, from other control types such as drop-down lists and multi-line text fields, to other useful form features such as the <output> element (which we saw in action in the previous article), and progress bars.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

Styling web forms - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next in the previous few articles we looked at all the html you'll need to create and structure your web forms.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

UI pseudo-classes - Learn web development
previous overview: forms next in the previous articles, we covered the styling of various form controls, in a general manner.
... previous overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

Your first form - Learn web development
overview: forms next the first article in our series provides you with your very first experience of creating a web form, including designing a simple form, implementing it using the right html form controls and other html elements, adding some very simple styling via css, and describing how data is sent to a server.
... overview: forms next in this module your first form how to structure a web form basic native form controls the html5 input types other form controls styling web forms advanced form styling ui pseudo-classes client-side form validation sending form data advanced topics how to build custom form controls sending forms through javascript property compatibility table for form widgets ...

CSS basics - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web next css (cascading style sheets) is the code that styles web content.
... previous overview: getting started with the web next in this module installing basic software what will your website look like?

Dealing with files - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web next a website consists of many files: text content, code, stylesheets, media content, and so on.
...your folder structure should look something like this: previous overview: getting started with the web next in this module installing basic software what will your website look like?

HTML basics - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web next html (hypertext markup language) is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content.
... previous overview: getting started with the web next in this module installing basic software what will your website look like?

Installing basic software - Learn web development
overview: getting started with the web next in installing basic software, we show you what tools you need to do simple web development and how to install them properly.
... overview: getting started with the web next in this module installing basic software what will your website look like?

Publishing your website - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web next once you finish writing the code and organizing the files that make up your website, you need to put it all online so people can find it.
... previous overview: getting started with the web next in this module installing basic software what will your website look like?

What will your website look like? - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web next what will your website look like?
... previous overview: getting started with the web next in this module installing basic software what will your website look like?

Advanced text formatting - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next there are many other elements in html for formatting text, which we didn't get to in the html text fundamentals article.
... previous overview: introduction to html next in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

Creating hyperlinks - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next hyperlinks are really important — they are what makes the web a web.
... previous overview: introduction to html next in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

Debugging HTML - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next writing html is fine, but what if something goes wrong, and you can't work out where the error in the code is?
... previous overview: introduction to html next in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

HTML text fundamentals - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next one of html's main jobs is to give text structure and meaning (also known as semantics) so that a browser can display it correctly.
... previous overview: introduction to html next in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

Marking up a letter - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next we all learn to write a letter sooner or later; it is also a useful example to test our text formatting skills.
... previous overview: introduction to html next in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

Structuring a page of content - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html structuring a page of content ready for laying it out using css is a very important skill to master, so in this assessment you'll be tested on your ability to think about how a page might end up looking, and choose appropriate structural semantics to build a layout on top of.
... previous overview: introduction to html in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

What’s in the head? Metadata in HTML - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next the head of an html document is the part that is not displayed in the web browser when the page is loaded.
... previous overview: introduction to html next in this module getting started with html what’s in the head?

Images in HTML - Learn web development
overview: multimedia and embedding next in the beginning, the web was just text, and it was really quite boring.
... overview: multimedia and embedding next in this module images in html video and audio content from <object> to <iframe> — other embedding technologies adding vector graphics to the web responsive images mozilla splash page ...

Mozilla splash page - Learn web development
previous overview: multimedia and embedding in this assessment, we'll test your knowledge of some of the techniques discussed in this module's articles, getting you to add some images and video to a funky splash page all about mozilla!
... previous overview: multimedia and embedding in this module images in html video and audio content from <object> to <iframe> — other embedding technologies adding vector graphics to the web responsive images mozilla splash page ...

From object to iframe — other embedding technologies - Learn web development
previous overview: multimedia and embedding next by now you should really be getting the hang of embedding things into your web pages, including images, video and audio.
... previous overview: multimedia and embedding next in this module images in html video and audio content from <object> to <iframe> — other embedding technologies adding vector graphics to the web responsive images mozilla splash page ...

HTML table advanced features and accessibility - Learn web development
previous overview: tables next in the second article in this module, we look at some more advanced features of html tables — such as captions/summaries and grouping your rows into table head, body and footer sections — as well as looking at the accessibility of tables for visually impaired users.
... previous overview: tables next in this module html table basics html table advanced features and accessibility structuring planet data ...

HTML table basics - Learn web development
overview: tables next this article gets you started with html tables, covering the very basics such as rows and cells, headings, making cells span multiple columns and rows, and how to group together all the cells in a column for styling purposes.
... overview: tables next in this module html table basics html table advanced features and accessibility structuring planet data ...

Assessment: Structuring planet data - Learn web development
previous overview: tables in our table assessment, we provide you with some data on the planets in our solar system, and get you to structure it into an html table.
... previous overview: tables in this module html table basics html table advanced features and accessibility structuring planet data ...

Making asynchronous programming easier with async and await - Learn web development
previous overview: asynchronous next more recent additions to the javascript language are async functions and the await keyword, part of the so-called ecmascript 2017 javascript edition (see ecmascript next support in mozilla).
... previous overview: asynchronous next in this module general asynchronous programming concepts introducing asynchronous javascript cooperative asynchronous javascript: timeouts and intervals graceful asynchronous programming with promises making asynchronous programming easier with async and await choosing the right approach ...

Choosing the right approach - Learn web development
previous overview: asynchronous to finish this module off, we'll provide a brief discussion of the different coding techniques and features we've discussed throughout, looking at which one you should use when, with recommendations and reminders of common pitfalls where appropriate.
... further information making asynchronous programming easier with async and await async function reference await operator reference previous overview: asynchronous in this module general asynchronous programming concepts introducing asynchronous javascript cooperative asynchronous javascript: timeouts and intervals graceful asynchronous programming with promises making asynchronous programming easier with async and await choosing the right approach ...

Introducing asynchronous JavaScript - Learn web development
previous overview: asynchronous next in this article we briefly recap the problems associated with synchronous javascript, and take a first look at some of the different asynchronous techniques you'll encounter, showing how they can help us solve such problems.
... previous overview: asynchronous next in this module general asynchronous programming concepts introducing asynchronous javascript cooperative asynchronous javascript: timeouts and intervals graceful asynchronous programming with promises making asynchronous programming easier with async and await choosing the right approach ...

Cooperative asynchronous JavaScript: Timeouts and intervals - Learn web development
previous overview: asynchronous next this tutorial looks at the traditional methods javascript has available for running code asychronously after a set time period has elapsed, or at a regular interval (e.g.
... previous overview: asynchronous next in this module general asynchronous programming concepts introducing asynchronous javascript cooperative asynchronous javascript: timeouts and intervals graceful asynchronous programming with promises making asynchronous programming easier with async and await choosing the right approach ...

Build your own function - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next with most of the essential theory dealt with in the previous article, this article provides practical experience.
... previous overview: building blocks next in this module making decisions in your code — conditionals looping code functions — reusable blocks of code build your own function function return values introduction to events image gallery ...

Image gallery - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks now that we've looked at the fundamental building blocks of javascript, we'll test your knowledge of loops, functions, conditionals and events by getting you to build a fairly common item you'll see on a lot of websites — a javascript-powered image gallery.
... previous overview: building blocks in this module making decisions in your code — conditionals looping code functions — reusable blocks of code build your own function function return values introduction to events image gallery ...

Introduction to web APIs - Learn web development
overview: client-side web apis next first up, we'll start by looking at apis from a high level — what are they, how do they work, how to use them in your code, and how are they structured?
... overview: client-side web apis next in this module introduction to web apis manipulating documents fetching data from the server third-party apis drawing graphics video and audio apis client-side storage ...

Third-party APIs - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side web apis next the apis we've covered so far are built into the browser, but not all apis are.
... previous overview: client-side web apis next in this module introduction to web apis manipulating documents fetching data from the server third party apis drawing graphics video and audio apis client-side storage ...

A first splash into JavaScript - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next now you've learned something about the theory of javascript, and what you can do with it, we are going to give you a crash course in the basic features of javascript via a completely practical tutorial.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is javascript?

Basic math in JavaScript — numbers and operators - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next at this point in the course we discuss math in javascript — how we can use operators and other features to successfully manipulate numbers to do our bidding.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is javascript?

Silly story generator - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps in this assessment you'll be tasked with taking some of the knowledge you've picked up in this module's articles and applying it to creating a fun app that generates random silly stories.
... previous overview: first steps in this module what is javascript?

Handling text — strings in JavaScript - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next next, we'll turn our attention to strings — this is what pieces of text are called in programming.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is javascript?

Useful string methods - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next now that we've looked at the very basics of strings, let's move up a gear and start thinking about what useful operations we can do on strings with built-in methods, such as finding the length of a text string, joining and splitting strings, substituting one character in a string for another, and more.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is javascript?

Storing the information you need — Variables - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next after reading the last couple of articles you should now know what javascript is, what it can do for you, how you use it alongside other web technologies, and what its main features look like from a high level.
... previous overview: first steps next in this module what is javascript?

What is JavaScript? - Learn web development
overview: first steps next welcome to the mdn beginner's javascript course!
... overview: first steps next in this module what is javascript?

Adding features to our bouncing balls demo - Learn web development
previous overview: objects in this assessment, you are expected to use the bouncing balls demo from the previous article as a starting point, and add some new and interesting features to it.
... previous overview: objects in this module object basics object-oriented javascript for beginners object prototypes inheritance in javascript working with json data object building practice adding features to our bouncing balls demo ...

JavaScript object basics - Learn web development
overview: objects next in this article, we'll look at fundamental javascript object syntax, and revisit some javascript features that we've already seen earlier in the course, reiterating the fact that many of the features you've already dealt with are objects.
... overview: objects next in this module object basics object-oriented javascript for beginners object prototypes inheritance in javascript working with json data object building practice adding features to our bouncing balls demo ...

Object-oriented JavaScript for beginners - Learn web development
previous overview: objects next with the basics out of the way, we'll now focus on object-oriented javascript (oojs) — this article presents a basic view of object-oriented programming (oop) theory, then explores how javascript emulates object classes via constructor functions, and how to create object instances.
... previous overview: objects next in this module object basics object-oriented javascript for beginners object prototypes inheritance in javascript working with json data object building practice adding features to our bouncing balls demo ...

Object prototypes - Learn web development
previous overview: objects next prototypes are the mechanism by which javascript objects inherit features from one another.
... previous overview: objects next in this module object basics object-oriented javascript for beginners object prototypes inheritance in javascript working with json data object building practice adding features to our bouncing balls demo ...

CSS performance optimization - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next painting an unstyled page, and then repainting it once styles are parsed would be bad user experience.
... conclusion previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

HTML performance features - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next html is by default fast and accessible.
... elements & attributes impacting performance the <picture> element the <video> element the <source> element the <img> srcset attribute responsive images preloading content with rel="preload" - (https://w3c.github.io/preload/ ) async / defer attributes <iframe> <object> <script> rel attribute conclusion previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

Multimedia: Images - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next media, namely images and video, account for over 70% of the bytes downloaded for the average website.
... previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

Perceived performance - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next perceived performance is how fast a website seems to the user.
... previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

The business case for web performance - Learn web development
previous overview: performance we've discussed the importance of web performance.
... previous overview: performance in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

JavaScript performance - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next while images and video account for over 70% of the bytes downloaded for the average website, byte per byte, javascript has a greater negative impact on performance.
... previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

Multimedia: video - Learn web development
previous overview: performance next as we learned in the previous section, media, namely images and video, account for over 70% of the bytes downloaded for the average website.
... previous overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

The "why" of web performance - Learn web development
overview: performance next web performance is all about making websites fast, including making slow processes seem fast.
... overview: performance next in this module the "why" of web performance what is web performance?

Introduction to the server side - Learn web development
overview: first steps next welcome to the mdn beginner's server-side programming course!
... overview: first steps next in this module introduction to the server side client-server overview server-side web frameworks website security ...

Website security - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps website security requires vigilance in all aspects of website design and usage.
... previous overview: first steps in this module introduction to the server side client-server overview server-side web frameworks website security ...

Server-side website programming first steps - Learn web development
we then provide an overview of some of the most popular server-side web frameworks, along with guidance on how to select the most suitable framework for creating your first site.
... client-server overview now that you know the purpose and potential benefits of server-side programming, we're going to examine in detail what happens when a server receives a "dynamic request" from a browser.

Ember Interactivity: Footer functionality, conditional rendering - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now it's time to start tackling the footer functionality in our app.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Getting started with Ember - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in our first ember article we will look at how ember works and what it's useful for, install the ember toolchain locally, create a sample app, and then do some initial setup to get it ready for development.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Ember interactivity: Events, classes and state - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next at this point we'll start adding some interactivity to our app, providing the ability to add and display new todo items.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Ember resources and troubleshooting - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next our final ember article provides you with a list of resources that you can use to go further in your learning, plus some useful troubleshooting and other information.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Routing in Ember - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this article we learn about routing, or url-based filtering as it is sometimes referred to.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Ember app structure and componentization - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this article we'll get right on with planning out the structure of our todomvc ember app, adding in the html for it, and then breaking that html structure into components.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Accessibility in React - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in our final tutorial article, we'll focus on (pun intended) accessibility, including focus management in react, which can improve usability and reduce confusion for both keyboard-only and screenreader users.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Componentizing our React app - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next at this point, our app is a monolith.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Getting started with React - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this article we will say hello to react.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

React interactivity: Events and state - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next with our component plan worked out, it's now time to start updating our app from a completely static ui to one that actually allows us to interact and change things.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

React interactivity: Editing, filtering, conditional rendering - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next as we near the end of our react journey (for now at least), we'll add the finishing touches to the main areas of functionality in our todo list app.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

React resources - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next our final article provides you with a list of react resources that you can use to go further in your learning.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Beginning our React todo list - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next let's say that we’ve been tasked with creating a proof-of-concept in react – an app that allows users to add, edit, and delete tasks they want to work on, and also mark tasks as complete without deleting them.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Starting our Svelte Todo list app - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now that we have a basic understanding of how things work in svelte, we can start building our example app: a todo list.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

TypeScript support in Svelte - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in the last article we learned about svelte stores and even implemented our own custom store to persist the app's information to web storage.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Componentizing our Svelte app - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in the last article we started developing our todo list app.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Deployment and next steps - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks in the previous article we learning about svelte's typescript support, and how to use it to make your application more robust.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember getti...

Getting started with Svelte - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this article we'll provide a quick introduction to the svelte framework.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Advanced Svelte: Reactivity, lifecycle, accessibility - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in the last article we added more features to our to-do list and started to organize our app into components.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Working with Svelte stores - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in the last article we completed the development of our app, finished organizing it into components, and discussed some advanced techniques for dealing with reactivity, working with dom nodes, and exposing component functionality.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Dynamic behavior in Svelte: working with variables and props - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now that we have our markup and styles ready we can start developing the required features for our svelte to-do list app.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Using Vue computed properties - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this article we'll add a counter that displays the number of completed todo items, using a feature of vue called computed properties.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Vue conditional rendering: editing existing todos - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now it is time to add one of the major parts of functionality that we're still missing — the ability to edit existing todo items.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Creating our first Vue component - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now it's time to dive deeper into vue, and create our own custom component — we'll start by creating a component to represent each item in the todo list.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Getting started with Vue - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now let's introduce vue, the third of our frameworks.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Adding a new todo form: Vue events, methods, and models - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next we now have sample data in place, and a loop that takes each bit of data and renders it inside a todoitem in our app.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Focus management with Vue refs - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next we are nearly done with vue.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Rendering a list of Vue components - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next at this point we've got a fully working component; we're now ready to add multiple todoitem components to our app.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Vue resources - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next now we'll round off our study of vue by giving you a list of resources that you can use to go further in your learning, plus some other useful tips.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Styling Vue components with CSS - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next the time has finally come to make our app look a bit nicer.
... previous overview: client-side javascript frameworks next in this module introduction to client-side frameworks framework main features react getting started with react beginning our react todo list componentizing our react app react interactivity: events and state react interactivity: editing, filtering, conditional rendering accessibility in react react resources ember ...

Handling common accessibility problems - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing next next we turn our attention to accessibility, providing information on common problems, how to do simple testing, and how to make use of auditing/automation tools for finding accessibility issues.
... previous overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Introduction to automated testing - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing next manually running tests on several browsers and devices, several times per day, can get tedious, and time-consuming.
... previous overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Implementing feature detection - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing next feature detection involves working out whether a browser supports a certain block of code, and running different code depending on whether it does (or doesn't), so that the browser can always provide a working experience rather than crashing/erroring in some browsers.
... previous overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Handling common HTML and CSS problems - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing next with the scene set, we'll now look specifically at the common cross-browser problems you will come across in html and css code, and what tools can be used to prevent problems from happening, or fix problems that occur.
... previous overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Introduction to cross browser testing - Learn web development
overview: cross browser testing next this article starts the module off by providing an overview of the topic of (cross) browser testing, answering questions such as "what is cross browser testing?", "what are the most common types of problems you'll encounter?", and "what are the main approaches for testing, identifying, and fixing problems?" prerequisites: familiarity with the core html, css, and javascript languages.
... overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Handling common JavaScript problems - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing next now we'll look at common cross-browser javascript problems and how to fix them.
... previous overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Strategies for carrying out testing - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing next this article starts the module off by providing an overview of the topic of (cross) browser testing, answering questions such as "what is cross-browser testing?", "what are the most common types of problems you'll encounter?", and "what are the main approaches for testing, identifying, and fixing problems?" prerequisites: familiarity with the core html, css, and javascript languages; an idea of the high level principles of cross-browser testing.
... previous overview: cross browser testing next in this module introduction to cross-browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Setting up your own test automation environment - Learn web development
previous overview: cross browser testing in this article, we will teach you how to install your own automation environment and run your own tests using selenium/webdriver and a testing library such as selenium-webdriver for node.
... previous overview: cross browser testing in this module introduction to cross browser testing strategies for carrying out testing handling common html and css problems handling common javascript problems handling common accessibility problems implementing feature detection introduction to automated testing setting up your own test automation environment ...

