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1 Archive of obsolete content Archive, Landing
Here at MDN, we try to avoid outright deleting content that might be useful to people targeting legacy platforms, operating systems, and browsers. Perhaps your target audience is people that are using older hardware, for example, and can't upgrade to the latest and greatest browsers. Or for "reasons," your company is required to use very old software and you need to build Web content that runs on that software. Or perhaps you're just curious about the history of an obsolete feature or API, and how it worked.
2 .htaccess ( hypertext access ) 301 redirect, Cache control, Custom Error pages, HTACCESS, Permanent Redirect, Redirect
File Accessing : htaccess files can be opened using any text editor, like Windows Notepad, Vin, Sublime text editor or any other. Syntax highliting support for .htaccess files less.
3 2015 MDN Fellowship Program 2015, Archive, fellowship
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4 API API, Archive
Archived documentation about obsolete web standards APIs.
5 Navigator API, Navigator
Features that used to hang off the Navigator interface, but have since been removed.
6 Navigator.mozNotification API, Deprecated, Mobile, Non-standard, Property, Reference
Provides support for creating notification objects, which are used to display desktop notification alerts to the user. Currently, these are only supported on Firefox Mobile and Firefox OS. See Displaying notifications for an example.
7 Window: deviceproximity event Sensors, events
The deviceproximity event is fired when fresh data is available from a proximity sensor.
8 Window: userproximity event Sensors, events
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9 Add-ons Add-ons, Archive, Extensions
Archived add-ons documentation.
10 Add-on SDK Add-on SDK, Jetpack
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11 Builder
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12 Guides Add-on SDK
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13 Content Scripts Add-on SDK
Many add-ons need to access and modify the content of web pages. But the main add-on code doesn't get direct access to web content. Instead, SDK add-ons need to factor the code that gets access to web content into separate scripts that are called content scripts. This page describes how to develop and implement content scripts.
14 Communicating With Other Scripts
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15 Communicating using "port"
To enable add-on scripts and content scripts to communicate with each other, each end of the conversation has access to a port object.
16 Communicating using "postMessage" Add-on SDK
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17 Cross-domain Content Scripts Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Extensions
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18 Interacting with page scripts Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Extensions
By default, content scripts loaded by add-ons and scripts loaded by web pages are insulated from each other:
19 Loading Content Scripts
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20 Reddit Example Advanced, CodingScripting, JavaScript, Mobile
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21 port
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22 self
This article documents the self object that is available as a global in content scripts. self provides:
23 Contributor's Guide
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24 Classes and Inheritance Add-on SDK
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25 Content Processes Add-on SDK
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26 Getting Started Add-on SDK
Learn how to contribute to the Add-on SDK.
27 Modules Add-ons, Extensions
A module is a self-contained unit of code, which is usually stored in a file, and has a well defined interface. The use of modules greatly improves the maintainability of code, by splitting it up into independent components, and enforcing logical boundaries between them. Unfortunately, JavaScript does not yet have native support for modules: it has to rely on the host application to provide it with functionality such as loading subscripts, and exporting/ importing names. We will show how to do each of these things using the built-in Components object provided by Xulrunner application such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
28 Private Properties
People have come up with several ways to emulate private properties using existing language features. This article discusses two common techniques: one using prefixes, the other closures.
29 Firefox Compatibility Add-on SDK
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30 Module structure of the SDK Add-on SDK
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32 Porting the Library Detector Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Example, Extensions, Sample code, Tutorial
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33 Program ID
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34 SDK API Lifecycle
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35 SDK and XUL Comparison
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36 Testing the Add-on SDK Add-on SDK, CFX, JPM, SDK
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37 Two Types of Scripts
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38 Working with Events
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39 XUL Migration Guide
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40 High-Level APIs Add-on SDK
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41 addon-page Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Extensions, Obsolete, Reference
Create a page that does not contain navigational elements.
42 base64 Add-on SDK
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43 clipboard Add-on SDK
Interact with the system clipboard, setting and getting its contents.
44 context-menu Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox, SDK
Adds items, submenus, and menu separators to the page's context menu.
45 hotkeys Add-on SDK
Assign hotkey combinations to functions in your add-on.
46 indexed-db Add-on SDK
Exposes the IndexedDB API to add-ons.
47 l10n Add-on SDK
Localize strings appearing in the add-on's JavaScript code.
48 notifications Add-on SDK, Notifications
Display transient, toaster-style desktop messages to the user.
49 page-mod Add-on SDK
Run scripts in the context of web pages whose URL matches a given pattern.
50 page-worker Add-on SDK
Create a permanent, invisible page and access its DOM.
51 panel Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Extensions
Creates transient dialogs to implement part of an add-on's user interface.
52 passwords Add-on SDK
Interact with Firefox's Password Manager to add, retrieve and remove stored credentials.
53 private-browsing Add-on SDK
Check whether a given object is private, so an add-on can respect private browsing
54 querystring Add-on SDK
Utility functions for working with query strings.
55 request NeedsUpdate, SDK, add-on
Make simple network requests.
56 selection Add-on SDK
Get and set text and HTML selections in the current web page.
57 self Add-on SDK
Access data that is bundled with the add-on, and add-on metadata.
58 simple-prefs Add-on SDK
Store preferences across application restarts.
59 simple-storage Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Reference
Lets an add-on store data so that it's retained across Firefox restarts.
60 system Add-on SDK
Query the add-on's environment and access arguments passed to it.
61 tabs Add-on SDK
Open, manipulate, and access tabs, and receive tab events.
62 timers Add-on SDK
Set one-off and periodic timers.
63 ui Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Extensions, Reference
Provides access to button, toolbar, and sidebar UI objects.
64 url Add-on SDK
Construct, validate, and parse URLs.
66 widget Add-on SDK
Create a simple user interface for an add-on in Firefox's add-on bar.
67 windows Add-on SDK
Enumerate and examine open browser windows, open new windows, and listen for window events.
68 Low-Level APIs
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69 /loader
Create CommonJS module loaders.
70 chrome
The chrome module gives an Add-on SDK add-on access to the Components object, which in turn gives it access to a large set of privileged low-level Firefox APIs.
71 console/plain-text
Constructor for a console instance.
72 console/traceback
Functionality similar to Python's traceback module.
73 content/content
Re-exports three objects from three other modules: Loader, Worker, and Symbiont.
74 content/loader
Provides one of the building blocks for those modules that use content scripts to interact with web content, such as panel and page-mod.
75 content/mod
Provides functions to modify a page content.
76 content/symbiont
Used by SDK modules that can load web content and attach content scripts to it.
77 content/worker
Used in the internal implementation of SDK modules which use content scripts to interact with web content.
78 core/heritage
Helper functions for inheritance.
79 core/namespace
Provides an API for creating namespaces for objects, which effectively may be used for creating fields that are not part of objects public API.
80 core/promise
Implementation of promises to make asynchronous programming easier.
81 dev/panel
Enables you to extend the Firefox Developer Tools.
82 event/core
The event/core module allows the creation of APIs to broadcast and subscribe to events.
83 event/target
Create objects that broadcast events.
84 frame/hidden-frame
Creates Firefox frames (i.e. XUL <iframe> elements) that are not displayed to the user.
85 frame/utils
Provides helper functions for working with platform internals like frames and browsers.
86 fs/path
Provides access to the local filesystem with the NodeJS path module API.
87 io/byte-streams
Provides streams for reading and writing bytes.
88 io/file
Provides access to the local filesystem.
89 io/text-streams
Provides streams for reading and writing text.
90 lang/functional
Functional helper methods.
91 lang/type
Functions for working with type detection.
92 loader/cuddlefish Add-on SDK, CFX
The SDK's module loader.
93 loader/sandbox
Create JavaScript sandboxes and execute scripts in them.
94 net/url
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95 net/xhr
Provides access to XMLHttpRequest functionality.
96 places/bookmarks
Create, modify, and retrieve bookmarks.
97 places/favicon
Helper functions for working with favicons.
98 places/history
Access the user's browsing history.
99 platform/xpcom
Implement XPCOM objects, factories, and services.