Deploying our app - Learn web development
previous overview: understanding client-side tools in the final article in our series, we take the example toolchain we built up in the previous article and add to it so that we can deploy our sample app.
... previous overview: understanding client-side tools in this module client-side tooling overview command line crash course package management basics introducing a complete toolchain deploying our app ...

Introducing a complete toolchain - Learn web development
previous overview: understanding client-side tools next in the final couple of articles in the series we will solidify your tooling knowledge by walking you through the process of building up a sample case study toolchain.
... previous overview: understanding client-side tools next in this module client-side tooling overview command line crash course package management basics introducing a complete toolchain deploying our app ...

Package management basics - Learn web development
previous overview: understanding client-side tools next in this article we'll look at package managers in some detail to understand how we can use them in our own projects — to install project tool dependencies, keep them up-to-date, and more.
... previous overview: understanding client-side tools next ...

Understanding client-side web development tools - Learn web development
get started now, with our "client-side tooling overview" prerequisites you should really learn the basics of the core html, css, and javascript languages first before attempting to use the tools detailed here.
...client-side tooling overview in this article we provide an overview of modern web tooling, what kinds of tools are available and where you’ll meet them in the lifecycle of web app development, and how to find help with individual tools.

Add-ons
you’ll find: overview of the firefox extension features tools and processes for developing and testing how to publish your extension on addons.mozilla.org or distribute it yourself how to manage your published extension an enterprise guide for developing and using extensions how to develop themes for firefox firefox developer communities extensions for firefox for android in 2020, mozilla will release a new f...
... for an overview for the process of publishing your add-on see signing and distributing your add-on.

Adding a new CSS property
see the gecko overview for more information about the style system.
... (again, see the gecko overview for more information.) it should generally be grouped with related properties.

Developer guide
working with mozilla source code a code overview, how to get the code, and the coding style guide.
... development process overview an overview of the entire mozilla development process.

AddonManager
to import the addonmanager object in the add-on sdk, use: const { addonmanager } = require("resource://gre/modules/addonmanager.jsm"); to import it in a normal bootstrapped extension or similar, use: cu.import("resource://gre/modules/addonmanager.jsm"); method overview promise?
...callback) void addaddonlistener(in addonlistener listener) void removeaddonlistener(in addonlistener listener) void addtypelistener(in typelistener listener) void removetypelistener(in typelistener listener) nsiuri geturiforresourceinfile(in nsifile afile, in string apath) properties overview attribute type description addontypes dictionary a dictionary that maps type id to addontype.

Log.jsm
class overview appender(); length: 1 keys of prototype: append(); doappend(); level: 0 basicformatter(); length: 1 keys of prototype: format(); boundedfileappender(); length: 2 keys of prototype: doappend...
...oragestreamappender(); length: 1 keys of prototype: doappend(); getinputstream(); newoutputstream(); outputstream reset(); structuredformatter(); length: 0 keys of prototype: format(); method overview enumerateinterfaces(); length: 0 enumerateproperties(); length: 2 member fields variable type description level object contains the following fields: field name value all 0 config 30 debug 20 desc ...

OS.File for the main thread
pen); var txttoappend = 'append some text \n'; var txtencoded = new textencoder().encode(txttoappend); valopen.write(txtencoded).then(valwrite => { console.log('valwrite:', valwrite); valopen.close().then(valclose => { console.log('valclose:', valclose); console.log('successfully appended'); }); }); }); global object os.file method overview promise<file> open(in string path, [optional] in object mode, [optional] in object options); promise<object> openunique(in string path, [optional] in object options); promise<void> copy(in string sourcepath, in string destpath, [optional] in object options); promise<bool> exists(in string path); promise<string> getcurrentdirectory(); promise<...
... methods overview promise<void> close() promise<void> flush() promise<number> getposition() promise<number> read([optional] in number bytes) promise<void> setdates(in date|number accessdate, in date|number modificationdate); promise<void> setposition(in number bytes) promise<file.info> stat() promise<number> write(in arraybufferview source, [...

Localization technical reviews
overview you've completed most, if not all, of your localization work.
...here is a detailed overview of what a technical review is and who it's meant for: a technical review: is performed as a qa measure on a revision pushed to a new locale's l10n aurora repo in mercurial.

Threads
for an overview of the nspr threading model and sample code that illustrates its use, see introduction to nspr.
... controlling thread priorities for an overview of the way nspr controls thread priorities, see setting thread priorities.

SpiderMonkey: The Mozilla JavaScript runtime
jsapi user guide this guide provides an overview of spidermonkey and describes how you can embed engine calls in your applications to make them javascript-aware.
... spidermonkey internals a design overview and a file-by-file walkthrough of the implementation.

Using the Places history service
please see history service design for information on the design of the history service, and the places database for a higher-level design overview of places.
... history services interface overview the mozilla history service has undergone many revisions.

Building the WebLock UI
client code overview before we get started on the actual user interface, we should establish how the client code is to access the weblock component and use its interfaces to control the web locking of the browser.
... notice also that when it's clicked, the button executes a javascript function called addthissite(), which we've already defined in the weblock.js file in client code overview above.

Creating the Component Code
overview of the weblock module source as we mentioned in the previous section, components have layers.
... coding for the registration process when xpcom discovers your component for the first time (via xpinstall or regxpcom, both of which are discussed in component installation overview), the first thing it tries to do is load your library and find the symbol nsgetmodule.

Packaging WebLock
the first section, component installation overview, describes the general installation process in mozilla.
... component installation overview xpinstall is a set of javascript apis for creating installation scripts.

mozIStorageConnection
1.0 68 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) for a general overview on how to use this interface, see storage.
... method overview void asyncclose([optional] in mozistoragecompletioncallback acallback); void begintransaction(); void begintransactionas(in print32 transactiontype); mozistoragestatement clone([optional] in boolean areadonly); void close(); void committransaction(); void createaggregatefunction(in autf8string afunctionname, in long anumarguments, in mozistorageaggregatefunction afunction); mozistorageasyncstatement createasyncstatement(in autf8string asqlstatement); void createfunction(in autf8string afunctionname, in long anumarguments, in mozistoragefunction afunction); mozistoragestatement createstatement(in autf8string asqlstatement); void createtable(in string atablename, in string atabl...

mozIStorageValueArray
for an introduction on how to use this interface, see the storage overview document.
... last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview long gettypeofindex(in unsigned long aindex); long getint32(in unsigned long aindex); long long getint64(in unsigned long aindex); double getdouble(in unsigned long aindex); autf8string getutf8string(in unsigned long aindex); astring getstring(in unsigned long aindex); void getblob(in unsigned long aindex, out unsigned long adatasize, [array,size_is(adatasize)] out octet adata); boolean getisnull(in unsigned long aindex); attributes attribute type description numentries unsign...

nsIObserverService
implemented by @mozilla.org/observer-service;1 as a service: var observerservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/observer-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiobserverservice); method overview void addobserver( in nsiobserver anobserver, in string atopic, in boolean ownsweak); nsisimpleenumerator enumerateobservers( in string atopic ); void notifyobservers( in nsisupports asubject, in string atopic, in wstring somedata ); void removeobserver( in nsiobserver anobserver, in string atopic ); methods addobserver() registers a given listener for...
... components.classes["@mozilla.org/observer-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiobserverservice) .notifyobservers(null, "mytopicid", "someadditionalinformationpassedas'data'parameter"); see also nsobserverservice observer notifications provides an overview of observers and a list of built-in notifications fired by mozilla.

nsITraceableChannel
see modify url before loading page in firefox for an overview of how to modify a request before it is made.
... method overview nsistreamlistener setnewlistener(in nsistreamlistener alistener); methods setnewlistener() replaces the channel's current listener with a new one, returning the listener previously assigned to the channel.

Performance
see the sqlite optimizer overview on the sqlite web site for information on how sqlite uses indices and executes statements.
...a command that will give you a higher level overview is "explain query plan".

Address Book examples
address book interfaces provides an overview of the related interfaces.
... see an overview of thunderbird components for a general description of the thunderbird user interface and related programmatic interfaces.

Demo Addon
overview this demo add-on has been created by jonathan protzenko for his presentation at mozcamp 2011.
...afterwards, just click that button to show the demo overview.

Thunderbird extensions
learn more about gloda: an overview of gloda how to create your first message query and read the gloda examples gloda internals: gloda debugging, gloda indexing more thunderbird-specific links some links may be out of date, but they still provide valuable information on the codebase.
... an overview of thunderbird components developer reference docs: folder classes db views (message list) message summary database mailnews protocols mailnews filters error reporting tools steel library (obsolete as of thunderbird 52, use https://github.com/protz/thunderbird-stdlib) developing new account types useful newsgroup discussions (anything that's very old should be regarded suspiciously, because there has been significant api rewrite over the past years making most techniques considerably easier) thunderbird api docs (mostly a collection of out-of-date pages, relevance is rather dubious) general links finding the code for a feature mozillazine articles o...

ArrayType
method overview methods inherited from ctype ctype array([n]) string tosource() string tostring() arraytype cdata syntax cdata sized_arraytype(); cdata unsized_arraytype(length); sized_arraytype and unsized_arraytype are arraytype ctype.
... arraytype cdata method_overview cdata addressofelement(idx) methods inherited from cdata cdata address() string tosource() string tostring() arraytype cdata methods addressofelement() returns a new cdata object of the appropriate pointer type, whose value points to the specified array element on which the method was called.

PointerType
method overview methods inherited from ctype ctype array([n]) string tosource() string tostring() pointertype cdata syntax cdata pointertype(); pointertype is pointertype ctype.
... pointertype cdata method_overview bool isnull() methods inherited from cdata cdata address() string tosource() string tostring() pointertype cdata methods isnull() determines whether or not the pointer's value is null.

StructType
method overview define(fields) methods inherited from ctype ctype array([n]) string tosource() string tostring() methods define() defines a previously declared opaque type's fields.
... structtype cdata method_overview cdata addressoffield(name) methods inherited from cdata cdata address() string tosource() string tostring() structtype cdata methods addressoffield() returns a new cdata object of the appropriate pointer type, whose value points to the specified field of the structure on which the method was called.

Plug-in Basics - Plugins
this section gives you an overview of the way that plug-ins operate in the browser.
... if (plugin) { // yes, so show the data in-line document.writeln("here\'s a movie: <object data='mymovie.swf' height='100' width='100'></object>"); } else { // no, so provide a link to the data document.writeln("<a href='mymovie.swf'>click here</a> to see a movie."); } } else { // no, so tell them so document.writeln("sorry, can't show you this movie."); } overview of plug-in structure this section is an overview of basic information you will need as you develop plug-ins.

Intensive JavaScript - Firefox Developer Tools
leaving the radio button set to "use blocking call in main thread", make a recording: press the "start animations" button start recording a performance profile press "do pointless computations!" two or three times stop recording the profile exactly what you see will vary from one machine to another, but it will be something like this: the top half of this is the waterfall overview.
...compared with the original, each button-press is visible in the overview as two very short orange markers: the dopointlesscomputationsinworker() function that handles the click event and starts the worker's processing the handleworkercompletion() function that runs when the worker calls "done".

Using the Beacon API - Web APIs
see beacon api for an overview.
..."success" : "fail"); } else { postmessage("worker: self.navigator.sendbeacon is unsupported"); } } see also beacon api (overview) beacon standard beacon caniuse data ...

Recommended Drag Types - Web APIs
the following sample offers an overview of this advanced case: // currentevent is an existing drag operation event currentevent.datatransfer.setdata("text/x-moz-url", url); currentevent.datatransfer.setdata("application/x-moz-file-promise-url", url); currentevent.datatransfer.setdata("application/x-moz-file-promise-dest-filename", leafname); currentevent.datatransfer.mozsetdataat('application/x-moz-file-promise', ne...
... console.log("target folder is = " + dir.path); var file = cc['@mozilla.org/file/local;1'].createinstance(components.interfaces.nsilocalfile); file.initwithpath(dir.path); file.appendrelativepath(name); console.log("output final path is =" + file.path); // now you can write or copy the file yourself… } } } see also html drag and drop api (overview) drag operations dragging and dropping multiple items html5 living standard: drag and drop ...

Basic concepts - Web APIs
you'll find the following useful: for an overview of the design and structure of indexeddb, see big concepts.
... overview of indexeddb indexeddb lets you store and retrieve objects that are indexed with a "key." all changes that you make to the database happen within transactions.

Using Touch Events - Web APIs
see the touch events overview for a more detailed example.
... examples and demos the following documents describe how to use touch events and include example code: touch events overview implement custom gestures introduction to touch events in javascript add touch screen support to your website (the easy way) touch event demonstrations: paint program (by rick byers) touch/pointer tests and demos (by patrick h.

WebXR Device API - Web APIs
foundations and basics fundamentals of webxr before diving into the details of how to create content using webxr, it may be helpful to read this overview of the technology, which includes introductions to terminology that may be unfamiliar to you, or which may be used in a new way.
... webxr application life cycle an overview of the overall life cycle of a webxr application, from startup to shutdown.

Web Authentication API - Web APIs
this is a simplification of the data required for the registration process that is only intended to provide an overview.
...again, the description of authentication below is a broad overview rather than getting into all the options and features of the web authentication api.

Cognitive accessibility - Accessibility
overview cognitive and intellectual disabilities cover a large spectrum, and may be momentary, temporary, or permanent conditions.
... see also accessibility guidelines what is accessibility accessibility for seizure disorders understanding wcag guidelines accessibility overview web content accessibility guidelines, including cognitive accessibility guidelines.

Keyboard-navigable JavaScript widgets - Accessibility
overview web applications often use javascript to mimic desktop widgets such as menus, tree views, rich text fields, and tab panels.
...(for more information about aria, see this overview of accessible web applications and widgets.) the aria-activedescendant property identifies the id of the descendent element that currently has the virtual focus.

Setting up adaptive streaming media sources - Developer guides
general information adaptive streaming in the field hls overview and references http live streaming what is hls (http-live-streaming)?
... http live streaming overview mpeg-dash overview and references dynamic adaptive streaming over http dataset mpeg-dash and streaming reference and resources (msdn) dash adaptive streaming for html 5 video dynamic adaptive streaming over http: from content creation to consumption mpeg-dash tools dashencoder mp4box dash.js wiki dash.js google group akamai dash diagnostic player adaptive streaming examples itec – dynamic adaptive streaming over http mpeg dash media source demo ...

Event developer guide - Developer guides
the overview page provides an introduction to the design pattern and a summary of the types of incidents which are defined and reacted to by modern web browsers.
...this article provides details about the coordinate systems at play and how you use them.overview of events and handlersevents and event handling provide a core technique in javascript for reacting to incidents occurring when a browser accesses a web page, including events from preparing a web page for display, from interacting with the content of the web page, relating to the device on which the browser is running, and from many other causes such as media stream playback or animation timing...

Index - Developer guides
24 overview of events and handlers beginner, dom, example, javascript, needsbeginnerupdate, needsupdate, events this overview of events and event handling explains the code design pattern used to react to incidents occurring when a browser accesses a web page, and it summarizes the types of such incidents modern web browsers can handle.
... 32 mobile web development intermediate, needsexample this page provides an overview of some of the main techniques needed to design web sites that work well on mobile devices.

<summary>: The Disclosure Summary element - HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
basic example a simple example showing the use of <summary> in a <details> element: <details open> <summary>overview</summary> <ol> <li>cash on hand: $500.00</li> <li>current invoice: $75.30</li> <li>due date: 5/6/19</li> </ol> </details> summaries as headings you can use heading elements in <summary>, like this: <details open> <summary><h4>overview</h4></summary> <ol> <li>cash on hand: $500.00</li> <li>current invoice: $75.30</li> <li>due date: 5/6/19</li> </ol> </detai...
... html in summaries this example adds some semantics to the <summary> element to indicate the label as important: <details open> <summary><strong>overview</strong></summary> <ol> <li>cash on hand: $500.00</li> <li>current invoice: $75.30</li> <li>due date: 5/6/19</li> </ol> </details> specifications specification status comment html living standardthe definition of '<summary>' in that specification.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) - HTTP
functional overview the cross-origin resource sharing standard works by adding new http headers that let servers describe which origins are permitted to read that information from a web browser.
...the previous section gives an overview of these in action.

A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial) - JavaScript
it's useful to start with an overview of the language's history.
... overview javascript is a multi-paradigm, dynamic language with types and operators, standard built-in objects, and methods.

Introduction - JavaScript
javascript guide (this guide) provides an overview about the javascript language and its objects.
...to get a better idea about the different technologies that are used when programming with javascript, consult the article javascript technologies overview.

JavaScript
a re-introduction to javascript an overview for those who think they know about javascript.
... javascript data structures overview of available data structures in javascript.

Media type and format guide: image, audio, and video content - Web media technologies
this guide provides an overview of the media file types, codecs, and algorithms that may comprise media used on the web.
...includes overviews of each of the file types supported by the major web browsers, along with browser support information and supported features.