100 preferences/event-target Add-on SDK
Listen to changes to the Preferences system in Firefox.
101 preferences/service Add-on SDK, Jetpack, SDK
Access the Preferences system in Firefox.
102 remote/child Module, Reference, SDK
Enables an SDK module loaded into a child process to access web content in the child process and communicate with modules in the main process.
103 remote/parent Reference, SDK
Enables you to load modules, and privileged parts of your add-on in general, into child processes.
104 stylesheet/style
Modify styles using stylesheet files or CSS rules.
105 stylesheet/utils
Helper functions for working with stylesheets.
106 system/child_process
An implementation of the node.js child_process API.
107 system/environment
Access, set and clear environment variables.
108 system/events
API for working with the application observer service.
109 system/runtime
Access to information about Firefox's runtime environment.
110 system/unload
Register callbacks that are called when a module is unloaded.
111 system/xul-app
Information about the application on which your add-on is running.
112 tabs/utils
Functions for working with XUL tabs and the XUL tabbrowser object.
113 test/assert Add-on SDK, JPM
Implements the assert interface defined in the CommonJS Unit Testing specification version 1.1.
114 test/harness
Test harness setup and execution.
115 test/httpd
An HTTP server for the Mozilla platform, which can be used in unit tests.
116 test/runner
Sets up unit tests.
117 test/utils
Helper methods used in the CommonJS Unit Testing suite.
118 ui/button/action
Add a button to the Firefox user interface.
119 ui/button/toggle
Add a toggle button to the Firefox user interface.
120 ui/frame
Create HTML iframes, using bundled HTML, CSS and JavaScript, that can be added to a designated area of the Firefox user interface.
121 ui/id
Create UI component IDs.
122 ui/sidebar
Enables you to create sidebars.
123 ui/toolbar
Add a toolbar to the Firefox user interface.
124 util/array
Helper functions for working with arrays.
125 util/collection
A simple list-like class and utilities for using it.
126 util/deprecate
Functions to deprecate code.
127 util/list
Building blocks for composing lists.
128 util/match-pattern
Test strings containing URLs against simple patterns.
129 util/object
Functions for working with objects.
130 util/uuid
Generate or parse UUIDs.
131 window/utils
Functions for working with browser windows.
132 Release notes Add-on SDK
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133 Tools Add-on SDK, CFX, JPM
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134 cfx Add-on SDK, CFX
Enables you to test, run, and package add-ons. cfx is is no longer supported as of Firefox 44 and no longer accepted for add-on submission, jpm should now be used instead.
135 cfx to jpm CFX, JPM, SDK, add-on
A guide to working with jpm if you're already familiar with cfx.
136 console Add-on SDK
Enables your add-on to log error, warning or informational messages.
137 jpm Add-on SDK, JPM
jpm is a command-line tool that enables you to test, run, and package add-ons.
138 jpm-mobile ADB, Add-ons, JPM, Mobile, Testing, travis-ci
The Node-based replacement for cfx --force-mobile. Enables you to run and test add-ons for Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec).
139 jpmignore JPM
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140 package.json CommonJS, JPM, SDK, add-on, package.json
The package.json file contains manifest data for your add-on, providing not only descriptive information about the add-on for presentation in the Add-ons Manager, but other metadata required of add-ons.
141 Tutorials Add-on SDK
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142 Add a Context Menu Item Add-on SDK, Firefox, Guide
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143 Add a Menu Item to Firefox Add-on SDK
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144 Adding a Button to the Toolbar Add-on SDK
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145 Annotator Add-on SDK
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146 Creating annotations Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Beginner, Extensions, Tutorial
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147 Displaying annotations Add-on SDK
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148 Implementing the widget Add-on SDK, Add-ons, Beginner, Extensions, Tutorial
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149 Overview Add-on SDK
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150 Storing annotations Add-on SDK
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151 Chrome Authority
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152 Creating Event Targets
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153 Creating Reusable Modules Add-on SDK
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154 Developing for Firefox Mobile Add-on SDK
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155 Display a Popup Add-on SDK
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156 Getting Started (jpm) Add-on SDK, JPM
In this tutorial we've built and packaged an add-on using three commands:
157 Getting started (cfx)
In this tutorial we've built and packaged an add-on using three commands:
158 List Open Tabs Add-on SDK
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159 Listen for Page Load Add-on SDK
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160 Listening for Load and Unload
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161 Localization Add-on SDK, Localization
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162 Logging Add-on SDK
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163 Modifying Web Pages Based on URL Add-on SDK
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164 Modifying the Page Hosted by a Tab Add-on SDK
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165 Open a Web Page Add-on SDK
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166 Troubleshooting
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167 Unit Testing Add-on SDK, JPM
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168 Using XPCOM without chrome Bookmarks, Chrome, SDK, XPCOM
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169 Using third-party modules (jpm) Addon-SDK, JPM
First, while in the root of your add-on, install the package that contains the modules you want to use:
170 Bootstrapped extensions Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox 4, Gecko 2.0, Guide, Localization
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171 Code snippets Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions
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172 Alerts and Notifications Code snippets
non-modal notification and further interaction with users
173 Autocomplete Code snippets, Form Fill, Satchel
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174 Bookmarks Code snippets, Developing Mozilla, Extensions, Places
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175 Boxes Code snippets
Make the BOX style="display: block" and the wrapping behavior will occur when the box is resized:
176 Canvas code snippets Canvas, Code snippets, Graphics
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177 Cookies Add-ons, Code snippets, Cookies, Extensions
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178 Customizing the download progress bar
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179 Delayed Execution Code snippets
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180 Dialogs and Prompts Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, XUL
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181 Downloading Files Code snippets
To download a file, create an instance of nsIWebBrowserPersist and call its nsIWebBrowserPersist.saveURI() method, passing it a URL to download and an nsIFile instance representing the local file name/path.
182 Drag & Drop Code snippets
183 Embedding SVG Code snippets
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184 Examples and demos from articles
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185 File I/O Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, Files, Streams, Tutorial
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186 Finding window handles Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, XPCOM, js-ctypes
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187 Forms related code snippets Code snippets, Forms
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188 HTML in XUL for rich tooltips Code snippets, Examples, HTML, XUL
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189 HTML to DOM Code snippets, DOM, Guide, HTML, Intermediate, NeedsUpdate
Although you can now natively parse HTML using DOMParser and XMLHttpRequest, this is a new feature that is not yet supported by all browsers in use in the wild. The code snippets on this page will let your site work until these new features are more widely available.
190 IsDefaultNamespace
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191 JS XPCOM Code snippets, JavaScript, XPCOM, about:, nsIAboutModule
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192 JavaScript Debugger Service Code snippets
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193 JavaScript timers JavaScript timers, NeedsBetterPlace
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194 JavaScript Daemons Management DOM, Guide, JavaScript, JavaScript timers, MakeBrowserAgnostic
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195 Label and description Code snippets
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196 LookupNamespaceURI
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197 LookupPrefix
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198 Miscellaneous Add-ons, Code, Code snippets, Extensions, Snippets
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199 Modules
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200 On page load Add-ons, Extensions
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201 Page Loading Code snippets
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202 Post data to window Add-ons, Extensions, NeedsContent
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203 Preferences Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, Guide, Mozilla, Preferences
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204 Progress Listeners Add-ons, Extensions
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205 QuerySelector DOM
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206 Rosetta C, DOM, HTML, HTMLScriptElement, JavaScript, Non-JavaScript, Programming Languages
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207 Running applications Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions
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208 SVG Animation NeedsContent
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209 SVG General Code snippets
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210 Scrollbar Code snippets
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211 Sidebar Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions
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212 StringView
As web applications become more and more powerful, adding features such as audio and video manipulation, access to raw data using WebSockets, and so forth, it has become clear that there are times when it would be helpful for JavaScript code to be able to quickly and easily manipulate raw binary data. In the past, this had to be simulated by treating the raw data as a string and using the charCodeAt() method to read the bytes from the data buffer.