Progressive web app structure - Progressive web apps (PWAs)
previous overview: progressive web apps next now that we know the theory behind pwas, let's look at the recommended structure of an actual app.
... previous overview: progressive web apps next ...

How to make PWAs installable - Progressive web apps (PWAs)
previous overview: progressive next in the last article, we read about how the example application, js13kpwa, works offline thanks to its service worker, but we can go even further and allow users to install the web app on mobile and desktop browers that support doing so.
... previous overview: progressive next ...

Introduction to progressive web apps - Progressive web apps (PWAs)
overview: progressive web apps next this article provides an introduction to progressive web apps (pwas), discussing what they are and the advantages they offer over regular web apps.
... overview: progressive web apps next ...

Progressive loading - Progressive web apps (PWAs)
previous overview: progressive web apps in previous articles we covered apis that help us make our js13kpwa example a progressive web app: service workers, web manifests, notifications and push.
... previous overview: progressive web apps ...

Making PWAs work offline with Service workers - Progressive web apps (PWAs)
previous overview: progressive web apps next now that we’ve seen what the structure of js13kpwa looks like and have seen the basic shell up and running, let's look at how the offline capabilities using service worker are implemented.
... previous overview: progressive web apps next ...

SVG 1.1 Support in Firefox - SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
see svg animation with smil for a brief overview.
... element implementation status a quick overview of the svg 1.1 elements and the current status of the native support.

Index - XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
14 an overview needshelp, needsmarkupwork, transforming_xml_with_xslt, xml, xslt the extensible stylesheet language/transform is a very powerful language, and a complete discussion of it is well beyond the scope of this article, but a brief discussion of some basic concepts will be helpful in understanding the description of netscape's capabilities that follows.
... 19 xslt elements reference element, overview, reference, xslt there are two types of elements discussed here: top-level elements and instructions.

Navigator.mozNotification - Archive of obsolete content
method overview notification createnotification(in domstring title, in domstring description, in domstring iconurl optional); methods createnotification() creates and returns a notification object that can be used to display the specified message with an optional url.

port - Archive of obsolete content
for an overview of content scripts, see the main article.

self - Archive of obsolete content
self provides: access to the options object access to the port object access to a mostly deprecated messaging api for an overview of content scripts, see the main article.

Guides - Archive of obsolete content
content scripts guide an overview of content scripts, including: what they are, what they can do, how to load them, how to communicate with them.

ui - Archive of obsolete content
this page just provides a quick overview.

Rosetta - Archive of obsolete content
for a fast overview on the code proposed here you can git clone https://github.com/madmurphy/rosetta.js, or, at your choice, directly download this .zip file.

JavaScript Daemons Management - Archive of obsolete content
for a fast overview on the code proposed here you can git clone https://github.com/madmurphy/daemon.js.git.

View Source for XUL Applications - Archive of obsolete content
method overview gviewsourceutils exposes several methods, but the only one you should be using directly is the viewsource method.

Chapter 3: Introduction to XUL—How to build a more intuitive UI - Archive of obsolete content
introduction an overview of xul xul is an xml-based language, and was developed to be the gui markup language for the mozilla browser.

Appendix D: Loading Scripts - Archive of obsolete content
below is an overview of the more common means of loading scripts, along with some of their primary advantages, disadvantages, quirks, and use cases.

Setting up an extension development environment - Archive of obsolete content
overview you'll create a new user profile to run your development specific firefox session.

List of Mozilla-Based Applications - Archive of obsolete content
other places to find mozilla applications include: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/xulrunner_hall_of_fame http://www.mozdev.org http://xulapps.net/ http://dmoz.org/computers/data_formats/markup_languages/xml/applications/xul/applications/ http://blog.mozbox.org/post/2007/06/14/xul-activity-in-france http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/overview.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spidermonkey_(javascript_engine) http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/users.html http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rhino/browse_thread/thread/4eb9162c9c3054b0/1d4115b40373ca3b?lnk=raot http://www.ohloh.net/tags/xulrunner ...

No Proxy For configuration - Archive of obsolete content
overview as browsers rapidly grew in popularity in the mid-90's, many network administrators added proxy servers.

Notes on HTML Reflow - Archive of obsolete content
overview reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine's formatting objects are computed.

Drag and Drop JavaScript Wrapper - Archive of obsolete content
text/unicode text data text/html html data text/x-moz-url a url application/x-moz-file a local file see here for an overview of more data flavours.

Documentation for BiDi Mozilla - Archive of obsolete content
overview of bidi processing bidi text is reordered according to the unicode bidi algorithm (uba).

Repackaging Firefox - Archive of obsolete content
the following diagram represents an overview of the process and the pieces involved: you will need the following to get started: a macintosh computer (even for repackaging windows or linux only); it may be either powerpc or intel based.

JavaScript Client API - Archive of obsolete content
overview this page describes how to use the internal client-side sync javascript api.

JavaScript crypto - Archive of obsolete content
overview of the new cert issuing process user fills out enrollment form user action initiates script script calls key generation method (generatecrmfrequest) signing and encryption keys are generated encryption private key is wrapped with public key of key recovery authority (kra) (passed in in the form of a certificate as part of the script, and checked against a pre-installed certificate copy in ...

Java in Firefox Extensions - Archive of obsolete content
see also liveconnect overview https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/#liveconnect https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/liveconnect/ http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?th...66932&start=15 ...

Nanojit - Archive of obsolete content
overview nanojit is a small, cross-platform c++ library that emits machine code.

Plug-n-Hack Get Involved - Archive of obsolete content
related links plug-n-hack overview ...

Plug-n-Hack Phase1 - Archive of obsolete content
related links plug-n-hack overview ...

Plug-n-Hack Phase2 - Archive of obsolete content
related links plug-n-hack overview ...

Plug-n-Hack - Archive of obsolete content
overview plug-n-hack (pnh) is a proposed standard from the mozilla security team for defining how security tools can interact with browsers in a more useful and usable way.

Prism - Archive of obsolete content
architectural overview prism is a xulrunner application.

Proxy UI - Archive of obsolete content
camino configured in os (networking preferences) (recently added - some support for reading os and account settings.)ui elements preferences panel overview the ui is based on selecting a proxy mode, then filling out any additional needed information in "related" ui.

Space Manager High Level Design - Archive of obsolete content
overview the space manager and associated classes and structures are used by block and line layout to manage rectangular regions that are occupied and available, for correct handling of floated elements and the elements that flow around them.

Table Cellmap - Archive of obsolete content
introduction the table layout use the cellmap for two purposes: quick lookup of table structural data store of the border collapse data the cellmap code is contained in nscellmap.cpp and nscellmap.h this document does currently describe only the quick lookup part of the game, border collapse is still far away cellmap data - overview the entries in the cellmap contain information about the table cell frame corresponding to a given row and column number (celldata.h).

Table Layout Regression Tests - Archive of obsolete content
subject overview changes in layout, parser and content code can have unintended side effects, also known as regressions.

URIs and URLs - Archive of obsolete content
overview handling network and locally retrievable resources is a central part of necko.

Uriloader - Archive of obsolete content
overview of a uri load up though dispatch to a content handler helper application tech talk mime type determination in mozilla overview of how downloads work ...

Using cross commit - Archive of obsolete content
using the script quick overview there are a couple of common ways to use cross-commit: land something simultaneously on the trunk and mozilla_1_8_branch # modify the files (probably by applying the patch) patch -p0 < ~/caret.patch # commit on trunk and branch at once # make sure to use -m "commit message" when doing so tools/cross-commit -m "fix some sort of security bug" layout/base/nscaret.h land something on two o...

Venkman Introduction - Archive of obsolete content
this article provides an overview and some practical examples of using the javascript debugger in web applications and web page scripting.

Venkman - Archive of obsolete content
documentation venkman introduction an overview and some practical examples of using the javascript debugger in web development.

Video presentations - Archive of obsolete content
architecture these presentations provide an architectural overview of the codebase.

XBL - Archive of obsolete content
an overview of differences between mozilla xbl and xbl2 is in a newsgroup posting by jonas sicking (april, 2007).

Install Wizards (aka: Stub Installers) - Archive of obsolete content
complete details about this library is available at libxpnet: architecture and api overview.

File Object - Archive of obsolete content
overview the file object has methods for analyzing the file system and preparing it (as when new directories, program shortcuts, version comparisons, or deletions are required) for newly installed software packages.

InstallVersion Object - Archive of obsolete content
overview this object and its methods are used both when triggering a download, to see whether a particular version needs to be installed, and when installing the software.

Install Object - Archive of obsolete content
overview the install object is used primarily in installation scripts.

WinProfile Object - Archive of obsolete content
overview this object does not have a public constructor.

WinReg Object - Archive of obsolete content
overview this object does not have a public constructor.

Learn XPI Installer Scripting by Example - Archive of obsolete content
overview of the install script xpi install scripts are written in javascript using xpinstall engine syntax defined in the xpinstall api reference.

onchange - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home overview an onchange attribute is an event listener to the object for the event change.

Index - Archive of obsolete content
979 xul events mozilla, non-standard, overview, reference, xul, xul_events, events the following tables and sections describe the event handler that are valid for most xul elements.

Menus - Archive of obsolete content
menu tag overview the following shows a simple menu example, containing a menubar with a single menu labeled 'file'.

PopupEvents - Archive of obsolete content
an overview of these is listed below: contextmenu this event is fired when a request is made to open a context menu, whether by the keyboard or mouse.

Popup Guide - Archive of obsolete content
a brief overview of each type is listed here; more details for each type can be found by following the corresponding links.

Providing Command-Line Options - Archive of obsolete content
see also: xulrunner:commandline overview the code below is an example of writing a javascript xpcom component to handle command line parameters.

textbox (Toolkit autocomplete) - Archive of obsolete content
overview an onchange attribute is an event listener to the object for the event change.

Textbox (XPFE autocomplete) - Archive of obsolete content
overview an onchange attribute is an event listener to the object for the event change.

Introduction to RDF - Archive of obsolete content
a very brief overview of rdf will be provided here.

Using the Editor from XUL - Archive of obsolete content
overview the editor in xul lives on top of a xul <iframe> element; it observes document loading in this <iframe>, and, when document loading is complete, it instantiates an editor on the loaded document.

XULBrowserWindow - Archive of obsolete content
method overview boolean hidechromeforlocation(in string alocation); attributes attribute type description incontentwhitelist string[] an array of url strings for which chrome is automatically hidden.

XUL Template Primer - Bindings - Archive of obsolete content
overview this document expands on the xul template primer by introducing the <bindings> element in the extended xul template syntax.

colorpicker - Archive of obsolete content
overview an onchange attribute is an event listener to the object for the event change.

editor - Archive of obsolete content
ipt> <editor id="myeditor" editortype="html" src="about:blank" flex="1" type="content-primary"/> once editable, the document can have special formatting and other html pieces added to it using the document.execcommand method: var editor = document.getelementbyid("myeditor"); // toggle bold for the current selection editor.contentdocument.execcommand("bold", false, null); see the midas overview for more command strings.

preference - Archive of obsolete content
overview an onchange attribute is an event listener to the object for the event change.

preferences - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home [ examples | attributes | properties | methods | related ] overview <preferences> is a container for <preference> elements.

promptBox - Archive of obsolete content
method overview nsidomelement appendprompt(args, onclosecallback); void removeprompt(nsidomelement aprompt); nodelist listprompts(nsidomelement aprompt); methods appendprompt() creates a new prompt, adding it to the tab.

XULRunner - Archive of obsolete content
overview development plan what xulrunner provides xulrunner faq nightly builds: unstable-trunk documentation getting started with xulrunner short tutorial on building desktop applications with xulrunner.

nsIContentPolicy - Archive of obsolete content
method overview short shouldload(in unsigned long acontenttype, in nsiuri acontentlocation, in nsiuri arequestorigin, in nsisupports acontext, in acstring amimetypeguess, in nsisupports aextra, in nsiprincipal arequestprincipal); short shouldprocess(in unsigned long acontenttype, in nsiuri acontentlocation, in nsiuri arequestorigin, in nsisupports acontext, in acstring amimetype, in nsisupport...

Browser-side plug-in API - Archive of obsolete content
for an overview of how these two sides of the plug-in api interact, see the how plug-ins work and overview of plug-in structure sections in the introduction.

NPAPI plug-in side API - Archive of obsolete content
for an overview of how these two sides of the plug-in api interact, see the how plug-ins work and overview of plug-in structure sections in the introduction.

The First Install Problem - Archive of obsolete content
this is an old working document; see en/gecko_plugin_api_reference/plug-in_development_overview for current information.

XEmbed Extension for Mozilla Plugins - Archive of obsolete content
overview recent versions of mozilla include an extension for writing plugins that use xembed instead of using the old xt-based mainloop that most plugins have been using since the netscape 3.x days.

Security - Archive of obsolete content
for an overview of ssl, see "introduction to ssl." for an overview of encryption and decryption, see "encryption and decryption." information on digital signatures is available from "digital signatures." introduction to sslthis document introduces the secure sockets layer (ssl) protocol.

Table Reflow Internals - Archive of obsolete content
overview review of reflow table frames table reflow intro to paginated reflow table paginated reflow review of reflow reflow process starts when an html document starts loading (the frame tree contains only viewport, scroll(s), canvas, html, body).

Using Web Standards in your Web Pages - Archive of obsolete content
the problem lies with designers and developers chained to the browser-quirk-oriented markup of the 1990s-often because they don't realize it is possible to support current standards while accommodating old browsers." -web standards project this article provides an overview of the process for upgrading the content of your web pages to conform to the world wide web consortium (w3c) web standards.

Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support - Archive of obsolete content
this article is intended to provide an overview of browser detection strategies and best practices.

Processing XML with E4X - Archive of obsolete content
this chapter provides a practical overview of the language; it is not a complete reference.

Legacy generator function expression - Archive of obsolete content
description an overview of the usage is available on the iterators and generators page.

Legacy generator function - Archive of obsolete content
description an overview of the usage is available on the iterators and generators page.

Debug.setNonUserCodeExceptions - Archive of obsolete content
for more information on debugging, see the active script debugging overview.

LiveConnect - Archive of obsolete content
liveconnect overview an overview for liveconnect.

Building Mozilla XForms - Archive of obsolete content
the following table gives you an overview of which version you want to build: firefox version gecko/toolkit version source code notes status firefox 2.0 gecko 1.8.1 cvs, branch mozilla_1_8_branch not developed any more last release: 0.8.5ff2 firefox 3.0 gecko 1.9.0 cvs, branch head not developed any more last release: 0.8.5ff3 firefox 3.5 gecko 1.9.1 xforms/schema-validation code does not build with firefox 3.5 any more not ...

XForms Custom Controls - Archive of obsolete content
overview the mozilla xforms controls are largely implemented using xbl and the bindings are applied to the individual xforms control tags via css.

Implementation Status - Archive of obsolete content
specification chapter index here we give an overview of xforms 1.1 specification chapters and the current status of the mozilla support.

Mozilla XForms Specials - Archive of obsolete content
introduction this article gives an overview of where the mozilla xforms extension deviates from the official xforms 1.0 specification .

Choosing Standards Compliance Over Proprietary Practices - Archive of obsolete content
overview there are a number of standards, procedures, and processes that an organization can use.

RDF in Mozilla FAQ - Archive of obsolete content
the rdf back-end architecture document describes in more detail how mozilla's rdf implementation works, and gives a quick overview of the interfaces that are involved.

Web Standards - Archive of obsolete content
using web standards in your web pages this article provides an overview of the process for upgrading the content of your web pages to conform to the w3c web standards.

Index - Game development
35 tiles and tilemaps overview 2d, canvas, games, javascript, static, webgl, tilemap, tiles tilemaps are a very popular technique in 2d game development, consisting of building the game world or level map out of small, regular-shaped images called tiles.

Building up a basic demo with A-Frame - Game development
high level overview the current version of a-frame is 0.3.2, which means it's highly experimental, but it already works and you can test it right away in the browser.

Implementing game control mechanisms - Game development
setting up the environment let's start with a quick overview of the game's folder structure, javascript files and in-game states, so we know what's happening where.

Tools for game development - Game development
a lot of this is going to be covered by will in tools, but here we should provide a kind of practical toolchain tutorial for debugging games, with links to will's stuff: basic tools overview shader editor performance tools (still in production, estimated early 2014) ...

ATAG - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
learn more general knowledge atag as part of the web accessibility initiative on wikipedia technical reference authoring tool accessibility guidelines (atag) overview the atag 2.0 recommendation ...

Site map - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
site maps also help users with site navigation by providing an overview of a site's content in a single glance.

TCP slow start - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
see also populating the page: how browsers work http overview ...

Mobile accessibility - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility next with web access on mobile devices being so popular and renowned platforms such as ios and android having full-fledged accessibility tools, it is important to consider the accessibility of your web content on these platforms.

WAI-ARIA basics - Learn web development
previous overview: accessibility next following on from the previous article, sometimes making complex ui controls that involve unsemantic html and dynamic javascript-updated content can be difficult.

Accessibility - Learn web development
overview when someone describes a site as "accessible," they mean that any user can use all its features and content, regardless of how the user accesses the web — even and especially users with physical or mental impairments.

Multiple-column layout - Learn web development
previous overview: css layout next the multiple-column layout specification gives you a method of laying content out in columns, as you might see in a newspaper.

Styling lists - Learn web development
previous overview: styling text next lists behave like any other text for the most part, but there are some css properties specific to lists that you need to know about, and some best practices to consider.

Sending form data - Learn web development
previous overview: forms once the form data has been validated on the client-side, it is okay to submit the form.