213 Tabbox
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214 Toolbar Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, Toolbars
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215 Tree Code snippets
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216 URI parsing
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217 View Source for XUL Applications
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218 Windows Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, Guide, NeedsContent, NeedsHelp
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219 XML-related code snippets Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions
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220 xml:base support in old browsers Code snippets
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221 XPath
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222 getAttributeNS Code snippets
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223 Common Pitfalls Add-ons, Developing Mozilla, Extensions
There are some common pitfalls that should be avoided when writing either extensions or core Mozilla code. These are the sort of things that super-review should be catching for code that goes into the tree; avoiding these to start with saves super-reviewers a lot of effort.
224 Communication between HTML and your extension Add-ons, Extensions, Web Development
See also Interaction between privileged and non-privileged pages.
225 Creating custom Firefox extensions with the Mozilla build system Add-ons, Build documentation, Developing Mozilla, Extensions, Guide, NeedsContent, XPCOM
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226 Custom about: URLs about:
This page describes how to register a new about: URL for your extension.
227 Default Preferences
A key part of any extension is the default settings that come with it. Mozilla provides a simple way of shipping default settings by allowing default preferences.
228 Deploying a Plugin as an Extension Add-ons, Plugins
One of the new features available in Firefox 1.5 is the ability to place browser plugins in a Firefox extension. This feature is particularly useful for vendors who wish to deploy the plugin even if Firefox is not currently installed, or who want to use the automatic extension update mechanism to update their plugin to a newer version.
229 Developing add-ons Add-ons
This page will help guide you to the information you need in order to create add-ons for Firefox, Thunderbird, or other software based on the Mozilla platform, as well as how to distribute your add-ons.
230 Displaying web content in an extension without security issues Extensions, Security, XMLHttpRequest, XUL
One of the most common security issues with extensions is execution of remote code in privileged context. A typical example is an RSS reader extension that would take the content of the RSS feed (HTML code), format it nicely and insert into the extension window. The issue that is commonly overlooked here is that the RSS feed could contain some malicious JavaScript code and it would then execute with the privileges of the extension — meaning that it would get full access to the browser (cookies, history etc) and to userโ€™s files. These issues can easily be avoided by making use of the existing security mechanisms in the Mozilla codebase. The following article explains these security mechanisms, ideally an extension that needs to display web content (which is always potentially dangerous) will use all of them.
231 Downloading JSON and JavaScript in extensions AJAX, Add-ons, Extensions, JSON, XMLHttpRequest
A common practice found in many extensions is using XMLHttpRequest (or some other mechanism) to download JavaScript or JSON (they are different) from a remote website. Once the content has been downloaded, the extension authors proceed to use eval() to decode the string content into JavaScript objects. This practice is dangerous and will not, in fact, pass an AMO review. So the extension will not be allowed to move out of the AMO sandbox.
233 Enhanced Extension Installation Add-ons, Extensions
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234 Extension Etiquette Add-ons, Extensions, Guide
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235 Extension Library
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236 Extension Packaging Add-ons, Extensions, Guide, Toolkit API
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237 Extension Samples
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238 Extension Theming Guidelines Add-ons, Extensions
This is a set of guidelines on how to control the look and feel of your extension while leaving it open for styling by custom themes.
239 Extension Versioning, Update and Compatibility Add-ons, Extensions
Add-ons should specify their versions using the Toolkit version format. 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. These type of extensions have many advantages for both users and developers compared to the old xpinstall/-style extensions.
241 Firefox addons developer guide
The original document is in Japanese and distributed via the xuldev.org website. So there may be still some reference to the xuldev website (we want to host source code on MDC, not on xuldev), and to Japanese things (like some specific locales, which have been translated to French since non-latin characters are not well supported).
242 Hiding browser chrome Add-ons, Extensions, XUL, XULBrowserWindow
There are times in which an extension may find it useful to hide browser chrome (that is, toolbars, the location bar, and so forth), in order to reduce clutter when presenting a particular user interface. This is done, for example, by the about:addons page.
243 Hotfix Extension
This document has been moved to the Add-ons wiki.
244 How to convert an overlay extension to restartless Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, Firefox, Firefox OS, Guide, Preferences system
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245 Inline options Add-ons, Extensions, XUL
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246 Install Manifests Add-ons, Archive, Extensions, Manifests, Toolkit API
An Install Manifest is the file an Add-on Manager-enabled XUL application (e.g. Firefox or Thunderbird) uses to determine information about an add-on as it is being installed. It contains metadata identifying the add-on, providing information about who created it, where more information can be found about it, which versions of what applications it is compatible with, how it should be updated, and so on.
247 Installing Extensions and Themes From Web Pages Add-ons, Extensions, Obsolete, Themes
There are a variety of ways you can install extensions and themes from web pages, including direct linking to the XPI files and using the InstallTrigger object.
248 Interaction between privileged and non-privileged pages Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions
An easy way to send data from a web page to an extension is by using custom DOM events. In your extension's browser.xul overlay, write code which listens for a custom DOM event. Here we call the event MyExtensionEvent.
249 Jetpack Processes Jetpack
Jetpack processes are created by components that implement the nsIJetpackService interface, and their parent chrome process communicates with them via the nsIJetpack interface.
250 Legacy Add-ons Add-ons, Extensions, Landing
This section contains links to documentation for legacy technology for add-on development, including:
251 Listening to events in Firefox extensions Add-ons, Archive, DOM, Extensions, Gecko, Obsolete, events
Gecko uses events to pass information about interesting things that have occurred along to the parties that may wish to know about them. There are several different categories of events; this article will help you learn about them and direct you to more specific documentation covering each of them. It also provides some use cases that may be of specific interest.
252 Migrating from Internal Linkage to Frozen Linkage XPCOM
Extension code using internal linkage will need to migrate to use frozen linkage because internal linkage will not be available in Firefox 3. This document is a guide to common code patterns that may need to change to work with frozen linkage.
253 Migrating raw components to add-ons
Historically, Firefox has allowed third party contributions to be added to the application's components/ directory, but beginning with Firefox 3.6, this is no longer permitted. Components added in this way are invisible to users and cannot be managed through the Firefox add-ons manager. What's worse, though, is that these components don't have a mechanism for specifying the versions of Firefox with which they are compatible, leading to poor integration and instability as users upgrade their Firefox installations.
254 Multiple item extension packaging Add-ons, Obsolete, Toolkit API, install. rdf
A multiple Item package provides the ability to package multiple installable bundles which can then be downloaded and installed by a user, or provided pre-packaged with an application or by an external program. Every multiple item package must provide an install.rdf file (not old-style install.js!) and has the same requirements as an extension except as noted below.
255 Offering a context menu for form controls Add-ons, Extensions, Mozilla, XUL
Firefox 3 changed the behavior of right-click on form controls to no longer display a context menu by default. This article describes how an extension can override this change in a particular window, enabling context menus to work on form controls.
256 Overlay extensions Add-ons, Extensions, Landing
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257 Firefox addons developer guide Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox, Guide
The Firefox add-ons developer guide was contributed by the Mozilla Japan community; it covers how to go about building Firefox extensions using XPCOM and XUL. These days, we recommend using the Add-on SDK instead, but there are times when you need the additional control offered by a more direct approach.
258 Appendix: What you should know about open-source software licenses
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259 Chapter 1: Introduction to Extensions
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260 Chapter 2: Technologies used in developing extensions
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261 Chapter 3: Introduction to XUL—How to build a more intuitive UI Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox, XUL
learn about XUL, the XML-based User-interface Language, which is one of the building blocks for extensions.
262 Chapter 4: Using XPCOM—Implementing advanced processes
This chapter explains how to use XPCOM to implement advanced processes using only JavaScript.
263 Chapter 5: Let's build a Firefox extension Archive, Obsolete
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264 Chapter 6: Firefox extensions and XUL applications
This chapter discusses tools to assist in developing extensions.
265 License and authors
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266 XUL School Tutorial Add-ons, Extensions, References, Tutorials, XUL
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267 Adding Events and Commands Add-ons, CodingScripting, DOM, Glossary, Guide, JavaScript, XUL, events
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268 Adding Toolbars and Toolbar Buttons Toolbars, XUL
Adding new toolbars to Firefox is easy, but adding them the wrong way is very easy as well.
269 Adding menus and submenus Add-ons, CodingScripting, Macs, XUL, apple
The Hello World example in the previous sections shows the two most common ways to add menus. In this section we'll look into more specialized menus and what you can do with them.
270 Adding sidebars
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271 Adding windows and dialogs
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272 Appendix A: Add-on Performance Add-ons, Extensions, Performance
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273 Appendix B: Install and Uninstall Scripts
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274 Appendix C: Avoiding using eval in Add-ons
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275 Appendix D: Loading Scripts Extensions, XUL
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276 Appendix E: DOM Building and Insertion (HTML & XUL)
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277 Appendix F: Monitoring DOM changes
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278 Connecting to Remote Content
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279 Custom XUL Elements with XBL
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280 Getting Started with Firefox Extensions Extensions
an extension is a small application that adds something new to one or more Mozilla applications. This tutorial focuses on extensions for Firefox, but the same (or very similar) principles apply to creating extensions for other applications such as Thunderbird, Seamonkey, and Flock.
281 Handling Preferences Add-ons, Extensions, XUL, XUL School
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282 Intercepting Page Loads
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283 Introduction
Welcome to the XUL School Tutorial!
284 JavaScript Object Management JavaScript, Object, Tutorials
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285 Local Storage Guide, Storage, XUL
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286 Mozilla Documentation Roadmap
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287 Observer Notifications
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288 Setting Up a Development Environment
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289 The Box Model
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290 The Essentials of an Extension
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291 Useful Mozilla Community Sites
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292 User Notifications and Alerts
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293 XPCOM Objects
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294 Performance best practices in extensions Add-ons, Best practices, Extensions, Guide, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Performance
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295 Search Extension Tutorial (Draft) Extensions, Search, Tutorial
Many add-ons, for monetization or other reasons, change several search-related settings at install time. While this is generally considered acceptable behavior, considerable care must be taken to avoid violating the Mozilla add-on guidelines or creating an adverse user experience.
296 Security best practices in extensions Add-ons, Best practices, Extensions, Guide, Security
This document is intended as a guide for developers to promote best practices in securing your extension. Your goal is to keep your users safe. Some items mentioned are strict guidelines, meaning that if you don't follow them then your add-on will not be approved on Mozilla add-ons. Other items are recommendations. The difference will be clearly flagged.
297 Session store API Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox, Guide, Obsolete
Session store makes it possible for extensions to easily save and restore data across Firefox sessions. There is a simple API that lets extensions access the session store feature.
298 Setting up an extension development environment Add-ons, Extensions, Guide
This article provides suggestions for how to set up your Mozilla application for extension development. These details apply to Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey (version 2.0 and above).
299 Signing an XPI Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions, Guide, NeedsHelp, XPInstall
This article describes how to sign your own Firefox extensions with a code-signing certificate on a Windows platform. It was developed from the linux article So you want to sign your XPI package? by MozDev Group's Pete Collins.
300 Signing an extension Add-ons, Administration, Extensions, Themes, XPInstall, enterprise
This article describes how to digitally sign your extension for Firefox and Thunderbird, with a code signing certificate for Object Signing. The following instructions also apply to a theme and other XPI files.
301 Supporting search suggestions in search plugins Add-ons, OpenSearch, Search, Search plugins
Firefox supports search suggestions in OpenSearch plugins; as the user types in the search bar, Firefox queries the URL specified by the search plugin to fetch live search suggestions.
302 Tabbed browser Add-ons, Code snippets, Extensions
Here you should find a set of useful code snippets to help you work with Firefox's tabbed browser. The comments normally mark where you should be inserting your own code.
303 Techniques
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304 Promises Add-ons, Examples, Snippets, async
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305 Updating addons broken by private browsing changes Add-ons, Reference
After reading this document, contact Josh Matthews with further questions or clarifications, or file a bug if your extension has stopped working due to a change described here and you are having trouble updating it.
306 Using Dependent Libraries In Extension Components Add-ons, Extensions
Extensions with binary components sometimes need to depend on other shared libraries (for example, libraries provided by a third party). The Firefox extension system does not provide automatic support for loading these dependent libraries, but it is possible to load these libraries explicitly using a component stub.
307 Using the Stylesheet Service Add-ons, Extensions
The stylesheet service allows extensions to manage user and UA stylesheets without having to touch userContent.css or userChrome.css files. The API is defined in nsIStyleSheetService.idl.
310 bookmarks.export() API, Add-ons, Bookmarks, Extensions, Method, Non-standard, Reference, WebExtensions, export
Exports bookmarks to an HTML bookmark file.
311 bookmarks.import() API, Add-ons, Bookmarks, Extensions, Method, Non-standard, Reference, WebExtensions, import
Imports bookmarks from an HTML bookmark file.
312 Adding preferences to an extension Add-ons, Extensions, Preferences system, XUL
This article takes the Creating a dynamic status bar extension sample to the next level, adding a popup menu that lets you quickly switch between multiple stocks to watch. It also adds a preference dialog that lets you switch to a stock other than one of the ones included in the popup menu.
313 An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News Web Development, Web Standards
One of the Web's oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout. The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we've come to expect from Web pages.
356 Archived Mozilla and build documentation
These articles are archived, obsolete documents about Mozilla, Gecko, and the process of building Mozilla projects.
357 ActiveX Control for Hosting Netscape Plug-ins in IE Add-ons, NeedsClassification, Plugins
Microsoft has removed support for Netscape plug-ins from IE 5.5 SP 2 and beyond. If you are a plug-in author, you may find this project saves you a lot of work!
358 Archived SpiderMonkey docs Archive
This section contains old SpiderMonkey documentation.
359 File object File, JavaScript, Non-standard, SpiderMonkey
Non-Standard Server-Side Object
360 open
Opens the file, specifying file mode and type.
361 Merging TraceMonkey Repo
These are the steps to merge the TraceMonkey repository to mozilla-central. Between resolving conflicts, finding a good time to land, watching the tree, and marking bugs as fixed, it takes around half a day.
362 SpiderMonkey coding conventions JavaScript, SpiderMonkey
The SpiderMonkey project owners enforce coding conventions pretty strictly during code reviews.
363 Autodial for Windows NT Necko, Outdated_articles
This document is intended to explain how the autodial helper feature implemented for bug 93002 works and why it works that way.
364 Automated testing tips and tricks Developing Mozilla
No summary!
365 Automatic Mozilla Configurator Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
No summary!
366 Enabling quicklaunch for all users Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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367 How Mozilla finds its configuration files Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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368 How Thunderbird and Firefox find their configuration files Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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369 Introduction Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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370 Kill the XUL.mfl file for good Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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371 Locked config settings Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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372 Other Mozilla customization pages Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
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373 Protecting Mozilla's registry.dat file Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
No summary!
374 Automatically Handle Failed Asserts in Debug Builds
As of 2004-12-8, it is now possible to automatically handle failed asserts in debug builds of Mozilla for Windows.
375 BlackConnect Java
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376 Blackwood Java
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377 Bonsai Developing Mozilla, Tools
It is a tool that lets you perform queries on the contents of a CVS archive; you can: get a list of checkins, see what checkins have been made by a given person, or on a given CVS branch, or in a particular time period. It also includes tools for looking at checkin logs (and comments); doing diffs between various versions of a file; and finding out which person is responsible for changing a particular line of code ("cvsblame").
378 Bookmark Keywords User_Documentation
Practically every Web surfer has bookmarks, of course, and power surfers usually have hundreds stuffed into folders within folders. In addition to being handy pointers to useful resources, bookmarks in Mozilla can be used to make the address bar itself a power tool. Searches, lookups, package tracking, and even word definitions can all be retrieved from user-customized bookmarks.
379 Build
This page was auto-generated because a user created a sub-page to this page.