How the Web works - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web how the web works provides a simplified view of what happens when you view a webpage in a web browser on your computer or phone.

JavaScript basics - Learn web development
previous overview: getting started with the web next javascript is a programming language that adds interactivity to your website.

The web and web standards - Learn web development
overview of modern web technologies there are a number of technologies to learn if you want to be a front-end web developer.

Document and website structure - Learn web development
previous overview: introduction to html next in addition to defining individual parts of your page (such as "a paragraph" or "an image"), html also boasts a number of block level elements used to define areas of your website (such as "the header", "the navigation menu", "the main content column").

Getting started with HTML - Learn web development
overview: introduction to html next in this article we cover the absolute basics of html.

Adding vector graphics to the Web - Learn web development
previous overview: multimedia and embedding next vector graphics are very useful in many circumstances — they have small file sizes and are highly scalable, so they don't pixelate when zoomed in or blown up to a large size.

Responsive images - Learn web development
previous overview: multimedia and embedding next in this article, we'll learn about the concept of responsive images — images that work well on devices with widely differing screen sizes, resolutions, and other such features — and look at what tools html provides to help implement them.

Video and audio content - Learn web development
previous overview: multimedia and embedding next now that we are comfortable with adding simple images to a webpage, the next step is to start adding video and audio players to your html documents!

General asynchronous programming concepts - Learn web development
overview: asynchronous next in this article, we'll run through a number of important concepts relating to asynchronous programming, and how this looks in web browsers and javascript.

Graceful asynchronous programming with Promises - Learn web development
previous overview: asynchronous next promises are a comparatively new feature of the javascript language that allow you to defer further actions until after a previous action has completed, or respond to its failure.

Introduction to events - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next events are actions or occurrences that happen in the system you are programming, which the system tells you about so you can respond to them in some way if desired.

Functions — reusable blocks of code - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next another essential concept in coding is functions, which allow you to store a piece of code that does a single task inside a defined block, and then call that code whenever you need it using a single short command — rather than having to type out the same code multiple times.

Looping code - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next programming languages are very useful for rapidly completing repetitive tasks, from multiple basic calculations to just about any other situation where you've got a lot of similar items of work to complete.

Function return values - Learn web development
previous overview: building blocks next there's one last essential concept about functions for us to discuss — return values.

Making decisions in your code — conditionals - Learn web development
overview: building blocks next in any programming language, the code needs to make decisions and carry out actions accordingly depending on different inputs.

Client-side storage - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side web apis modern web browsers support a number of ways for web sites to store data on the user's computer — with the user's permission — then retrieve it when necessary.

Drawing graphics - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side web apis next the browser contains some very powerful graphics programming tools, from the scalable vector graphics (svg) language, to apis for drawing on html <canvas> elements, (see the canvas api and webgl).

Fetching data from the server - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side web apis next another very common task in modern websites and applications is retrieving individual data items from the server to update sections of a webpage without having to load an entire new page.

Manipulating documents - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side web apis next when writing web pages and apps, one of the most common things you'll want to do is manipulate the document structure in some way.

Video and Audio APIs - Learn web development
previous overview: client-side web apis next html5 comes with elements for embedding rich media in documents — <video> and <audio> — which in turn come with their own apis for controlling playback, seeking, etc.

Arrays - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next in the final article of this module, we'll look at arrays — a neat way of storing a list of data items under a single variable name.

What went wrong? Troubleshooting JavaScript - Learn web development
previous overview: first steps next when you built up the "guess the number" game in the previous article, you may have found that it didn't work.

Inheritance in JavaScript - Learn web development
previous overview: objects next with most of the gory details of oojs now explained, this article shows how to create "child" object classes (constructors) that inherit features from their "parent" classes.

Working with JSON - Learn web development
previous overview: objects next javascript object notation (json) is a standard text-based format for representing structured data based on javascript object syntax.

Object building practice - Learn web development
previous overview: objects next in previous articles we looked at all the essential javascript object theory and syntax details, giving you a solid base to start from.

Web performance - Learn web development
it would also be helpful to go a bit deeper into these topics, with modules such as: introduction to html css first steps javascript first steps once you've worked through this module, you'll probably be excited to go deeper into web performance — you can find a lot of further teachings in our main mdn web performance section, including overviews of performance apis, testing and analysis tools, and performance bottleneck gotchas.

Understanding client-side JavaScript frameworks - Learn web development
introduction to client-side frameworks we begin our look at frameworks with a general overview of the area, looking at a brief history of javascript and frameworks, why frameworks exist and what they give us, how to start thinking about choosing a framework to learn, and what alternatives there are to client-side frameworks.

Cross browser testing - Learn web development
guides introduction to cross browser testing this article starts the module off by providing an overview of the topic of cross browser testing, answering questions such as "what is cross browser testing?", "what are the most common types of problems you'll encounter?", and "what are the main approaches for testing, identifying, and fixing problems?" strategies for carrying out testing next, we drill down into carrying out testing, looking at identifying a target audience (e.g.

Git and GitHub - Learn web development
overview vcses are essential for software development: it is rare that you will work on a project completely on your own, and as soon as you start working with other people you start to run the risk of conflicting with each other's work — this is when both of you try to update the same piece of code at the same time.

Tools and testing - Learn web development
in addition, you should start with the first module in this topic, which gives a useful overview of the general area.

Multiprocess on Windows
overview a high-level overview of the ideas behind the a11y+e10s design is available on the wiki.

Accessibility and Mozilla
the uaag is not the basis for any government accessibility regulations at this time.multiprocess on windowsa high-level overview of the ideas behind the a11y+e10s design is available on the wiki.software accessibility: where are we today?the accessibility of computer software has seen drastic improvements over the past two decades.

A bird's-eye view of the Mozilla framework
tiner last updated date: 11/23/05 statement of purpose the purpose of this article is to provide a high-level technical overview of the architecture of the extensible, object-based mozilla application framework.

Debugging Frame Reflow
general overview the frame reflow can be logged with the debug capabilities implemented in nsframe.cpp.

Message manager
guides message manager overview frame script loading and lifetime communicating with frame scripts performance best practices frame script environment limitations of frame scripts process scripts api reference nsiframescriptloader nsimessagelistenermanager nsimessagebroadcaster nsimessagesender nsisyncmessagesender nsicontentframemessagemanager nsiprocessscr...

Firefox and the "about" protocol
here is a complete list of urls in the about: pseudo protocol: about: page description about:about provides an overview of all about: pages available for your current firefox version about:addons add-ons manager about:buildconfig displays the configuration and platform used to build firefox about:cache displays information about the memory, disk, and appcache about:checkerboard switches to the checkerboarding measurement page, which allows to detect checkerboarding i...

Embedding Mozilla
mozilla embedding apis overview introduction to the mozilla embedding apis.

Script security
this page provides an overview of the script security architecture in gecko.

Integrated Authentication
this document provides an overview of mozilla's support for integrated authentication.

Introduction to Layout in Mozilla
overview basic data flow key data structures detailed walk-through incrementalism future tech-talks wrap-up, q&a basic data flow source document arrives via network apis incrementally “pumped” through the single-threaded layout engine parse, compute style, render; repeat css used for rendering all content content theoretically separate from “presentation” key data structures content node elements, attributes, leaves dom frame rectangular formatting primitive geometric information [0..n] per content node 2nd thru nth are “continuations” style context non-geometric information may be shared by adjacent frames reference counted, owned by frame ...

Addon
overview of required methods void iscompatiblewith(in string appversion, in string platformversion) void findupdates(in updatelistener listener, in integer reason, in string appversion, in string platformversion) overview of optional methods void uninstall() void canceluninstall() boolean hasresource(in string path) nsiuri getresourceuri(in st...

AddonInstall
method overview void install() void cancel() void addlistener(in installlistener listener) void removelistener(in installlistener listener) properties attribute type description name string the name of the add-on being installed.

AddonListener
method overview void onenabling(in addon addon, in boolean needsrestart) void onenabled(in addon addon) void ondisabling(in addon addon, in boolean needsrestart) void ondisabled(in addon addon) void oninstalling(in addon addon, in boolean needsrestart) void oninstalled(in addon addon) void onuninstalling(in addon addon, in boolean needsrestart) void onuninstalled(in addon ad...

AddonUpdateChecker
to import the addonupdatechecker, use: components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/addonupdatechecker.jsm"); method overview updateinfo getcompatibilityupdate(in updateinfo updates[], in string version, in boolean ignorecompatibility, in string appversion, in string platformversion) updateinfo getnewestcompatibleupdate(in updateinfo updates[], in string appversion, in string platformversion) void checkforupdates(in string id, in string type, in string updatekey, string url, in updatechecklistener listener) constants constant ...

InstallListener
method overview void onnewinstall(in addoninstall install) void ondownloadstarted(in addoninstall install) void ondownloadprogress(in addoninstall install) void ondownloadended(in addoninstall install) void ondownloadcancelled(in addoninstall install) void ondownloadfailed(in addoninstall install) void oninstallstarted(in addoninstall install) void oninstallended(in addoninstall install, in addon addon) void oninstallcancelled(in addoninstall install) void oninstallfailed(in addoninstall install) void o...

TypeListener
method overview void ontypeadded(in addontype type) void ontyperemoved(in addontype type) methods ontypeadded() called when an add-on type has been added.

UpdateCheckListener
method overview void onupdatecheckcomplete(in updateinfo results[]) void onupdatecheckerror(in integer status) methods onupdatecheckcomplete() called when the update check completed successfully.

UpdateListener
method overview void oncompatibilityupdateavailable(in addon addon) void onnocompatibilityupdateavailable(in addon addon) void onupdateavailable(in addon addon, in addoninstall install) void onnoupdateavailable(in addon addon) void onupdatefinished(in addon addon, in integer error) methods oncompatibilityupdateavailable() called when the update check found c...

Add-on Repository
to import the add-on repository code module, use: components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/addonrepository.jsm"); method overview string getrecommendedurl() string getsearchurl(in string searchterms) void cancelsearch() void retrieverecommendedaddons(in integer maxresults, in searchcallback callback) void searchaddons(in string searchterms, in integer maxresults, in searchcallback callback) properties property type description homepageurl strin...

Assert.jsm
method overview undefined ok(value, message); undefined equal(actual, expected, message); undefined notequal(actual, expected, message); undefined deepequal(actual, expected, message); undefined notdeepequal(actual, expected, message); undefined strictequal(actual, expected, message); undefined notstrictequal(actual, expected, message); und...

AsyncShutdown.jsm
methods overview void addblocker(string name, function|promise condition, optional function info) boolean removeblocker(function|promise condition) methods addblocker () register a blocker for the completion of a phase.

CustomizableUI.jsm
method overview void addlistener(alistener); void removelistener(alistener); void registerarea(aareaid, aproperties); void registertoolbarnode(atoolbar, aexistingchildren); void registermenupanel(apanel); void unregisterarea(aareaid, adestroyplacements); void addwidgettoarea(awidgetid, aareaid, [optional] aposition); void removewidgetfromar...

DeferredTask.jsm
method overview bool ispending();obsolete since gecko 28 void start();obsolete since gecko 28 void flush();obsolete since gecko 28 void cancel();obsolete since gecko 28 void arm(); void disarm(); promise finalize(); attributes isarmed boolean indicates whether the task is currently requested to start again later, regardless of...

Dict.jsm
method overview dict copy(); boolean del(string akey); object get(string akey, [optional] object adefault); boolean has(string akey); array listitems(); array listkeys(); array listvalues(); void set(string akey, object avalue); string tojson(); string tostring(); properties attribute type descripti...

Download
method overview promise start(); promise launch(); promise showcontainingdirectory(); promise cancel(); promise removepartialdata(); promise whensucceeded(); promise finalize([optional] boolean aremovepartialdata); properties attribute type description canceled read only boolean indicates that the download has been canceled.

DownloadList
method overview promise<array<download>> getall(); promise add(download adownload); promise remove(download adownload); promise addview(object aview); promise removeview(object aview); void removefinished([optional] function afilterfn); methods getall() retrieves a snapshot of the downloads that are currently in the list.

DownloadSummary
method overview promise bindtolist(downloadlist alist); promise addview(object aview); promise removeview(object aview); properties attribute type description allhavestopped read only boolean indicates whether all the downloads are currently stopped.

DownloadTarget
method overview promise refresh() properties attribute type description exists read only boolean indicates whether or not the target file exists.

Downloads.jsm
to use it, you first need to import the code module into your javascript scope: components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/downloads.jsm"); method overview promise<download> createdownload(object aproperties); promise<void> fetch(asource, atarget, [optional] object aoptions); promise<downloadlist> getlist(atype); promise<downloadsummary> getsummary(atype); constants constant description public work on downloads that were not started from a private browsing window.

FileUtils.jsm
to use it, you first need to import the code module into your javascript scope: components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/fileutils.jsm"); the file constructor if you have a path to a file (or directory) you want to obtain an nsifile for, you can do so using the file constructor, like this: var f = new fileutils.file(mypath); method overview nsifile getfile(string key, array patharray, bool followlinks); nsifile getdir(string key, array patharray, bool shouldcreate, bool followlinks); nsifileoutputstream openfileoutputstream(nsifile file, int modeflags); nsifileoutputstream openatomicfileoutputstream(nsifile file, int modeflags); nsifileoutputstream opensafefileoutputstream(nsifile file, ...

FxAccountsOAuthClient.jsm
components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/fxaccountsoauthclient.jsm"); creating a new fxaccountsoauthclient new fxaccountsoauthclient(object options); method overview launchwebflow(); teardown(); attributes parameters object returns the set of parameters that initialized the firefox accounts oauth flow.

FxAccountsProfileClient.jsm
components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/fxaccountsprofileclient.jsm"); creating a new fxaccountsprofileclient new fxaccountsprofileclient(object options); method overview fetchprofile(); attributes serverurl url profiler server url.

ISO8601DateUtils.jsm
using the iso 8601 date utilities to convert a date string into a date object, simply use: dateobj = iso8601dateutils.parse(datestring); to convert a date object into a date string: datestring = iso8601dateutils.create(dateobj); method overview string create(adate); date parse(adatestring); methods create creates an iso 8601 format date string, e.g.

JNI.jsm
method overview cdata getforthread(); cdata loadclass(cdata ajenv, string aclassfullyqualifiedname, [optional] object adeclares); cdata newstring(cdata ajenv, string astr); string readstring(cdata ajenv, cdata ajavastring); void unloadclasses(); methods getforthread() blah blah cdata getforthread(); parameters this function does not take any arguments.

NetUtil.jsm
method overview nsiasyncstreamcopier asynccopy(nsiinputstream asource, nsioutputstream asink, [optional] acallback) void asyncfetch(asource, acallback) nsichannel newchannel(awhattoload, [optional] aorigincharset, [optional] nsiuri abaseuri) nsiuri newuri(atarget, [optional] aorigincharset, [optional] nsiuri abaseuri) string readinputstreamtostring(ainputstream, acount, aoptions) attributes attribute...

OS.File.Error
} catch (ex) { if (ex instanceof os.file.error && ex.becausenosuchfile) { // the file does not exist } } global object os.file.error methods overview the following functions are utility functions that may be used to construct instances of os.file.error, setting the platform-specific error number.

PerfMeasurement.jsm
method overview static bool canmeasuresomething(); void reset(); void start(); void stop(); member fields recorded data variables these variables provide access to the recorded data.

PopupNotifications.jsm
method overview void locationchange(); notification getnotification(id, browser); void remove(notification); notification show(browser, id, message, anchorid, mainaction, secondaryactions, options); properties attribute type description ispanelopen boolean returns true if the notification panel is currently visible, false if it is not.

Deferred
for example, the equivalent of var deferred = promise.defer(); dosomething(function cb(good) { if (good) deferred.resolve(); else deferred.reject(); }); return deferred.promise; would be return new promise(function(resolve, reject) { dosomething(function cb(good) { if (good) resolve(); else reject(); }); }); method overview void resolve([optional] avalue); void reject([optional] areason); properties attribute type description promise read only promise a newly created promise, initially in the pending state.

Promise
method overview promise then([optional] function onfulfill, [optional] function onreject); promise catch([optional] function onreject); constructor creates a new promise, initially in the pending state, and provides references to the resolving functions that can be used to change its state.

Promise.jsm
method overview deferred defer(); obsolete since gecko 30 promise resolve([optional] avalue); promise reject([optional] areason); methods defer() creates a new pending promise and provides methods to resolve or reject it.

Deferred
method overview void resolve([optional] avalue); void reject([optional] areason); properties attribute type description promise read only promise a newly created promise, initially in the pending state.

PromiseUtils.jsm
to use it, you first need to import the code module into your javascript scope: components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/promiseutils.jsm"); method overview deferred defer(); methods defer() creates a new pending promise and provides methods to resolve or reject this promise.

Task.jsm
method overview function async(atask); promise spawn(atask); properties attribute type description result read only constructor constructs a special exception that, when thrown inside a legacy generator function, allows the associated task to be resolved with a specific value.

WebChannel.jsm
method overview listen(function callback); stoplistening(); send(object message, eventtarget target); attributes id string webchannel id methods listen() registers the callback for messages on this channel.

Webapps.jsm
importing components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/webapps.jsm"); // exported symbol is domapplicationregistry method overview init: function() loadcurrentregistry: function() notifyappsregistrystart: function notifyappsregistrystart() notifyappsregistryready: function notifyappsregistryready() sanitizeredirects: function sanitizeredirects(asource) _savewidgetsfullpath: function(amanifest, adestapp) appkind: function(aapp, amanifest) updatepermissionsforapp: function(aid, aispreinstalled) updateofflinecacheforapp: function(aid) installpreinstalledapp: function installpreinstalledapp(aid) removeifhttpsduplicate: function(aid) installsystemapps: function()...