380 Building TransforMiiX standalone NeedsHelp, NeedsRewrite, XSLT
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381 Chromeless Update
[This project may not be active — check Github https://github.com/mozilla/chromeless]
382 Compiling The npruntime Sample Plugin in Visual Studio Add-ons, Plugins
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383 Creating a Firefox sidebar extension Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox, Obsolete
This article describes how to create a registered sidebar for Firefox 2 or greater. See the references section for information on creating extension in earlier browsers.
384 Creating a Microsummary Microsummaries, Obsolete
A microsummary generator is a set of instructions for creating a microsummary from the content of a page. Web pages can reference generators via <link rel="microsummary"> elements in their <head> elements. Generators can also be independently downloaded and installed by users if they include a list of pages to which they apply.
385 Creating a Mozilla Extension Add-ons, Extensions
A Mozilla extension is an installable enhancement to the Mozilla browser that provides additional functionality (for example Linky, which adds an item to the context menu for opening multiple links in a document or selection). This tutorial walks you through the process of building a Mozilla extension that adds an icon to Mozilla's status bar showing the current status of the Mozilla source code (i.e. whether or not the latest version of the code is compiling successfully and passing tests). The extension will access Tinderbox, mozilla.org's webtool for tracking source code status, to get the status of the code.
386 Adding the structure Add-ons, Extensions
The UI for our extension is an icon in the status bar. To implement this UI, we'll add a statusbarpanel element to the statusbar element in the navigator.xul file.
387 Conclusion Add-ons, Extensions
You now have a working Mozilla extension installer! To test it, try installing the extension on a fresh copy of Mozilla by loading the file in your Mozilla browser (this works whether you load it from the web or from your local hard drive via a file:/// URL). Mozilla will automatically detect that the file is an installer and ask you if you want to install the software. Try installing the extension, restarting Mozilla, and see if it works.
388 Enabling the behavior - retrieving tinderbox status Add-ons, Extensions
Our Mozilla extension now exists, but it doesn't do anything. To make it work we have to add JavaScript code that changes its status when the tinderbox status changes. The first step is to write a function that queries the tinderbox server and retrieves the current status.
389 Enabling the behavior - updating the status bar panel Add-ons, Extensions
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390 Enabling the behavior - updating the status periodically Add-ons, Extensions
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391 Finding the code to modify Add-ons, Extensions
Now that we've found the file to edit, we need to find the specific code within that file. Again, the DOM Inspector makes this easy. The "Document - DOM Nodes" pane on the left-hand side of the Inspector window displays a tree representation of the browser window's XUL file. When you select a node in the tree, a red border flashes for several seconds around the visual representation of that node in the browser window.
392 Finding the file to modify Add-ons, Extensions
Now that we have a hackable Mozilla, it's time to find the file we want to hack. Mozilla's UI is divided into three layers: the structure, the style, and the behavior. The structure layer identifies the widgets (menus, buttons, etc.) and their position in the UI relative to each other, the style layer defines how the widgets look (size, color, style, etc.) and their overall position (alignment), and the behavior layer specifies how the widgets behave and how users can use them to accomplish their goals. mention the localization layer
393 Making a Mozilla installation modifiable Add-ons, Extensions
Mozilla's user interface is made up of XUL (described below), XBL (a topic for another tutorial), JavaScript, CSS, and image files. XUL, XBL, JavaScript, and CSS files are all in text format and can be edited in a standard text editor, while image files are in binary GIF, JPG, or PNG format and must be edited with an image editing program.
394 Making it into a dynamic overlay and packaging it up for distribution Add-ons, Extensions
Now that we have a static overlay we're in good shape to create a XPI package that installs our extension as a dynamic overlay. XPIs have a complex structure designed to separate UI layers from each other. To make our XPI we'll start out by creating a directory to hold the files we're going to add to the XPI. Then we'll modify URLs in our files so they point to the right place. After that we'll create a contents.rdf file describing the tinderstatus component for the chrome registry and an install.js script to perform the installation. Finally we'll zip the files into an archive.
395 Making it into a static overlay Add-ons, Extensions
Now that we have a working Mozilla extension that shows tinderbox status, we need to make it distributable to other users. The two ways of doing that are to integrate it into the Mozilla codebase (in which case it is no longer an extension but rather part of the default Mozilla distribution) and to package it into an installer that users can run from within Mozilla to add the extension to their Mozilla installation.
396 Prerequisites Add-ons, Extensions
In order to complete this tutorial you need to have and know how to use the following programs on your computer:
397 Specifying the appearance Add-ons, Extensions
Now that we have defined a panel in which to display an icon, we use CSS to specify which icon to display. For this we have to first create four icons, one for each tinderbox state (none, success, test failed, and busted), then create a set of CSS rules that displays the icon corresponding to the current tinderbox state:
398 Tinderbox Add-ons, Extensions
Tinderbox is a web tool for tracking the status of the Mozilla source code. It consists of a set of client machines that continuously build and test Mozilla and report their results back to a server that makes those results available via a web page. The tool enables mozilla.org to be immediately notified of changes to the code that prevent Mozilla from compiling and running (or compromise performance and footprint) so they can get someone to fix the problem or reverse the changes.
399 Creating a Release Tag Junk
Here are directions for creating a release from a linux system. Note that there are a couple of extra files for Win32 and Macintosh that aren't pulled by the normal script and need to be pulled by hand. The mini-branch is created so you can check in the build scripts with the necessary changes without touching the original branch.
400 Creating a Skin for Firefox/Getting Started Add-ons, Themes
Download the latest version of Firefox and install it. Be sure to install the DOM Inspector extension as well.
401 Creating a Skin for Mozilla Add-ons, NeedsUpdate, Obsolete, Themes
In order to create a skin for mozilla, you will need to know three things. How to edit images, extract zip files, and how to modify CSS. Mozilla uses standard gif, png, and jpeg images for the buttons and CSS to style everything else in the interface.
402 FAQ Add-ons, NeedsUpdate, Obsolete, Themes
Unfortunately, yes. Every time there is a major change made to the interface, either visible or behind the scenes, your skin will have problems. When the Mozilla developers make changes like this, they increase the skin version number. This is the number that is defined in contents.rdf. Test your skin with every major release of Mozilla. If a message appears in the preferences window telling you that it's an old skin, you're going to have to look over the code to see what changed.
403 Getting Started Add-ons, Guide, Themes
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404 In-Depth Add-ons, Themes
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405 Links Add-ons, Themes
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406 contents.rdf Add-ons, Themes
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407 toolbarBindings.xml Add-ons, Themes
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408 Creating a Skin for SeaMonkey 2.x SeaMonkey
You're going to make a theme for SeaMonkey 2, but don't know how? I hope this manual will help you.
409 Getting Started
The folder containing Seamonkey is called folder_with_seamonkey in this manual.
410 chrome.manifest
Copy the following text and paste it into a text file, then save that file as "chrome.manifest":
411 install.rdf
Copy the following text and paste it into a text file, then save that file as "install.rdf":
412 Creating a hybrid CD Developing Mozilla, Outdated_articles
No summary!
413 Creating regular expressions for a microsummary generator Microsummaries, Obsolete
A regular expression is a special kind of string (i.e. a sequence of characters) that matches patterns of characters in other strings. Microsummary generators use them to identify the pages that the generators know how to summarize by matching patterns in those pages' URLs.
414 DTrace Archive, DTrace, Performance, Profiling, QA, Testing
DTrace is Sun Microsystem's dynamic tracing framework that allows developers to instrument a program with probes that have little to no effect on performance when not in use and very little when active. Probe data can be collected with scripts written in D (no, not that one). Mozilla DTrace support has been added by the Sun DTrace team and can be used on Solaris 10 and Mac OS X 10.5.
415 Dehydra Dehydra
The development focus switched to DXR (where the "D" comes from "Dehydra"), which is based on clang instead of gcc. Try DXR instead, or else try the gcc python plugin: https://fedorahosted.org/gcc-python-plugin/.
416 Dehydra Frequently Asked Questions Dehydra
Initially Dehydra was written as an easy way to look for patterns in Control Flow Graphs (CFGs). Images of those graphs reminded me of the multiheaded Hydra monster. Thus De-hydra can be thought of as a decapitating tool for slaying CFGs. Currently Dehydra does not provide the CFG functionality, this functionality is now provided by Treehydra.