XPCOMUtils.jsm
odule() entry point finally, you need to implement the nsgetmodule() entry point so gecko can start up your component: // "components" is the array created in the previous section if ("generatensgetfactory" in xpcomutils) var nsgetfactory = xpcomutils.generatensgetfactory(components); // gecko 2.0+ else var nsgetmodule = xpcomutils.generatensgetmodule(components); // gecko 1.9.x method overview function definelazygetter(aobject, aname, alambda); function definelazymodulegetter(aobject, aname, aresource, [optional] asymbol); function definelazyservicegetter(aobject, aname, acontract, ainterfacename); function generatensgetfactory(componentsarray); function generateci(classinfo); function generateqi(interfaces); void importr...

openLocationLastURL.jsm
using the openlocationlasturl object to get or set the value of the open location edit box, simply read the value of, or set the value of, the openlocationlasturl.value field: var url = openlocationlasturl.value; openlocationlasturl.value = "http://www.mozilla.org/"; to reset the value of the edit box to the default (which is an empty string), you can call the reset() method: method overview reset() methods reset the reset() method resets the saved url to the default, which is an empty string.

Application Translation with Mercurial
you will see something like this: on the left, you see an overview of the comparison of the english and the non-english file.

Bootstrapping a new locale
you can do this by entering the following url into your browser: $ https://bitbucket.org/mozillal10n/ab-cd/overview/ (where ab-cd will be replaced by your locale code) at that main page of your newly created bit bucket repo, you'll see the hg commands, $ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/mozillal10n/ab-cd/ ...

Index
17 localization sign-off reviews guide, localization, mozilla this article presents an overview of why we do sign-off reviews of localizations, the details on the criteria used for the sign-off reviews, and the process for requesting a review and for following its progress.

Fonts for Mozilla 2.0's MathML engine
overview mathematical formulas make use of various symbols represented by specific unicode characters.

Mozilla MathML Status
an overview of the mathml 3 elements/attributes - excluding deprecated ones - and the current status of the native support.

Various MathML Tests
overview of presentation mathml elements testing tensor indices <mmultiscripts>: r i1 j2 k3 ; this with <none/>, a qp i a bit of calculus: ∫ a b f ( x ) dx ∂ ∂ x f ( x , y ) + ∂ ∂ y f ( x , y ) here is the alphabet with invisible portions wrapped by <mphantom> in between: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z .

Mozilla MathML Project
for a quick overview, see the slides for the innovation fairs at mozilla summit 2013.

Mozilla DOM Hacking Guide
nsiclassinfo is an xpcom interface, very well described by mike shaver in this overview of nsiclassinfo.

Mozilla Web Services Security Model
overview (this document is being compiled from scattered documentation and source code and most of the information in it has not been verified.

Mozilla projects on GitHub
bugzilla-dashboard a convenient dashboard to help you get an overview of your bugs.

Activity Monitor, Battery Status Menu and top
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

DMD
see this other page for an overview of how to use heap scan mode to fix a leak involving refcounted objects.

Gecko Profiler FAQ
overview of the changes in the last (year?) to cleopatra/etc faster, hopefully more reliable has a timeline tab lets you hide threads with a context menu supports symbolication for local builds on windows if you run “mach buildsymbols” first profiling non-nsthreads?

Intel Power Gadget
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

Profiling with Instruments
official apple documentation instruments user guide instruments user reference instruments help articles instruments help performance overview basic usage select "time profiler" from the "choose a profiling template for:" dialog.

TimerFirings logging
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

dtrace
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

perf
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

powermetrics
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

tools/power/rapl
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

turbostat
note: the power profiling overview is worth reading at this point if you haven't already.

Performance
investigating css performance how to figure out why restyle is taking so long power profiling power profiling overview this page provides an overview of relevant information, including details about hardware, what can be measured, and recommended approaches.

A brief guide to Mozilla preferences
it provides a general overview of mozilla preferences, including where preferences are stored, a file-by-file analysis of preference loading sequence, and information on editing preferences.

NSS FAQ
for an overview of nss, see overview of nss.

Getting Started With NSS
a general overview of the applications that use nss and the features it provides.

Introduction to Network Security Services
for a general overview of nss and the standards it supports, see overview of nss.

JSS Provider Notes
the mozilla-jss jca provider newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto overview this document describes the jca provider shipped with jss.

Mozilla-JSS JCA Provider notes
the mozilla-jss jca provider newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto overview this document describes the jca provider shipped with jss.

NSS sources building testing
getting source code, and a quick overview the easiest way is to download archives of nss releases from mozilla's download server.

NSS reference
building and installing nss overview of an nss application based on "overview of an ssl application" in the ssl reference.

OLD SSL Reference
upgraded documentation may be found in the current nss reference ssl reference newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto writer: sean cotter manager: wan-teh chang chapter 1 overview of an ssl application ssl and related apis allow compliant applications to configure sockets for authenticated, tamper-proof, and encrypted communications.

sslintro.html
upgraded documentation may be found in the current nss reference overview of an ssl application chapter 1 overview of an ssl application ssl and related apis allow compliant applications to configure sockets for authenticated, tamper-proof, and encrypted communications.

NSS Tools
nss security tools newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto overview the nss security tools allow developers to test, debug, and manage applications that use nss.

Necko
browse our code in its latest state at netwerk/ documents a necko code walkthrough necko architecture necko multithreading necko faq necko interfaces overview the necko http module proxies in necko pac files community view mozilla forums...

Rhino documentation
general overview an overview of the javascript language and of rhino.

Rhino JavaScript compiler
overview the javascript compiler translates javascript source into java class files.

Creating JavaScript jstest reftests
directory overview in the js/src/tests directory, there are a few important subdirectories.

GCIntegration - SpiderMonkey Redirect 1
overview before digging too deep, here are some quick rules of thumb for how to write code that will work smoothly with the gc regardless of changes that happen in the future.

Statistics API
overview each time a garbage collection occurs, spidermonkey keeps track of how long each phase of the collection took, along with some related data.

Garbage collection
design overview spidermonkey has a mark-sweep garbage collection (gc) with incremental marking mode, generational collection, and compaction.

JSAPI User Guide
an overview of jsapi functionality follows.

Zest implementation
related links zest overview ...

Zest runtimes
related links zest overview ...

Zest tools
related links zest overview ...

Zest usecase: Reporting Security Vulnerabilities to Developers
related links zest overview ...

Zest
overview zest is an experimental specialized scripting language (also known as a domain-specific language) developed by the mozilla security team and is intended to be used in web oriented security tools.

A Web PKI x509 certificate primer
this article provides an overview of what these are and how they work.

Browser security
this article provides an overview of what these are and how they work.exploitable crashesthis article will help you determine if a crash is exploitable, find crashes which are exploitable, and to fix exploitable crashes.handling mozilla security bugsthis document describes how the new security organizational structure will work, and how security-related mozilla bug reports will be handled.pinning violation reportsif a site makes ...

Animated PNG graphics
authors the apng specification was authored by: stuart parmenter <pavlov@pavlov.net> vladimir vukicevic <vladimir@pobox.com> andrew smith <asmith15@littlesvr.ca> overview apng is an extension of the portable network graphics (png) format, adding support for animated images.

The Places database
this document provides a high-level overview of the overall database design of the places system.

History Service Design
this document provides a high-level overview of the overall history service design of the places system.

Places Developer Guide
overview places is the umbrella term for a set of apis for managing browsing history and uri metadata first introduced in firefox 3.

Places utilities for JavaScript
placesutils method overview nsiuri createfixeduri(string aspec); string getformattedstring(string key, string params); string getstring(string key); boolean nodeisfolder(nsinavhistoryresultnode anode); boolean nodeisbookmark(nsinavhistoryresultnode anode); boolean nodeisseparator(nsinavhistoryresultnode anode); boolean nodeisvisit(nsinavhistoryresultnode anode)...

Using the Places annotation service
for an overview of the places database design, see the places database.

Using the Places favicon service
for an overview of the database design, see the places database.

Places
design documents the places database high-level overview of the places database design.

extIApplication
method overview boolean quit() boolean restart() void getextensions(extiextensionscallback acallback) attributes the following interfaces are available to all applications: attribute type description id readonly attribute astring the id of the application.

extIExtension
method overview fixme: attributes attribute type description id readonly attribute astring the id of the extension.

extIPreferenceBranch
method overview boolean has(in astring aname) extipreference get(in astring aname) nsivariant getvalue(in astring aname, in nsivariant adefaultvalue) void setvalue(in astring aname, in nsivariant avalue) void reset() attributes attribute type description root readonly attribute astring the name of the branch root.

extISessionStorage
method overview these methods are usually accessed via application.storage.

Component Internals
an overview of xpcom discussed the factory design pattern that's used in a factory object.

Preface
organization of the tutorial the following list provides an overview of the steps that we will take to build an xpcom component called weblock, which provides site blocking functionality to gecko-based browsers.

Using XPCOM Components
it is handled by the queryinterface method, which was introduced in the chapter an overview of xpcom.

Interfacing with the XPCOM cycle collector
this is a quick overview of the cycle collector introduced into xpcom for firefox 3, including a description of the steps involved in modifying an existing c++ class to participate in xpcom cycle collection.

XPConnect wrappers
this document is a high-level overview of xpconnect wrapper objects (for the more technical description see xpconnect security membranes).

NS_ConvertASCIItoUTF16
class declaration method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign ...

NS ConvertASCIItoUTF16 external
class declaration method overview constructors get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercaseequalsliteral find ...

NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8
class declaration a helper class that converts a utf-16 string to utf-8 method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequa...

NS ConvertUTF16toUTF8 external
class declaration method overview constructors get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar ...

NS_ConvertUTF8toUTF16
class declaration method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign ...

NS ConvertUTF8toUTF16 external
class declaration method overview constructors get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercaseequalsliteral find ...

NS_LossyConvertUTF16toASCII
class declaration a helper class that converts a utf-16 string to ascii in a lossy manner method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii...

NS LossyConvertUTF16toASCII external
class declaration method overview constructors get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar ...

PromiseFlatCString (External)
class declaration method overview get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar rfindchar ...

PromiseFlatString (External)
class declaration method overview get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercaseequalsliteral find rfind findc...

nsACString (External)
rnal" shape="rect" title="ns_convertutf16toutf8_external"> <area alt="" coords="499,294,779,342" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/ns_lossyconvertutf16toascii_external" shape="rect" title="ns_lossyconvertutf16toascii_external"> <area alt="" coords="803,294,925,342" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsliteralcstring_(external)" shape="rect" title="nsliteralcstring_(external)"></map> method overview beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral operator= replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut trunc...

nsACString_internal
p://developer.mozilla.org/en/ns_lossyconvertutf16toascii" shape="rect" title="ns_lossyconvertutf16toascii"> <area alt="" coords="251,389,435,437" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/ns_convertutf16toutf8" shape="rect" title="ns_convertutf16toutf8"> <area alt="" coords="309,293,445,341" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsadoptingcstring" shape="rect" title="nsadoptingcstring"> </map> method overview constructors beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign ...

nsAString (External)
toutf16_external" shape="rect" title="ns_convertasciitoutf16_external"> <area alt="" coords="491,294,733,342" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/ns_convertutf8toutf16_external" shape="rect" title="ns_convertutf8toutf16_external"> <area alt="" coords="757,294,869,342" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsliteralstring_(external)" shape="rect" title="nsliteralstring_(external)"> </map> method overview beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral operator= replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operato...

nsAString_internal
7" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/ns_convertasciitoutf16" shape="rect" title="ns_convertasciitoutf16"> <area alt="" coords="216,389,400,437" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/ns_convertutf8toutf16" shape="rect" title="ns_convertutf8toutf16"> <area alt="" coords="277,293,405,341" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsadoptingstring" shape="rect" title="nsadoptingstring"> </map> method overview constructors beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign ...

nsAdoptingCString
method overview constructors operator= operator const char* operator[] get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data l...

nsAdoptingString
method overview constructors operator= operator const prunichar* operator[] get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length ...

nsAutoString
names: nsautostring for wide characters nscautostring for narrow characters method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading ...

nsAutoString (External)
class declaration method overview get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercaseequalsliteral find rfind findc...

nsCAutoString
names: nsautostring for wide characters nscautostring for narrow characters method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim ...

nsCAutoString (External)
class declaration method overview get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar rfindchar ...

nsCString
method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginw...

nsCStringContainer (External)
class declaration method overview beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral operator= replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare(const char*, print32 (*) compare(const nsacstring&, print32 (*) equals(const char*, print32 (*) equals(const nsacstring&, print32 (*) operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> ...

nsCString external
class declaration method overview constructors get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar ...

nsDependentCString
method overview constructors assertvalid rebind operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendi...

nsDependentCString external
class declaration method overview constructors rebind get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind ...

nsDependentCSubstring
names: nsdependentsubstring for wide characters nsdependentcsubstring for narrow characters method overview constructors rebind beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign assignascii assignliteral(const cha...

nsDependentCSubstring external
class declaration method overview constructors rebind beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral operator= replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar rfindchar...

nsDependentString
method overview constructors assertvalid rebind operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appen...

nsDependentString external
class declaration dependent strings method overview constructors rebind get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercasee...

nsDependentSubstring
names: nsdependentsubstring for wide characters nsdependentcsubstring for narrow characters method overview constructors rebind beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign assignascii assignliteral(const cha...

nsDependentSubstring external
class declaration substrings method overview constructors rebind beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral operator= replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare(const prunichar*, print32 (*) compare(const nsastring&, print32 (*) equals(const prunichar*, print32 (*) equals(const nsastring&, print32 (*) operator< operator<= ...

nsFixedCString
class declaration method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char ...

nsFixedString
class declaration method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign ...

nsLiteralCString (External)
class declaration method overview rebind get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar rfi...

nsLiteralString (External)
class declaration method overview rebind get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral find rfind findchar rfi...

nsPromiseFlatCString
class declaration method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char ...

nsPromiseFlatString
class declaration method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting endwriting data length isempty isvoid isterminated charat operator[] first last countchar findchar equals equalsascii equalsliteral(const char equalsliteral(char lowercaseequalsascii lowercaseequalsliteral(const char lowercaseequalsliteral(char assign ...

nsString
method overview constructors operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat beginreading endreading beginwriting e...

nsStringContainer (External)
class declaration method overview beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral operator= replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercaseequalsliteral find rfind findchar rfindchar ...

nsString external
class declaration basic strings method overview constructors get operator= adopt beginreading endreading charat operator[] first beginwriting endwriting setlength length isempty setisvoid isvoid assign assignliteral replace append appendliteral operator+= insert cut truncate stripchars stripwhitespace trim defaultcomparator compare equals operator< operator<= operator== operator>= operator> operator!= equalsliteral lowercaseequalsliteral ...

nsXPIDLCString
names: nsxpidlstring for wide characters nsxpidlcstring for narrow characters method overview constructors operator const char* operator[] operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset compare equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendflo...

nsXPIDLString
names: nsxpidlstring for wide characters nsxpidlcstring for narrow characters method overview constructors operator const prunichar* operator[] operator= get find rfind rfindchar findcharinset rfindcharinset equalsignorecase tofloat tointeger mid left right setcharat stripchars stripwhitespace replacechar replacesubstring trim compresswhitespace assignwithconversion appendwithconversion appendint appendfloat ...

IAccessible2
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: iaccessible last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview [propget] hresult attributes([out] bstr attributes ); [propget] hresult extendedrole([out] bstr extendedrole ); [propget] hresult extendedstates([in] long maxextendedstates, [out, size_is(,maxextendedstates), length_is(, nextendedstates)] bstr extendedstates, [out] long nextendedstates ); [propget] hresult groupposition([out] long grouplevel, [out] long similaritemsingroup, [out] long positioningroup ); [propget] hresult indexinparent([out] long indexinparent ); [propget] hresult locale([out] ia2locale locale ); [propget] hresult localizedextendedrole([out]...

IAccessibleAction
method overview [propget] hresult description([in] long actionindex, [out] bstr description ); hresult doaction([in] long actionindex ); [propget] hresult keybinding([in] long actionindex, [in] long nmaxbindings, [out, size_is(,nmaxbindings), length_is(, nbindings)] bstr keybindings, [out] long nbindings ); [propget] hresult localizedname([in] long actionindex, [out] bstr localizedname ); hresult nact...

IAccessibleApplication
method overview [propget] hresult appname([out] bstr name ); [propget] hresult appversion([out] bstr version ); [propget] hresult toolkitname([out] bstr name ); [propget] hresult toolkitversion([out] bstr version ); methods appname() returns the application name.

IAccessibleComponent
method overview [propget] hresult background([out] ia2color background ); [propget] hresult foreground([out] ia2color foreground ); [propget] hresult locationinparent([out] long x, [out] long y ); methods background() returns the background color of this object.

IAccessibleEditableText
method overview hresult copytext([in] long startoffset, [in] long endoffset ); hresult cuttext([in] long startoffset, [in] long endoffset ); hresult deletetext([in] long startoffset, [in] long endoffset ); hresult inserttext([in] long offset, [in] bstr text ); hresult pastetext([in] long offset ); hresult replacetext([in] long startoffset, [in] long endoffset, [in] bstr text ); hresult setattribut...

IAccessibleHyperlink
method overview [propget] hresult anchor([in] long index, [out] variant anchor ); [propget] hresult anchortarget([in] long index, [out] variant anchortarget ); [propget] hresult endindex([out] long index ); [propget] hresult startindex([out] long index ); [propget] hresult valid([out] boolean valid ); methods anchor() returns an object that represents the link anchor, as appropriate for the link at...

IAccessibleHypertext
method overview [propget] hresult hyperlink([in] long index, [out] iaccessiblehyperlink hyperlink ); [propget] hresult hyperlinkindex([in] long charindex, [out] long hyperlinkindex ); [propget] hresult nhyperlinks([out] long hyperlinkcount ); methods hyperlink() returns the specified link.

IAccessibleImage
method overview [propget] hresult description([out] bstr description ); [propget] hresult imageposition([in] enum ia2coordinatetype coordinatetype, [out] long x, [out] long y ); [propget] hresult imagesize([out] long height, [out] long width ); methods description() returns the localized description of the image.

IAccessibleRelation
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: iunknown last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview [propget] hresult localizedrelationtype([out] bstr localizedrelationtype ); [propget] hresult ntargets([out] long ntargets ); [propget] hresult relationtype([out] bstr relationtype ); [propget] hresult target([in] long targetindex, [out] iunknown target ); [propget] hresult targets([in] long maxtargets, [out, size_is(maxtargets), length_is( ntargets)] iunknown targets, [out] long ntargets ); methods localizedrelationtype() returns a localized version of the relation type.

IAccessibleTable
method overview [propget] hresult accessibleat([in] long row, [in] long column, [out] iunknown accessible ); [propget] hresult caption([out] iunknown accessible ); [propget] hresult childindex([in] long rowindex, [in] long columnindex, [out] long cellindex ); [propget] hresult columndescription([in] long column, [out] bstr description ); [propget] hresult columnextentat([in] long row, [in] long column...

IAccessibleTable2
method overview [propget] hresult caption([out] iunknown accessible ); [propget] hresult cellat([in] long row, [in] long column, [out] iunknown cell ); [propget] hresult columndescription([in] long column, [out] bstr description ); [propget] hresult iscolumnselected([in] long column, [out] boolean isselected ); [propget] hresult isrowselected([in] long row, [out] boolean isselected ); [propget] hres...

IAccessibleTableCell
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: iunknown last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview [propget] hresult columnextent([out] long ncolumnsspanned ); [propget] hresult columnheadercells([out, size_is(, ncolumnheadercells,)] iunknown cellaccessibles, [out] long ncolumnheadercells ); [propget] hresult columnindex([out] long columnindex ); [propget] hresult isselected([out] boolean isselected ); [propget] hresult rowcolumnextents([out] long row, [out] long column, [out] long rowextents, [out] long columnextents, [out] boolean isselected ); [propget] hresult rowextent([out] long...

IAccessibleText
method overview hresult addselection([in] long startoffset, [in] long endoffset ); [propget] hresult attributes([in] long offset, [out] long startoffset, [out] long endoffset, [out] bstr textattributes ); [propget] hresult caretoffset([out] long offset ); [propget] hresult characterextents([in] long offset, [in] enum ia2coordinatetype coordtype, [out] long x, [out] long y, [out] long width, [out] long h...

IAccessibleValue
method overview [propget] hresult currentvalue([out] variant currentvalue ); [propget] hresult maximumvalue([out] variant maximumvalue ); [propget] hresult minimumvalue([out] variant minimumvalue ); hresult setcurrentvalue([in] variant value ); methods currentvalue() returns the value of this object as a number.

IJSDebugger
method overview [implicit_jscontext] void addclass(); methods addclass() defines the global debugger constructor.

amIInstallCallback
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void oninstallended(in astring aurl, in print32 astatus); methods oninstallended() called when an install completes or fails.

amIInstallTrigger
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean enabled(); boolean install(in nsivariant aargs, [optional] in amiinstallcallback acallback); boolean installchrome(in pruint32 atype, in astring aurl, in astring askin); deprecated since gecko 2.0 boolean startsoftwareupdate(in astring aurl, [optional] in print32 aflags); deprecated since gecko 2.0 boolean updateenabled(); deprecated since gecko 2.0 constants retained for backwards compatibility.

amIWebInstallInfo
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void install(); attributes attribute type description installs nsivariant an array of addoninstall objects.

amIWebInstallListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview boolean onwebinstallblocked(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); void onwebinstalldisabled(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); boolean onwebinstallrequested(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [...

amIWebInstallPrompt
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview void confirm(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); prior to gecko 8.0, all references to nsidomwindow used in this interface were nsidomwindow.

amIWebInstaller
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview boolean installaddonsfromwebpage(in astring amimetype, in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri areferer, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring auris, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring ahashes, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring anames, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring aicons, [optional] in amiinstallcallback acallback, [optional] in pruint32 ainstallcount); boolean isinstallenabled(in astring amimetype, in nsiuri areferer); note: prior to...

imgICache
method overview void clearcache(in boolean chrome); nsiproperties findentryproperties(in nsiuri uri); void removeentry(in nsiuri uri); methods clearcache() evict images from the cache.

imgIContainer
as a service: var imgicontainer = components.classes["@mozilla.org/????????????????????????????"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.imgicontainer); method overview void addrestoredata([array, size_is(acount), const] in char data, in unsigned long acount); native code only!

imgIContainerObserver
method overview void framechanged(in imgirequest arequest, in imgicontainer acontainer, [const] in nsintrect adirtyrect); native code only!

imgIDecoder
method overview void close(); void flush(); void init(in imgiload aload); unsigned long writefrom(in nsiinputstream instr, in unsigned long count); methods close() closes the stream.

imgIDecoderObserver
method overview void ondataavailable(in imgirequest arequest, in boolean acurrentframe, [const] in nsintrect arect); native code only!

imgIEncoder
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsiasyncinputstream last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void addimageframe( [array, size_is(length), const] in pruint8 data, in unsigned long length, in pruint32 width, in pruint32 height, in pruint32 stride, in pruint32 frameformat, in astring frameoptions); void encodeclipboardimage(in nsiclipboardimage aclipboardimage, out nsifile aimagefile); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void endimageencode(); void initfromdata([array, size_is(length), const] in pruint8 data, in unsigned long length, in pruint32 width, in pruint32 height, in pruint32 stride, in pruint32 inputformat, in astring outputoptions); void s...

imgILoader
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by @mozilla.org/image/loader;1 as a service: var imgiloader = components.classes["@mozilla.org/image/loader;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.imgiloader); method overview imgirequest loadimage(in nsiuri auri, in nsiuri ainitialdocumenturl, in nsiuri areferreruri, in nsiprincipal aloadingprincipal, in nsiloadgroup aloadgroup, in imgidecoderobserver aobserver, in nsisupports acx, in nsloadflags aloadflags, in nsisupports cachekey, in imgirequest arequest, in nsichannelpolicy channelpolicy); imgirequest loadimagewithchannel(in nsichannel achannel, in imgidecoderob...

imgIRequest
inherits from: nsirequest last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview void cancelandforgetobserver(in nsresult astatus); imgirequest clone(in imgidecoderobserver aobserver); void decrementanimationconsumers(); imgirequest getstaticrequest(); void incrementanimationconsumers(); void lockimage(); void requestdecode(); void unlockimage(); attributes attribute type description corsmode long the cors mode that this image was loaded with.

inIDOMUtils
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) implemented by: @mozilla.org/inspector/dom-utils;1 as a service: var inidomutils = components.classes["@mozilla.org/inspector/dom-utils;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.inidomutils); method overview void addpseudoclasslock(in nsidomelement aelement, in domstring apseudoclass); void clearpseudoclasslocks(in nsidomelement aelement); [implicit_jscontext] jsval colornametorgb(in domstring acolorname); nsiarray getbindingurls(in nsidomelement aelement); nsidomnodelist getchildrenfornode(in nsidomnode anode, in boolean ashowinganonymouscontent); ...

jsdIStackFrame
method overview boolean eval(in astring bytes, in autf8string filename, in unsigned long line, out jsdivalue result); attributes attribute type description callee jsdivalue function object running in this stack frame.

mozIAsyncFavicons
method overview void getfaviconurlforpage(in nsiuri apageuri, in nsifavicondatacallback acallback); void getfavicondataforpage(in nsiuri apageuri, in nsifavicondatacallback acallback); void setandfetchfaviconforpage(in nsiuri apageuri, in nsiuri afaviconuri, in boolean aforcereload, in unsigned long afaviconloadtype, [optional] in nsifavicondatacallback acallback);...

mozIAsyncHistory
1.0 66 introduced gecko 24.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 24.0 (firefox 24.0 / thunderbird 24.0 / seamonkey 2.21) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/history;1 as a service: var asynchistory = components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/history;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.moziasynchistory); method overview void getplacesinfo(in jsval aplaceidentifiers, in mozivisitinfocallback acallback); void isurivisited(in nsiuri auri, in mozivisitedstatuscallback acallback); void updateplaces(in moziplaceinfo, [optional] in mozivisitinfocallback acallback); methods getplacesinfo() starts an asynchronous request to determine whether or not a given uri has been visited; you must...

mozIColorAnalyzer
toolkit/components/places/mozicoloranalyzer.idlscriptable provides methods to analyze colors in an image 1.0 66 introduced gecko 17.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) method overview void findrepresentativecolor(in nsiuri imageuri, in mozirepresentativecolorcallback callback); methods findrepresentativecolor() given an image uri, find the most representative color for that image based on the frequency of each color.

mozIJSSubScriptLoader
method overview jsval loadsubscript(in string url, in object targetobj optional, in string charset optional); jsval loadsubscriptwithoptions(in string url, in object options); methods loadsubscript() synchronously loads and executes the script from the specified url.

mozIPersonalDictionary
to access this service, use var personaldictionary = components.classes["@mozilla.org/spellchecker/personaldictionary;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.mozipersonaldictionary); method overview void addcorrection(in wstring word,in wstring correction, in wstring lang); void addword(in wstring word, in wstring lang); boolean check(in wstring word, in wstring lang); void endsession(); void getcorrection(in wstring word, [array, size_is(count)] out wstring words, out pruint32 count); void ignoreword(in wstring word); void load(); void removecorrection(in wstring word,in ws...

mozIPlacesAutoComplete
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void registeropenpage(in nsiuri auri); void unregisteropenpage(in nsiuri auri); constants constant value description match_anywhere 0 match anywhere in each searchable term.

mozIRepresentativeColorCallback
toolkit/components/places/mozicoloranalyzer.idlscriptable provides callback methods for mozicoloranalyzer 1.0 66 introduced gecko 17.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) method overview void oncomplete(in boolean success, [optional] in unsigned long color); methods oncomplete() will be called when color analysis finishes.

mozISpellCheckingEngine
method overview void adddirectory(in nsifile dir); boolean check(in wstring word); void getdictionarylist([array, size_is(count)] out wstring dictionaries, out pruint32 count); void removedirectory(in nsifile dir); void suggest(in wstring word,[array, size_is(count)] out wstring suggestions, out pruint32 count); attributes ...

mozIStorageAggregateFunction
last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void onstep(in mozistoragevaluearray afunctionarguments); nsivariant onfinal(); methods onstep() this is called for each row of results returned by the query.

mozIStorageBindingParams
method overview void bindbyindex(in unsigned long aindex, in nsivariant avalue); void bindblobbyindex(in unsigned long aindex, [array, const, size_is(avaluesize)] in octet avalue, in unsigned long avaluesize); void binddoublebyindex(in unsigned long aindex, in double avalue); native code only!

mozIStorageBindingParamsArray
method overview void addparams(in mozistoragebindingparams aparameters); mozistoragebindingparams newbindingparams(); attributes attribute type description length unsigned long the number of mozistoragebindingparams objects in the array.

mozIStorageCompletionCallback
last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void complete(); methods complete() called when an asynchronous storage routine has completed.

mozIStorageFunction
last changed in gecko 1.9.1.4 (firefox 3.5.4) inherits from: nsisupports method overview nsivariant onfunctioncall(in mozistoragevaluearray afunctionarguments); methods onfunctioncall() the implementation of the function.

mozIStoragePendingStatement
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void cancel(); methods cancel() cancels the pending statement.

mozIStorageProgressHandler
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview boolean onprogress(in mozistorageconnection aconnection); methods onprogress() the onprogress() method is called periodically while an sqlite operation is ongoing.

mozIStorageResultSet
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview mozistoragerow getnextrow(); methods getnextrow() returns the next row from the result set.

mozIStorageRow
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: mozistoragevaluearray method overview nsivariant getresultbyindex(in unsigned long aindex); nsivariant getresultbyname(in autf8string aname); methods getresultbyindex() returns the value from a specific column in the row, using a zero-based index to identify the column.

mozIStorageService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) see mozistorageconnection method overview nsifile backupdatabasefile(in nsifile adbfile, in astring abackupfilename, [optional] in nsifile abackupparentdirectory); mozistorageconnection opendatabase(in nsifile adatabasefile); mozistorageconnection openspecialdatabase(in string astoragekey); mozistorageconnection openunshareddatabase(in nsifile adatabasefile); methods ba...

mozIStorageStatementCallback
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void handlecompletion(in unsigned short areason); void handleerror(in mozistorageerror aerror); void handleresult(in mozistorageresultset aresultset); constants constant value description reason_finished 0 the statement has finished executing normally.

mozIStorageStatementParams
for example, say you create a statement like so: var statement = dbconn.createstatement("select * from table_name where id = :item_id"); this object would have one property, item_id, that you can use to bind a value to that named parameter like so: statement.params.item_id = 2; for more details on why you should bind parameters as opposed to hard-coding them into your statement, please see the overview document about binding parameters.

mozIStorageStatementWrapper
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void initialize(in mozistoragestatement astatement); void reset(); boolean step(); void execute(); attributes attribute type description statement mozistoragestatement the statement that is wrapped.

mozIStorageVacuumParticipant
method overview boolean onbeginvacuum(); void onendvacuum(in boolean asucceeded); attributes attribute type description databaseconnection mozistorageconnection a connection to the database file to be vacuumed.

mozITXTToHTMLConv
last changed in gecko 1.8.1 (firefox 2 / thunderbird 2 / seamonkey 1.1) inherits from nsistreamconverter implemented by @mozilla.org/txttohtmlconv;1 as a service: var ios = components.classes["@mozilla.org/txttohtmlconv;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.mozitxttohtmlconv); method overview unsigned long citeleveltxt(in wstring line, out unsigned long loglinestart) void findurlinplaintext(in wstring text, in long alength, in long apos, out long astartpos, out long aendpos) wstring scanhtml(in wstring text, in unsigned long whattodo) wstring scantxt(in wstring text, in unsigned long whattodo) constants conversion control attributes these...

mozIThirdPartyUtil
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean isthirdpartychannel(in nsichannel achannel, [optional] in nsiuri auri); boolean isthirdpartyuri(in nsiuri afirsturi, in nsiuri aseconduri); boolean isthirdpartywindow(in nsidomwindow awindow, [optional] in nsiuri auri); methods isthirdpartychannel() determine whether the given channel and its content window hierarchy is third party.

mozIVisitInfoCallback
toolkit/components/places/public/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides callback handling functionality for moziasynchistory.updateplaces() 1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) method overview void handleerror(in nsresult aresultcode, in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo); void handleresult(in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo); void oncomplete(in nsresult aresultcode, in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo);obsolete since gecko 8.0 methods handleerror() called when a moziplaceinfo couldn't be processed.

mozIVisitStatusCallback
toolkit/components/places/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides callback handling functionality for moziasynchistory.isurivisited 1.0 66 introduced gecko 11.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) method overview void isvisited(in nsiuri auri, in boolean avisitedstatus); methods isvisited() called when the moziasynchistory.isurivisited() method's check to determine whether a given uri has been visited has completed.

nsIAbCard
inherits from: nsisupports method overview astring getcardvalue(in string name) void setcardvalue(in string attrname, in astring value) void copy(in nsiabcard srccard) boolean equals(in nsiabcard card) string converttobase64encodedxml() astring converttoxmlprintdata() string converttoescapedvcard() astring generatename(in long agenerateformat,[optional] in nsistringb...

nsIAboutModule
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview unsigned long geturiflags(in nsiuri auri); nsichannel newchannel(in nsiuri auri); constants constant value description uri_safe_for_untrusted_content (1 << 0) a flag that indicates whether a uri is safe for untrusted content.

nsIAccelerometerUpdate
method overview void accelerationchanged(in double x, in double y, in double z); methods accelerationchanged() void accelerationchanged( in double x, in double y, in double z ); parameters x y z the coordinates of the nsiacceleration data.

nsIAccessNode
method overview nsiaccessnode getchildnodeat(in long childnum); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsidomcssprimitivevalue getcomputedstylecssvalue(in domstring pseudoelt, in domstring propertyname); domstring getcomputedstylevalue(in domstring pseudoelt, in domstring propertyname); void scrollto(in unsigned long ascrolltype); void scrolltopoint(in unsigned long acoordinatet...

nsIAccessibilityService
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsiaccessibleretrieval method overview nsiaccessible createouterdocaccessible(in nsidomnode anode); nsiaccessible createrootaccessible(in nsipresshell ashell, in nsidocument adocument); nsiaccessible createhtml4buttonaccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhypertextaccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhtmlbraccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhtmlbuttonaccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhtmlaccessiblebymarkup(in nsiframe aframe, in nsiweakreference aweakshell, in nsidomnode adomnode); nsiaccessible creat...