417 Dehydra Function Reference
The following functions may be provided by the analysis script and will be called by Dehydra while compiling. See the Dehydra object reference for details on the available object properties.
418 Dehydra Object Reference
Dehydra represents C++ types and variables as JavaScript objects. The objects are designed to distill that type system to the minimum such that it can be easy to match on.
419 Installing Dehydra Dehydra
It is recommended that you use SpiderMonkey revision AURORA_BASE_20110705 when building Dehydra.
420 Using Dehydra
As GCC compiles file, Dehydra calls functions in the user analysis script with information about the code being compiled. For more information, see the function reference and the object reference.
421 Developing New Mozilla Features Developing Mozilla, Outdated_articles
Tips For Contributing New Features To Mozilla.
422 Devmo 1.0 Launch Roadmap MDC Project archives
Comments, ideas, questions and other discussion should be added on the Devmo talk:1.0 Launch Roadmap page. Further details on smaller tasks being done are available at User:Dria:TODO page. See also Current Events.
423 Download Manager improvements in Firefox 3 Download Manager, Firefox 3
Firefox 3 offers improvements to the Download Manager that allow multiple progress listeners, use of the Storage API for data management, download resuming, and more. In addition, you can augment or replace the Download Manager's user interface by implementing the new nsIDownloadManagerUI interface.
424 Download Manager preferences
There are several preferences used by the Download Manager. This article provides a list of them.
425 Drag and Drop Mozilla, XUL
This section describes how to implement objects that can be dragged around and dropped onto other objects.
426 Drag and Drop Example XUL
An example of implementing drag and drop will be implemented in this section.
427 Drag and Drop JavaScript Wrapper XUL
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428 Drag and drop events Firefox 3
Firefox 3 adds two new events that allow you to determine when drag operations begin and end. These events are new in the current working draft of the HTML 5 specification.
429 Editor Embedding Guide Embedding Mozilla, Guide, Midas, NeedsHelp
Given an nsIWebBrowser instance, get an nsIDOMWindow from the GetContentDOMWindow call. Then simply call nsIWebBrowser->do_GetInterface on the nsIWebBrowser to retrieve the nsIEditingSession from it. From there you call editingSession->MakeWindowEditable(domWindow, editortype, PR_TRUE). The first parameter is the nsIDOMWindow you just retrieved, the second is the editor type you want to create, and the third is whether you want the window editable immediately or when the document is done loading. In calling this method, the editor is created underneath and the event listeners are all prepa if (NS_FAILED(rv)) return NS_ERROR_FAILURE; // we are not setup??!! nsCOMPtr<nsIEditingSession> editingSession; nsIWebBrowser->do_GetInterface(getter_AddRefs(editingSession)); if (editingSession) editingSession->MakeWindowEditable(domWindow, "html", PR_TRU?E);
430 Embedding FAQ Embedding Mozilla
No summary!
431 Embedding Mozilla in a Java Application using JavaXPCOM Embedding Mozilla, JavaXPCOM, Obsolete, XPCOM:Language Bindings
XULRunner ships with the JavaXPCOM component, which allows Java code to interact with XPCOM objects. As you will see in this article, working with XPCOM objects in Java is not that much different than doing so in C++.
432 Error Console Extensions, Extensions:Tools, JavaScript, JavaScript:Tools, Tools, Web Development, Web Development:Tools
The Error Console is a tool available in most Mozilla-based applications that is used for reporting errors in the application chrome and in web pages user opens. It reports JavaScript-related errors and warnings, CSS errors and arbitrary messages from chrome code. In Firefox, the Error Console can be opened from the tools menu or by Ctrl-Shift-J.
433 Exception logging in JavaScript Extensions, Extensions:Tools, Guide, JavaScript, JavaScript:Tools, Tools, Web Development, Web Development:Tools
In versions of Firefox prior to Firefox 3, all JavaScript exceptions were always logged into the Error Console if they remained unhandled at the time execution returned back into C++ code. As a result, if, for example, C++ code called a JavaScript component, which threw an exception, that exception would be logged to the console before control was returned to the C++ caller.
434 Existing Content
This is a list of existing mozilla.org documentation. It needs to be checked, prioritized, and migrated.
435 Extension Frequently Asked Questions
This is quick set of answers to the most common issues with extension development. They are currently written with mostly Firefox in mind, but most if not all should easily translate to SeaMonkey, Thunderbird or any of the other applications. For Thunderbird, you may also find the extension HowTo or FAQ pages helpful.
436 External CVS snapshots in mozilla-central
mozilla-central contains copies of external software modules that it depends on.
437 Fast Graphics Performance With HTML
No summary!
439 Firefox Archive, Firefox
Out-of-date information about the Firefox project.
440 Block and Line Layout Cheat Sheet Gecko
The details of block and line layout are tricky; this document serves as a "cheat sheet" that describes how the vagary of different state flags control what's going on. It's a work-in-progress, with questions in red highlight. If you know the answer, please pass it along to me so I can update the document.
441 Building Firefox with Rust code Build documentation, Gecko, Junk, build, rust
Firefox uses the Rust programming language extensively. This page is a rough guide for people using Rust in Firefox. See also the documentation on this topic on the Oxidation wiki page.
442 Content states and the style system Developing Mozilla
Content states are what Gecko uses to implement the various state-dependent in CSS (examples would be :hover, :active, :focus, :target, :checked). We will focus on describing how changes in content state are handled.
443 Disabling interruptible reflow
Add the following variables to your environment to disable Gecko interruptible reflow:
444 Document Loading - From Load Start to Finding a Handler DocShell, Outdated_articles, Uriloader
This document describes the beginning of the document loading process. We start with the request to load a particular link in a particular window, and proceed up to the point at which the data stream is dispatched to the proper handler. The final goal is to find the correct stream listener to pump the data into when necko calls OnDataAvailable (e.g., we may find the HTML parser as the stream listener to give the data to).
445 Documentation for BiDi Mozilla Developing Mozilla, Internationalization
This is preliminary documentation of the changes introduced to Mozilla as part of the BiDi support contributed by IBM (a.k.a. IBMBIDI), written by Simon Montagu and posted to the mozilla-layout mailing list. While it was published in 2001 and might not be totally accurate, it does help understanding the internals of the BiDi code.
446 Downloading Nightly or Trunk Builds NeedsUpdate, QA
There are some terms that are used by the Mozilla community. One sees them on IRC or in bugs. It can be helpful to know exactly what these refer to. Note that this is an attempt at describing the current usage of these terms. This usage may change.
447 Firefox Accounts Firefox Accounts, Identity, Landing, Mozilla, fxa
Firefox Accounts (FxA) is an identity provider that provides authentication and user profile data for Mozilla cloud services. Over the long term we envision that non-Mozilla services and applications will also be able to delegate authentication to Firefox Accounts. The articles listed here will introduce FxA, the underllying technology, and demonstrate how to authenticate using FxA.
448 APIs attached to Firefox Accounts
As a FxA relier, after a user has logged in to her Firefox account with our OAuth 2.0 API, you can access a collection of APIs attached to the user's account. Many of these APIs are still works in progress.
449 Firefox Accounts End-to-end encryption
Firefox Accounts offers an end-to-end encryption support feature for OAuth reliers by deriving a strong encryption key from user's password. Keep in mind that Firefox Accounts does not provide a storage solution, it is up to you to use the generated key and encrypt the data with that key.
450 Firefox Accounts OAuth Dashboard Authentication, Firefox Accounts, Identity, Mozilla, fxa
FxA OAuth Credential Management Dashboard is a web application that lets you provision Firefox Accounts OAuth credentials.
452 Introduction to Firefox Accounts fxa
Firefox Accounts (FxA) is an identity provider that provides authentication and user profile data for Mozilla cloud services. We are also exploring the possibility of allowing non-Mozilla services to delegate authentication to Firefox Accounts.