nsIAccessible
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) overview this section provides short overview of methods and attributes of this interface.

nsIAccessibleDocument
you can also get one from nsiaccessnode.getaccessibledocument() or nsiaccessibleevent.getaccessibledocument() method overview nsiaccessible getaccessibleinparentchain(in nsidomnode adomnode, in boolean acancreate); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessnode getcachedaccessnode(in voidptr auniqueid); native code only!

nsIAccessibleEditableText
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void copytext(in long startpos, in long endpos); void cuttext(in long startpos, in long endpos); void deletetext(in long startpos, in long endpos); void inserttext(in astring text, in long position); void pastetext(in long position); void setattributes(in long startpos, in long endpos, in nsisupports attributes); unimplemented void s...

nsIAccessibleHyperLink
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview nsiaccessible getanchor(in long index); note: renamed from getobject in gecko 1.9 nsiuri geturi(in long index); boolean isselected(); obsolete since gecko 1.9 boolean isvalid(); obsolete since gecko 1.9 attributes attribute type description anchorcount long the number of anchors within this hyperlink.

nsIAccessibleHyperText
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview nsiaccessiblehyperlink getlink(in long linkindex); long getlinkindex(in long charindex); long getselectedlinkindex(); obsolete since gecko 1.9 attributes attribute type description linkcount long the number of links contained within this hypertext object.

nsIAccessibleImage
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void getimageposition(in unsigned long coordtype, out long x, out long y); void getimagesize(out long width, out long height); methods getimageposition() returns the coordinates of the image accessible.

nsIAccessibleRelation
method overview nsiaccessible gettarget(in unsigned long index); nsiarray gettargets(); attributes attribute type description relationtype unsigned long returns the type of the relation.

nsIAccessibleRetrieval
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsiaccessible getaccessiblefor(in nsidomnode anode); nsiaccessible getaccessibleinshell(in nsidomnode anode, in nsipresshell apresshell); nsiaccessible getaccessibleinweakshell(in nsidomnode anode, in nsiweakreference apresshell); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessible getaccessibleinwindow(in nsidomnode anode, in nsidomwindow adomwin); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessible getapplicationaccessible(); nsiaccessible getattachedaccessiblefor(in...

nsIAccessibleSelectable
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void addchildtoselection(in long index); void clearselection(); nsiarray getselectedchildren(); boolean ischildselected(in long index); nsiaccessible refselection(in long index); void removechildfromselection(in long index); boolean selectallselection(); attributes attribute type description selectioncount long the number of accessible children currently selected.

nsIAccessibleStateChangeEvent
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview boolean isenabled(); boolean isextrastate(); attributes attribute type description state unsigned long returns the state of accessible (see constants declared in nsiaccessiblestates).

nsIAccessibleTable
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsiaccessible getcellat(in long rowindex, in long columnindex); note: renamed from cellrefat in gecko 1.9.2 long getcellindexat(in long rowindex, in long columnindex); note: renamed from getindexat in gecko 1.9.2 astring getcolumndescription(in long columnindex); long getcolumnextentat(in long row, in long column); long getcolumnindexat(in long cellindex); note: renamed from getcolumnatindex in gecko 1.9.2 void getrowandcolumnindicesat(in long cellindex, out long rowindex, out long columnindex); astring getrowdescript...

nsIAccessibleTableCell
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview boolean isselected(); attributes attribute type description columnextent long return the number of columns occupied by this cell.

nsIAccessibleText
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void addselection(in long startoffset, in long endoffset); nsiaccessible getattributerange(in long offset, out long rangestartoffset, out long rangeendoffset); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 wchar getcharacteratoffset(in long offset); void getcharacterextents(in long offset, out long x, out long y, out long width, out long height, in unsigned long coordtype); long getoffsetatpoint(in long x, in long y, in unsigned long coordtype); void getrangeextents(in long startoffset, in long endoffset, out long x, out long y, out long width, out long height, in unsigned long coordty...

nsIAccessibleTextChangeEvent
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview boolean isinserted(); attributes attribute type description length unsigned long returns length of changed text.

nsIAccessibleTreeCache
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview nsiaccessible getcachedtreeitemaccessible(in long arow, in nsitreecolumn acolumn); void invalidatecache(in long arow, in long acount); void treeviewchanged(); void treeviewinvalidated(in long astartrow, in long aendrow, in long astartcol, in long aendcol); methods getcachedtreeitemaccessible() returns the tree item from the cache for the cell in the specified row and column; the ns...

nsIAccessibleValue
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview boolean setcurrentvalue(in double value); obsolete since gecko 1.9 attributes attribute type description currentvalue double maximumvalue double read only.

nsIAlertsService
implemented by: @mozilla.org/alerts-service;1 as a service: var alertsservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/alerts-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsialertsservice); method overview void showalertnotification(in astring imageurl, in astring title, in astring text, [optional] in boolean textclickable, [optional] in astring cookie, [optional] in nsiobserver alertlistener, [optional] in astring name, [optional] in astring dir, [optional] in astring lang, [optional] in astring data, [optional] in nsiprincipal principal,[optional] in boolean inprivatebrowsing); ...

nsIAnnotationObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void onitemannotationremoved(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname); void onitemannotationset(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname); void onpageannotationremoved(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname); void onpageannotationset(in nsiuri apage, in autf8string aname); methods onitemannotationremoved() this method is called when an annotation is deleted for an item.

nsIAnnotationService
method overview void setpageannotation(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname, in nsivariant avalue, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); void setitemannotation(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname, in nsivariant avalue, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); void setpageannotationstring(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname, in astring avalue, in long aflags, i...

nsIAppShell
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void create(inout int argc, inout string argv); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void dispatchnativeevent(in prbool arealevent, in voidptr aevent); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void exit(); void favorperformancehint(in boolean favorperfoverstarvation, in unsigned long starvationdelay); void getnativeevent(in prboolref arealevent, in voidptrref aevent); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void listentoeventqueue(in nsieventqueue aqueue, in prbool alisten); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void resumenative(); void run(); ...

nsIAppShellService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by: @mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1 as a service: var appshellservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiappshellservice); method overview void closetoplevelwindow(in nsixulwindow awindow); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void createhiddenwindow(in nsiappshell aappshell); native code only!

nsIAppStartup
to use the service: var appstartup = components.classes["@mozilla.org/toolkit/app-startup;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiappstartup); method overview void createhiddenwindow(); boolean createstartupstate(in long awindowwidth, in long awindowheight); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void destroyhiddenwindow(); void doprofilestartup(in nsicmdlineservice acmdlineservice, in boolean caninteract); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void ensure1window(in nsicmdlineservice acmdlineservice); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 ...

nsIApplicationCache
method overview void activate(); void addnamespaces(in nsiarray namespaces); void discard(); void gatherentries(in pruint32 typebits, out unsigned long count, [array, size_is(count)] out string keys); nsiapplicationcachenamespace getmatchingnamespace(in acstring key); unsigned long gettypes(in acstring key); void initashandle(in acstring groupid, in acstring clientid); void markentry(in acstrin...

nsIApplicationCacheChannel
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsiapplicationcachecontainer last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void markofflinecacheentryasforeign(); attributes attribute type description chooseapplicationcache boolean when true, the channel will choose an application cache if one was not explicitly provided and none is available from the notification callbacks.

nsIApplicationCacheNamespace
method overview void init(in unsigned long itemtype, in acstring namespacespec, in acstring data); attributes attribute type description data acstring data associated with the namespace, such as a fallback.

nsIApplicationCacheService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void cacheopportunistically(in nsiapplicationcache cache, in acstring key); nsiapplicationcache chooseapplicationcache(in acstring key); nsiapplicationcache createapplicationcache(in acstring group); void deactivategroup(in acstring group); nsiapplicationcache getactivecache(in acstring group); nsiapplicationcache getapplicationcache(in acstring clientid); void getgroups([optional] out unsigned long count, [array, size_is(count), retv...

nsIApplicationUpdateService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void adddownloadlistener(in nsirequestobserver listener); astring downloadupdate(in nsiupdate update, in boolean background); void pausedownload(); void removedownloadlistener(in nsirequestobserver listener); nsiupdate selectupdate([array, size_is(updatecount)] in nsiupdate updates, in unsigned long updatecount); attributes attribute type description backgroundchecker nsiupdate...

nsIArray
method overview nsisimpleenumerator enumerate(); unsigned long indexof(in unsigned long startindex, in nsisupports element); void queryelementat(in unsigned long index, in nsiidref uuid, [iid_is(uuid), retval] out nsqiresult result); attributes attribute type description length unsigned long the number of elements in the array.

nsIAsyncInputStream
method overview void asyncwait(in nsiinputstreamcallback acallback, in unsigned long aflags, in unsigned long arequestedcount, in nsieventtarget aeventtarget); void closewithstatus(in nsresult astatus); constants constant value description wait_closure_only (1<<0) if passed to asyncwait(), this flag overrides the default behavior, causing the oninputstreamready notification to be suppressed until th...

nsIAsyncOutputStream
method overview void asyncwait(in nsioutputstreamcallback acallback, in unsigned long aflags, in unsigned long arequestedcount, in nsieventtarget aeventtarget); void closewithstatus(in nsresult reason); constants constant value description wait_closure_only (1<<0) if passed to asyncwait(), this flag overrides the default behavior, causing the onoutputstreamready notification to be suppressed until t...

nsIAsyncStreamCopier
inherits from: nsirequest last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview void asynccopy(in nsirequestobserver aobserver, in nsisupports aobservercontext); void init(in nsiinputstream asource, in nsioutputstream asink, in nsieventtarget atarget, in boolean asourcebuffered, in boolean asinkbuffered, in unsigned long achunksize, in boolean aclosesource, in boolean aclosesink); methods asynccopy() starts the copy operation.

nsIAsyncVerifyRedirectCallback
method overview void onredirectverifycallback(in nsresult result); methods onredirectverifycallback() implements the asynchronous callback passed to nsichanneleventsink.asynconchannelredirect().

nsIAuthModule
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void getnexttoken([const] in voidptr aintoken, in unsigned long aintokenlength, out voidptr aouttoken, out unsigned long aouttokenlength); void init(in string aservicename, in unsigned long aserviceflags, in wstring adomain, in wstring ausername, in wstring apassword); void unwrap([const] in voidptr aintoken, in unsigned long aintokenlength, out voidptr aouttoken, out unsigned long aouttokenlength); void wrap([const] in voidptr aintoken, in unsigned long aintokenlength, in boolean confidential, out voidptr aouttoken, out unsigned...

nsIAuthPrompt
to create an instance, use: var authprompt = components.classes["@mozilla.org/login-manager/prompter;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiauthprompt); method overview boolean prompt(in wstring dialogtitle, in wstring text, in wstring passwordrealm, in pruint32 savepassword, in wstring defaulttext, out wstring result); boolean promptpassword(in wstring dialogtitle, in wstring text, in wstring passwordrealm, in pruint32 savepassword, inout wstring pwd); boolean promptusernameandpassword(in wstring dialogtitle, in wstring text, in wstr...

nsIAuthPrompt2
to create an instance, use: var authprompt2 = components.classes["@mozilla.org/login-manager/prompter;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiauthprompt2); method overview nsicancelable asyncpromptauth(in nsichannel achannel, in nsiauthpromptcallback acallback, in nsisupports acontext, in pruint32 level, in nsiauthinformation authinfo); boolean promptauth(in nsichannel achannel, in pruint32 level, in nsiauthinformation authinfo); constants constant value description level_none 0 the password will be sent unen...

nsIAuthPromptAdapterFactory
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview nsiauthprompt2 createadapter(in nsiauthprompt aprompt); methods createadapter() wrap an object implementing nsiauthprompt so that it's usable via nsiauthprompt2.

nsIAuthPromptCallback
method overview void onauthavailable(in nsisupports acontext, in nsiauthinformation aauthinfo); void onauthcancelled(in nsisupports acontext, in boolean usercancel); methods onauthavailable() authentication information is available.

nsIAuthPromptProvider
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void getauthprompt(in pruint32 apromptreason, in nsiidref iid, [iid_is(iid),retval] out nsqiresult result); constants constant value description prompt_normal 0 normal (non-proxy) prompt request.

nsIAuthPromptWrapper
last changed in gecko 1.7 inherits from: nsiauthprompt method overview void setpromptdialogs(in nsiprompt dialogs); methods setpromptdialogs() this method sets a prompt dialog using the given dialog implementation which will be used to display the prompts.

nsIAutoCompleteInput
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview acstring getsearchat(in unsigned long index); void onsearchbegin(); void onsearchcomplete(); boolean ontextentered(); boolean ontextreverted(); void selecttextrange(in long startindex, in long endindex); attributes attribute type description completedefaultindex boolean if a search result has its defaultindex set, this will optionally try to complete the text in the...

nsIAutoCompleteListener
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void onautocomplete(in nsiautocompleteresults result, in autocompletestatus status); void onstatus(in wstring statustext); attributes attribute type description param nsisupports private parameter used by the autocomplete widget.

nsIAutoCompleteObserver
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void onsearchresult(in nsiautocompletesearch search, in nsiautocompleteresult result); void onupdatesearchresult(in nsiautocompletesearch search, in nsiautocompleteresult result); methods onsearchresult() called when a search is complete and the results are ready.

nsIAutoCompleteSearch
method overview void startsearch(in astring searchstring, in astring searchparam, in nsiautocompleteresult previousresult, in nsiautocompleteobserver listener); void stopsearch(); methods startsearch() search for a given string and notify a listener (either synchronously or asynchronously) of the result.

nsIBadCertListener2
method overview boolean notifycertproblem(in nsiinterfacerequestor socketinfo, in nsisslstatus status, in autf8string targetsite); methods notifycertproblem() called in case of a broken ssl status.

nsIBidiKeyboard
a user is a bidirectional writer if they have keyboard layouts in both left-to-right and right-to-left directions (that is users who use arabic, iranian (persian), or israel (hebrew) keyboard layout, beside an us (english) layout.) inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) method overview boolean islangrtl(); void setlangfrombidilevel(in pruint8 alevel); attributes attribute type description havebidikeyboards boolean indicates whether or not the system has at least one keyboard for each direction (left-to-right and right-to-left) installed.

nsIBinaryInputStream
inherits from: nsiinputstream last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview pruint8 read8(); pruint16 read16(); pruint32 read32(); pruint64 read64(); unsigned long readarraybuffer(in pruint32 alength, in jsval aarraybuffer); prbool readboolean(); void readbytearray(in pruint32 alength, [array, size_is(alength), retval] out pruint8 abytes); void readbytes(in pruint32 alength, [size_is(alength), retva...

nsIBinaryOutputStream
inherits from: nsioutputstream last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void setoutputstream(in nsioutputstream aoutputstream); void write8(in pruint8 abyte); void write16(in pruint16 a16); void write32(in pruint32 a32); void write64(in pruint64 a64); void writeboolean(in prbool aboolean); void writebytearray([array, size_is(alength)] in pruint8 abytes, in pruint32 alength); void writebytes(alength)] in string astring, in pruint32 alength); void wr...

nsIBlocklistPrompt
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void prompt([array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant aaddons, [optional] in pruint32 acount); methods prompt() prompt the user about newly blocked addons.

nsIBlocklistService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 29 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26) method overview unsigned long getaddonblockliststate(in jsval addon, [optional] in astring appversion, [optional] in astring toolkitversion); unsigned long getpluginblockliststate(in nsiplugintag plugin, [optional] in astring appversion, [optional] in astring toolkitversion); boolean isaddonblocklisted(in jsval addon, [optional] in astring appversion, [optional] in astring toolkitversion); constants constant value description state_not_blocked 0 state_softblocked 1 ...

nsIBoxObject
method overview wstring getlookandfeelmetric(in wstring propertyname); obsolete since gecko 1.9 wstring getproperty(in wstring propertyname); nsisupports getpropertyassupports(in wstring propertyname); void removeproperty(in wstring propertyname); void setproperty(in wstring propertyname, in wstring propertyvalue); void setpropertyassupports(in wstring propertyname, in nsisupports value); attributes attribute type description element nsidomelement read only.

nsIBrowserHistory
to use this service, use: var browserhistory = components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsibrowserhistory); method overview void addpagewithdetails(in nsiuri auri, in wstring atitle, in long long alastvisited); obsolete since gecko 15.0 void markpageasfollowedlink(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 void markpageastyped(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 void registeropenpage(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 9.0 void removeallpages(); void re...

nsIBrowserSearchService
method overview void addengine(in astring engineurl, in long datatype, in astring iconurl, in boolean confirm, [optional] in nsisearchinstallcallback callback); void addenginewithdetails(in astring name, in astring iconurl, in astring alias, in astring description, in astring method, in astring url); void getdefaultengines([optional] out unsigned long enginecount, [...

nsICRLManager
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview wstring computenextautoupdatetime(in nsicrlinfo info, in unsigned long autoupdatetype, in double noofdays); void deletecrl(in unsigned long crlindex); nsiarray getcrls(); void importcrl([array, size_is(length)] in octet data, in unsigned long length, in nsiuri uri, in unsigned long type, in boolean dosilentdownload, in wstring crlkey); void reschedulecrlautoupdate(); boolean updatecrlfromurl(in wstring url, in wstring key); constants constant value description type_autoupdate_time_based 1 type_autoupdate_freq_based 2 methods computenextautoupdatetime() wstring computenextautoupdatetime( in ...