454 JSS build instructions for OSX 10.6 JSS
The following build instructions were provided by PAVRW. The generic instructions didn't work to build on OSX 10.6.7.
455 Layout FAQ NeedsUpdate
No summary!
456 Layout System Overview Gecko
Layout is primarily concerned with providing a presentation to an HTML or XML document. This presentation is typically formatted in accordance with the requirements of the CSS1 and CSS2 specifications from the W3C. Presentation formatting is also required to provide compatibility with legacy browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator 4.x). The decision about when to apply CSS-specified formatting and when to apply legacy formatting is controlled by the document's DOCTYPE specification. These layout modes are referred to as 'Standards' and 'NavQuirks' modes. (DOCTYPE and modes are explained in more detail in article Mozilla's DOCTYPE sniffing.
457 Multiple Firefox profiles
No summary!
458 Repackaging Firefox enterprise
Notice: The article is about repackaging Firefox 2.0 and is obsolete when working on 3.x repackaging.
460 Style System Overview Gecko
Style sheets & rules
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Rule tree
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Style context interface
461 Using microformats Firefox 3, Microformats
Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to the browser in order to make it possible to present summaries of the information on a page without having to know how to parse the document itself. Firefox 3 implements a global Microformats object that provides access to microformats. This object and its API make finding and reading microformats easy to do.
472 Firefox Sync Sync
Sync refers to a family of related components and services which provide synchronization of data between Mozilla application instances. These components and services include:
473 Code snippets
This page documents how to perform custom actions with Firefox Sync via JavaScript.
474 JavaScript Client API Sync
This page describes how to use the internal client-side Sync JavaScript API. This API is available in Mozilla-based products that use Sync, such as Firefox desktop. This document is somewhat outdated, and the API isn't well-supported for use from add-ons; tread carefully.
475 Syncing custom preferences Sync
When preferences sync is enabled, Firefox Sync will synchronize preferences between the same application based on a whitelist. That means preferences between Firefox and Fennec, for instance, are never synced. To sync preferences between Firefoxes, Fennecs, Thunderbirds, etc., ensure the prefs are whitelisted.
476 Force RTL
(This is a temporary placeholder/stub for the Force RTL page)
477 Frequently Asked Questions NeedsUpdate, SVG, SVG FAQ
We currently maintain two documents to help answer this question: a status page for SVG in Firefox 1.5+ and a status page for SVG in the development trunk.
478 GRE Gecko, XUL, XULRunner
The framework for embedding Mozilla technologies was at one point called the GRE (Gecko Runtime Environment). This embedding framework allows applications to locate a compatible Gecko runtime and embed it without knowing in advance where that runtime will be installed. This document describes how embedders should dynamically link to a GRE. To understand how GREs are registered, see GRE Registration.
479 GRE Registration Gecko, XUL, XULRunner
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480 Gecko Coding Help Wanted Gecko, NeedsHelp, NeedsUpdate
Take a look through LXR, and you'll realize that Mozilla's source code is a big place.
481 HTTP Class Overview Necko
This document provides an overview of the classes used by the Mozilla HTTP implementation. It's meant as a guide to developers wishing to understand or extend the Mozilla HTTP implementation.
482 Hacking wiki MDC Project archives
To be able to hack the MDC wiki software, you'll need a local webserver install, which can run MediaWiki.
483 Help Viewer Toolkit API, XUL, XULRunner
Help Viewer: Allows information to be shown to the user inside Mozilla.
484 Creating a Help Content Pack
Original doc: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/help.../content_packs I hesitate to call it "original", tho, because I've basically rewritten the entire thing so that it's easier and faster to use to create Help content. The previous document had a lot of places where ideas were simply introduced without explanation, and I've tried to go through things a bit more slowly with better descriptions. This is still very much a work in progress, tho, and I need to complete the rest of it soon (where "complete" means "use what's there that's good, build on the stuff that's not as good, and add other useful information as necessary".
485 Helper Apps (and a bit of Save As) Outdated_articles, Uriloader
Image:overview.png
486 Hidden prefs
This page has been flagged by editors or users as needing technical review. Until it is fully reviewed, it may contain inaccurate or incorrect information.
487 How to Write and Land Nanojit Patches Obsolete
Adobe and Mozilla share a copy of Nanojit. This means that landing nanojit patches is a bit complicated, but experience has taught us that this is much better than having separate versions of nanojit.
488 IO Guide/Directory Keys
"Directory Keys" are the keys for nsIDirectoryService, see description. The actual keys are:
489 Introducing the Audio API extension Deprecated
The Audio Data API extension extends the HTML5 specification of the <audio> and <video> media elements by exposing audio metadata and raw audio data. This enables users to visualize audio data, to process this audio data and to create new audio data.
490 Isp Data Administration, enterprise
This page will explain how to create a .rdf or .xml file that you can place in the $INSTALLFOLDER/default/isp to do a variety of things. This page applies to Thunderbird (Mail/News).
491 Java in Firefox Extensions Add-ons, Extensions, Java
If you are in need of calling Java code from within a Firefox extension, you can make use of LiveConnect. LiveConnect gives your extension's JavaScript code (linked from or contained in XUL code) access to 2 objects: java and Packages (note that per this thread, although the new documentation for the LiveConnect reimplementation states that these globals will be deprecated (in the context of applets), "Firefox and the Java Plug-In will continue to support the global java/Packages keywords, in particular in the context of Firefox extensions."). These 2 objects let you make use of the standard JDK classes, e.g.,
492 JavaScript OS.Shared
Module OS.Shared contains tools to interact with the operating system (and, more generally, in C) in JavaScript. All these tools are designed to be used with js-ctypes.
493 JavaScript crypto
Mozilla defines a special JavaScript object to allow web pages access to certain cryptographic-related services. These services are a balance between the functionality web pages need and the requirement to protect users from malicious web sites. Most of these services are available via the DOM window object as window.crypto.
494 CRMF Request object
RFC 4211, the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF), defines a certReqMessage. The object returned by generateCRMFRequest() contains one of those.
495 generateCRMFRequest() NSS
This method will generate a sequence of CRMF requests that has N requests. One request for each key pair that is generated. The first three parameters will be applied to every request. The "escrowAuthorityCert" parameter will only be used for requests that pertain to a key that is being escrowed. After the "escrowAuthorityCert" parameter, the method takes some JavaScript code that is invoked when the CRMF request is ready. Finally, there are 1 or more sets of key generation arguments. Each key generation will be associated with its own request. All the requests will have the same DN.
496 importUserCertificates NSS
The importUserCertificates() method is used to import newly issued certificates for the user. The private key for the certificates must already reside in the user's personal private key database.
497 popChallengeResponse NSS
The resultString will either be a base-64 encoded POPODecKeyRespContent message, or one of the following error strings:
498 Jetpack
499 Basics
Writes some information to the Error Console. You can find the console in the Extra Menu of Firefox.
500 Content
No summary!
501 Page modifications
This documentation is under development. Please see the page modifications API proposal for now.
502 Extenders
No summary!
503 Jetpack Snippets
Bits of code that may come in handy. Feel free to add your own!
504 Libraries
Namespace: jetpack.lib
505 Twitter
Jetpack's Twitter library, jetpack.lib.twitter, is a very simple, lightweight layer on top of Twitter's REST API. In fact it's hardly more than syntactic sugar for doing XMLHttpRequests.
506 Meta
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507 Enabling
The proposed method for accessing Jetpack features that are still in development and may be added in the future is inspired by python's future module. In Python, you can call
508 Enabling Experimental Jetpack Features
The proposed method for accessing Jetpack features that are still in development and may be added in the future is inspired by python's future module. In Python, you can call
509 First Run
Jetpack lets you specify arbitrary content that will be shown to your users when they install your jetpack. You can also register a callback that will be called after installation.
510 First run
Jetpack lets you specify arbitrary content that will be shown to your users when they install your jetpack. You can also register a callback that will be called after installation.