nsICacheEntryDescriptor
inherits from: nsicacheentryinfo last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void close(); void doom(); void doomandfailpendingrequests(in nsresult status); string getmetadataelement(in string key); void markvalid(); nsiinputstream openinputstream(in unsigned long offset); nsioutputstream openoutputstream(in unsigned long offset); void setdatasize(in unsigned long size); void setexpirationtime(in pruint32 expirationtime); void setmetadataelement(in string key, in string value); void visitmetadata(in nsicachemetadatavisitor visitor); attributes attribute type description accessgranted nscacheaccessmode get the...

nsICacheEntryInfo
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview boolean isstreambased(); attributes attribute type description clientid string get the client id associated with this cache entry.

nsICacheListener
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14 (firefox 14 / thunderbird 14 / seamonkey 2.11) method overview void oncacheentryavailable(in nsicacheentrydescriptor descriptor, in nscacheaccessmode accessgranted, in nsresult status); void oncacheentrydoomed(in nsresult status); methods oncacheentryavailable() this method is called when the requested access (or appropriate subset) is acquired.

nsICacheMetaDataVisitor
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview boolean visitmetadataelement(in string key, in string value); methods visitmetadataelement() this method is called for each key/value pair in the meta data for a cache entry.

nsICacheService
method overview nsicachesession createsession(in string clientid, in nscachestoragepolicy storagepolicy, in boolean streambased); acstring createtemporaryclientid(in nscachestoragepolicy storagepolicy); obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 void evictentries(in nscachestoragepolicy storagepolicy); void init(); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void shutdown(); obsolete since gecko 1.

nsICacheSession
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14 (firefox 14 / thunderbird 14 / seamonkey 2.11) method overview void asyncopencacheentry(in acstring key, in nscacheaccessmode accessrequested, in nsicachelistener listener, [optional] in boolean nowait); void evictentries(); prbool isstorageenabled(); nsicacheentrydescriptor opencacheentry(in acstring key, in nscacheaccessmode accessrequested, in boolean blockingmode); void doomentry(in acstring key, in nsicachelistener listener); attributes attribute type description doomentrie...

nsICacheVisitor
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview boolean visitdevice(in string deviceid, in nsicachedeviceinfo deviceinfo); boolean visitentry(in string deviceid, in nsicacheentryinfo entryinfo); methods visitdevice() this method is called to provide information about a cache device.

nsICachingChannel
method overview boolean isfromcache(); obsolete since gecko 2.0 attributes attribute type description cacheasfile boolean specifies whether or not the data should be cached to a file.

nsICancelable
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void cancel(in nsresult areason); methods cancel() call this method to request that this object abort whatever operation it may be performing.

nsICategoryManager
to use this service, use: var categorymanager = components.classes["@mozilla.org/categorymanager;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsicategorymanager); method overview string addcategoryentry(in string acategory, in string aentry, in string avalue, in boolean apersist, in boolean areplace); void deletecategory(in string acategory); void deletecategoryentry(in string acategory, in string aentry, in boolean apersist); nsisimpleenumerator enumeratecategories(); nsisimpleenumerator enumeratecategory(in string acategory)...

nsIChannel
method overview void asyncopen(in nsistreamlistener alistener, in nsisupports acontext); nsiinputstream open(); attributes attribute type description contentcharset acstring the character set of the channel's content if available and if applicable.

nsIChannelEventSink
method overview void asynconchannelredirect(in nsichannel oldchannel, in nsichannel newchannel, in unsigned long flags, in nsiasyncverifyredirectcallback callback); void onchannelredirect(in nsichannel oldchannel, in nsichannel newchannel, in unsigned long flags); obsolete since gecko 2.0 constants constant value description redirect_temporary 1 << 0 th...

nsICharsetResolver
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void notifyresolvedcharset(in acstring charset, in nsisupports closure); acstring requestcharset(in nsiwebnavigation awebnavigation, in nsichannel achannel, out boolean awantcharset, out nsisupports aclosure); methods notifyresolvedcharset() some implementations may request that they be notified when the charset is actually detected.

nsIChromeFrameMessageManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsiframemessagemanager last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void loadframescript(in astring aurl, in boolean aallowdelayedload); void removedelayedframescript(in astring aurl); methods loadframescript() loads a script into the remote frame.

nsIChromeRegistry
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1 as a service: var chromeregistry = components.classes["@mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsichromeregistry); method overview void canonify(in nsiuri achromeurl); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void checkfornewchrome(); nsiuri convertchromeurl(in nsiuri achromeurl); boolean wrappersenabled(in nsiuri auri); violates the xpcom interface guidelines constants constant value description none 0 partial 1 full 2 methods...

nsIClassInfo
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsisupports gethelperforlanguage(in pruint32 language); void getinterfaces(out pruint32 count, [array, size_is(count), retval] out nsiidptr array); attributes attribute type description classdescription string a human readable string naming the class, or null.

nsIClipboard
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 30.0 (firefox 30.0 / thunderbird 30.0 / seamonkey 2.27) method overview void emptyclipboard(in long awhichclipboard); void forcedatatoclipboard(in long awhichclipboard); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void getdata(in nsitransferable atransferable, in long awhichclipboard); boolean hasdatamatchingflavors([array, size_is(alength)] in string aflavorlist, in unsigned long alength, in long awhichclipboard); void setdata(in nsitransferable atransferable, in nsiclipboardowner anowner, in long awhichclipboard); boolean supportssele...

nsIClipboardCommands
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview boolean cancopyimagecontents(); boolean cancopyimagelocation(); boolean cancopylinklocation(); boolean cancopyselection(); boolean cancutselection(); boolean canpaste(); void copyimagecontents(); void copyimagelocation(); void copylinklocation(); void copyselection(); void cutselection(); void paste(); void selectall(); void selectnone(); methods cancopyimagecontents() returns whether we can copy an i...

nsIClipboardDragDropHookList
method overview void addclipboarddragdrophooks(in nsiclipboarddragdrophooks ahooks); nsisimpleenumerator gethookenumerator(); void removeclipboarddragdrophooks(in nsiclipboarddragdrophooks ahooks); methods addclipboarddragdrophooks() this method adds a hook to the list.

nsIClipboardDragDropHooks
method overview boolean allowdrop(in nsidomevent event, in nsidragsession session); boolean allowstartdrag(in nsidomevent event); boolean oncopyordrag(in nsidomevent aevent, in nsitransferable trans); boolean onpasteordrop(in nsidomevent event, in nsitransferable trans); methods allowdrop() tells gecko whether a drop is allowed on this content area.

nsIClipboardHelper
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void copystring(in astring astring); void copystringtoclipboard(in astring astring, in long aclipboardid); methods copystring() this method copies string to (default) clipboard.

nsIClipboardOwner
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void losingownership(in nsitransferable atransferable); methods losingownership() this method notifies the owner of the clipboard transferable that the transferable is being removed from the clipboard.

nsICollection
inherits from: nsiserializable last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void appendelement(in nsisupports item); void clear(); pruint32 count(); nsienumerator enumerate(); nsisupports getelementat(in pruint32 index); void queryelementat(in pruint32 index, in nsiidref uuid, [iid_is(uuid),retval] out nsqiresult result); void removeelement(in nsisupports item); void setelementat(in pruint32 index, in nsisupports item); methods appendelement() appends a new item to the collection.

nsICommandController
to create an instance, use: var commandcontroller = components.classes["@mozilla.org/embedcomp/base-command-controller;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsicommandcontroller); method overview void docommandwithparams(in string command, in nsicommandparams acommandparams); void getcommandstatewithparams( in string command, in nsicommandparams acommandparams); methods docommandwithparams() executes the specified command with a set of parameters contained in an nsicommandparams object.

nsICommandLine
method overview long findflag(in astring aflag, in boolean acasesensitive); astring getargument(in long aindex); boolean handleflag(in astring aflag, in boolean acasesensitive); astring handleflagwithparam(in astring aflag, in boolean acasesensitive); void removearguments(in long astart, in long aend); nsifile resolvefile(in astring aargument); nsiuri resolveuri(in astring aargument); attribute...

nsICommandLineHandler
@mozilla.org/venkman/clh;1 command-line-handler c-extensions @mozilla.org/extension-manager/clh;1 command-line-handler m-edit @mozilla.org/composer/clh;1 command-line-handler m-irc @mozilla.org/chatzilla/clh;1 command-line-handler y-final @mozilla.org/browser/clh-final;1 method overview void handle(in nsicommandline acommandline); attributes attribute type description helpinfo autf8string when the application is launched with the -help argument, this attribute is retrieved and displayed to the user (on stdout).

nsICommandLineRunner
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsicommandline method overview void init(in long argc, in nscharptrarray argv, in nsifile workingdir, in unsigned long state); void run(); void setwindowcontext(in nsidomwindow awindow); attributes attribute type description helptext autf8string process and combine the help text provided by each command-line handler.

nsIComponentManager
66 introduced gecko 0.7 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview void addbootstrappedmanifestlocation(in nsilocalfile alocation); void createinstance(in nscidref aclass, in nsisupports adelegate, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); void createinstancebycontractid(in string acontractid, in nsisupports adelegate, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); void getclassobject(in nscidref aclass, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); ...

nsIComponentRegistrar
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.0 method overview void autoregister(in nsifile aspec); void autounregister(in nsifile aspec); string cidtocontractid(in nscidref aclass); nscidptr contractidtocid(in string acontractid); nsisimpleenumerator enumeratecids(); nsisimpleenumerator enumeratecontractids(); boolean iscidregistered(in nscidref aclass); boolean iscontractidregistered(in string acontractid); void registerfactory(in nscidref aclass, in string aclassname, in string acontractid, in nsifactory afactory); void registerfactorylocation(in nscidref aclass, in string aclassname, in string acontractid, in nsifile ...

nsICompositionStringSynthesizer
ring domwindowutils.sendcompositionevent("compositionend", "foo-bar-buzz", ""); starting gecko 36, you can do it simpler: domwindowutils.sendcompositionevent("compositioncommitasis", "", ""); if you need to commit composition with different commit string gecko 36 or later, you can use "compositioncommit": domwindowutils.sendcompositionevent("compositioncommit", "foo-bar-buzz", ""); method overview void appendclause(in unsigned long alength, in unsigned long aattribute); boolean dispatchevent(); void setcaret(in unsigned long aoffset, in unsigned long alength); void setstring(in astring astring); constants constant value description attr_raw_input 0x02 a clause attribute.

nsIConsoleListener
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void observe(in nsiconsolemessage amessage); methods observe() called by the nsiconsoleservice when a message is posted to the console.

nsIConsoleService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 19 (firefox 19 / thunderbird 19 / seamonkey 2.16) implemented by: @mozilla.org/consoleservice;1 as a service: var consoleservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/consoleservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiconsoleservice); method overview void getmessagearray([array, size_is(count)] out nsiconsolemessage messages, out uint32_t count);obsolete since gecko 19 void getmessagearray([optional] out uint32_t count, [retval, array, size_is(count)] out nsiconsolemessage messages); void logmessage(in nsiconsolemessage message); void logstringmessage(in wstring message); void registerlistener(in nsico...

nsIContentPrefCallback2
dom/interfaces/base/nsicontentprefservice2.idlscriptable callback used by nsicontentprefservice2 methods 1.0 66 introduced gecko 20.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 20.0 (firefox 20.0 / thunderbird 20.0 / seamonkey 2.17) method overview void handlecompletion(in unsigned short reason); void handleerror(in nsresult error); void handleresult(in nsicontentpref pref); constants constant value description complete_ok 0 complete_error 1 methods handlecompletion() called when the method finishes.

nsIContentPrefObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void oncontentprefremoved(in astring agroup, in astring aname); void oncontentprefset(in astring agroup, in astring aname, in nsivariant avalue); methods oncontentprefremoved() called when a content preference is removed.

nsIContentPrefService
to create an instance, use: var contentprefservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/content-pref/service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsicontentprefservice); method overview void addobserver(in astring aname, in nsicontentprefobserver aobserver); nsivariant getpref(in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname, [optional] in nsicontentprefcallback acallback); nsipropertybag2 getprefs(in nsivariant agroup); nsipropertybag2 getprefsbyname(in astring aname); boolean haspref(in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname); void rem...

nsIContentPrefService2
method overview void addobserverforname(in astring name, in nsicontentprefobserver observer); void getbydomainandname(in astring domain, in astring name, in nsiloadcontext context, in nsicontentprefcallback2 callback); void getbysubdomainandname(in astring domain, in astring name, in nsiloadcontext context, in nsicontentprefcallback2 callback); nsico...

nsIContentSecurityPolicy
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean permitsancestry(in nsidocshell docshell); void refinepolicy(in astring policystring, in nsiuri selfuri); void scanrequestdata(in nsihttpchannel achannel); void sendreports(in astring blockeduri, in astring violateddirective); short shouldload(in unsigned long acontenttype, in nsiuri acontentlocation, in nsiuri arequestorigin, in nsisupports acontext, in acstring amimetypeguess, in nsisupports aextra); short shouldprocess(in unsigned long acontenttype, in nsiuri aco...

nsIContentSniffer
method overview acstring getmimetypefromcontent(in nsirequest arequest, [const,array,size_is(alength)] in octet adata, in unsigned long alength); methods getmimetypefromcontent() given a chunk of data, determines a mime type.

nsIContentView
method overview void scrollby(in float dxpx, in float dypx); void scrollto(in float xpx, in float ypx); void setscale(in float xscale, in float yscale); attributes attribute type description contentheight float read only.

nsIContentViewManager
method overview void getcontentviewsin(in float axpx, in float aypx, in float atopsize, in float arightsize, in float abottomsize, in float aleftsize, [optional] out unsigned long alength, [retval, array, size_is(alength)] out nsicontentview aresult); attributes attribute type description rootcontentview nsicontentview the root content view.

nsIContentViewer
to create an instance, use: var contentviewer = components.classes["@mozilla.org/????????????????????????????"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsicontentviewer); method overview void clearhistoryentry(); void close(in nsishentry historyentry); void destroy(); [noscript,notxpcom,nostdcall] nsiviewptr findcontainerview(); void getbounds(in nsintrectref abounds); native code only!

nsIController
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void docommand(in string command); boolean iscommandenabled(in string command); void onevent(in string eventname); boolean supportscommand(in string command); methods docommand() when this method is called, your implementation should execute the command with the specified name.

nsIControllers
to create an instance, use: var controllers = components.classes["@mozilla.org/xul/xul-controllers;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsicontrollers); method overview void appendcontroller(in nsicontroller controller); nsicontroller getcontrollerat(in unsigned long index); nsicontroller getcontrollerbyid(in unsigned long controllerid); unsigned long getcontrollercount(); nsicontroller getcontrollerforcommand(in string command); unsigned long getcontrollerid(in nsicontroller controller); void insertcontrollerat(in unsigned long index, in nsicontr...

nsIConverterInputStream
to create an instance, use: var converterinputstream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/converter-input-stream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiconverterinputstream); method overview void init(in nsiinputstream astream, in string acharset, in long abuffersize, in prunichar areplacementchar); constants constant value description default_replacement_character 0xfffd default replacement character value.

nsIConverterOutputStream
to create an instance, use: var converteroutputstream = components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/converter-output-stream;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsiconverteroutputstream); method overview void init(in nsioutputstream aoutstream, in string acharset, in unsigned long abuffersize, in prunichar areplacementcharacter); methods init() initialize this stream.

nsICookieConsent
last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void getconsent(); methods getconsent() gives a decision on what should be done with a cookie, based on a site's p3p policy and the user's preferences.

nsICookieManager
it is implemented by the @mozilla.org/cookiemanager;1 component, but should generally be accessed via services.cookies method overview void remove(in autf8string ahost, in acstring aname, in autf8string apath, in boolean ablocked, in jsval aoriginattributes); void removeall(); attributes attribute type description enumerator nsisimpleenumerator called to enumerate through each cookie in the cookie list.

nsICookieManager2
to create an object implementing this interface: components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/services.jsm"); var cookieservice = services.cookies; method overview void add(in autf8string ahost, in autf8string apath, in acstring aname, in acstring avalue, in boolean aissecure, in boolean aishttponly, in boolean aissession, in print64 aexpiry); boolean cookieexists(in nsicookie2 acookie); unsigned long countcookiesfromhost(in autf8string ahost); boolean findmatchingcookie(in nsicookie2 acookie, out unsigned long acountf...

nsICookiePermission
last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) inherits from: nsisupports method overview nscookieaccess canaccess(in nsiuri auri, in nsichannel achannel); boolean cansetcookie(in nsiuri auri, in nsichannel achannel, in nsicookie2 acookie, inout boolean aissession, inout print64 aexpiry); nsiuri getoriginatinguri(in nsichannel achannel); void setaccess(in nsiuri auri, in nscookieaccess aaccess); constants constant value description access_default 0 nscookieaccess's access default value access_allow 1 nscookieaccess's access allow value access_deny 2 nscookieaccess's access deny value access_session 8 addition...

nsICookiePromptService
last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) inherits from: nsisupports method overview long cookiedialog(in nsidomwindow parent, in nsicookie cookie, in acstring hostname, in long cookiesfromhost, in boolean changingcookie, out boolean rememberdecision); constants constant value description deny_cookie 0 holds the value for a denying the cookie.

nsICookieService
method overview string getcookiestring(in nsiuri auri, in nsichannel achannel); string getcookiestringfromhttp(in nsiuri auri, in nsiuri afirsturi, in nsichannel achannel); void setcookiestring(in nsiuri auri, in nsiprompt aprompt, in string acookie, in nsichannel achannel); void setcookiestringfromhttp(in nsiuri auri, in nsiuri afirsturi, in nsiprompt aprompt, in string acoo...