511 Me
The jetpack.me namespace provides mechanisms for introspecting the dynamic state of your jetpack. The namespace currently lives in the future and must be imported before it is used:
512 Settings
The jetpack.storage.settings namespace allows jetpacks to specify user-configurable settings. Jetpack will automatically generate a user interface based on the specification. The settings persist across browser sessions and are stored using the Jetpack [simple storage API][]. Settings are private to each jetpack and are not accessible by other jetpacks.
513 Multimedia
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514 Storage
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515 File access
Click on the paper-clip icon below for a demonstration of the file upload dialog.
516 Settings
The jetpack.storage.settings namespace allows jetpacks to specify user-configurable settings. Jetpack will automatically generate a user interface based on the specification. The settings persist across browser sessions and are stored using the Jetpack simple storage API. Settings are private to each jetpack and are not accessible by other jetpacks.
517 Simple Storage
The jetpack.storage.simple namespace provides an easy way to persist data across browser restarts. It's a simple key-based persistent object data store.
518 System
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519 Clipboard
Jetpack's clipboard support API provides a standardized way for features to access the clipboard. Features can get and set the clipboard in various flavors of data type.
520 Clipboard
Jetpack's clipboard support API provides a standardized way for features to access the clipboard. Features can get and set the clipboard in various flavors of data type.
521 Clipboard Test
<style></style>
522 Clipboard Test
Jetpack's clipboard support API provides a standardized way for features to access the clipboard. Features can get and set the clipboard in various flavors of data type.
523 System information
This documentation is under development. Please see the system information API proposal for now.
524 UI
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525 Menu
Jetpack's menu API allows features to access and modify the browser's built-in menus. Features can also create new menus and attach them almost anywhere, chrome or content, as popup menus or context menus.
526 Notifications
The Notification Box appears at the bottom right corner of the browser and displays important information to the user.
527 Panel
Please refer to the Panels JEP.
528 Selection
Jetpack's selection API provides a method for detecting the selections made by the user. Features can get, set, and listen for selection events in HTML or plain text.
529 Selection
Jetpack's selection API provides a method for detecting the selections made by the user. Features can get, set, and listen for selection events in HTML or plain text.
530 Tabs
In this class you can find information about the tabs in your Firefox window.
531 slideBar
slideBar is a reinvention of the old sidebar features of browsers. They allow quick access to a wide range of both temporary and permanent information at the side of your browser window. When a slideBar feature is selected its contents will be revealed from behind the current webpage.
532 slideBar
To implement a new slideBar within your jetpack code, use the method jetpack.slideBar.append(options)
533 Users
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534 aza
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535 Dropbox
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536 docs
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537 Meta
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538 Enabling Experimental Jetpack Features
The proposed method for accessing Jetpack features that are still in development and may be added in the future is inspired by python's future module. In Python, you can call
539 Storage
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540 Simple Storage
The jetpack.storage.simple namespace provides an easy way to persist data across browser restarts. It's a simple key-based persistent object data store.
541 System
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542 Clipboard
Jetpack's clipboard support API provides a standardized way for features to access the clipboard. Features can get and set the clipboard in various flavors of data type.
543 UI
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544 Selection
Jetpack's selection API provides a method for detecting the selections made by the user. Features can get, set, and listen for selection events in HTML or plain text.
545 jspage
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546 statusBar
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547 statusBar Class
The Class statusBar contains functions to add and control the Statusbar of the Browser. You can find the complete Sourcecode in the status-bar-panel.js file in your Jetpack Repository.
548 Litmus tests
Litmus tests are (non-automated) tests that are documented in the litmus database. See http://litmus.mozilla.org.
549 Mac OS X Build Prerequisites/fink
Fink is a package management system for Mac OS X, alternative to MacPorts. It doesn't seem to be as well maintained (in terms of available packages) as macports, so it is strongly suggested that you use macports instead of fink.
550 Makefile.mozextension.2
This Makefile is a modification of the Makefile.mozextention, found in Makefile for packaging an extension - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (2005).
551 Measuring add-on startup performance Add-ons, Extensions, Guide, Performance, Testing
The About Startup add-on provides a much simpler way to measure startup performance. Once installed, it will gather startup data and display it in the about:startup page. The add-on is very lightweight, so it shouldn't have a noticeable negative effect on your baseline and add-on tests.
552 Message Summary Database MailNews, thunderbird
The Mail Summary Files (.msf) are used to store summary information about messages and threads in a folder, and some meta information about the folder.
553 Metro browser chrome tests Automated testing, Developing Mozilla, Metro Browser
The metro browser chrome test suite is an automated testing framework designed to allow testing of the immersive version of Firefox for Windows 8 and above using JavaScript. It currently allows you to run JavaScript code in the same scope as the immersive browser and report results using the same functions as the Mochitest test framework.
554 Microsummary topics Microsummaries
To programmatically install a microsummary generator -- for example, in an extension that helps users create custom generators for their favorite sites -- obtain a reference to the nsIMicrosummaryService interface implemented by the nsIMicrosummaryService component, then call its installGenerator() method, passing it an XML document containing the generator.
555 Microsummary XML grammar reference Microsummaries
A microsummary generator is an XML document that describes how to pull specific information from a web page to be presented in summary form as a bookmark whose title changes based on the content of the page it targets.
556 Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
When Netscape started the Mozilla browser, it made the conscious decision to support W3C standards. As a result, Mozilla is not fully backwards-compatible with Netscape Navigator 4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer legacy code; for example, Mozilla does not support <layer> as I will discuss later. Browsers, like Internet Explorer 4, that were built before the conception of W3C standards inherited many quirks. In this article, I will describe Mozilla's quirks mode, which provides strong backwards HTML compatibility with Internet Explorer and other legacy browsers.
557 Modularization techniques Mozilla, XPCOM
The purpose of this document is provide all the information you need to create a new Mozilla Module or break existing code into a module. The mechanism we're using is based on the principles laid down by COM, so pretty much anything you know about COM can be applied here, and any reference on COM can provide you with more interesting and complex examples than the ones provided here.
558 Monitoring downloads Download Manager, Firefox 3
Firefox 3 makes it easier than ever to monitor the status of downloads. Although it was possible to do so in previous versions of Firefox, it was previously only possible for one observer to do so at a time. Firefox 3 introduces new API that allows any number of listeners to observe downloads.
559 Mozilla Application Framework Developing Mozilla, XUL, XULRunner
The Mozilla Application Framework: for powerful, easy to develop cross-platform applications
560 Mozilla Application Framework in Detail Developing Mozilla, XUL, XULRunner
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561 Mozilla Crypto FAQ NSS, Outdated_articles
In this document I try to answer some frequently asked questions about the Mozilla web browser and mail/news client and its support for SSL, S/MIME, and related features based on cryptographic technology. Note that this document is for your information only and is not intended as legal advice. If you wish to develop and distribute cryptographic software, particularly for commercial sale or distribution, then you should consult an attorney with expertise in the particular laws and regulations that apply in your jurisdiction.
563 Mozilla Web Developer Community NeedsContent, Obsolete, Web Development
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564 Mozilla project presentations Presentations
This article provides links to presentations covering various aspects of the Mozilla project.
565 Mozprocess
mozprocess provides python process management via an operating system and platform transparent interface to Mozilla platforms of interest. Mozprocess aims to provide the ability to robustly terminate a process (by timeout or otherwise), along with any child processes, on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Mozprocess utilizes and extends subprocess.Popen to these ends.
566 Mozprofile Junk
Mozprofile is a python tool for creating and managing profiles for Mozilla's applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.). In addition to creating profiles, mozprofile can install addons and set preferences.
Mozprofile can be utilized from the command line or as an API.
567 Mozrunner Junk
mozrunner is a python package which handles running of Mozilla applications. mozrunner utilizes mozprofile for managing application profiles and mozprocess for robust process control.
568 NSC_SetPIN
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569 Nanojit Developing Mozilla, SpiderMonkey
Nanojit is a small, cross-platform C++ library that emits machine code. Both the Tamarin JIT and the SpiderMonkey JIT (a.k.a. TraceMonkey) use Nanojit as their back end.
570 LIR
In Nanojit, LIR is the source language for compilation to machine code. LIR stands for low-level intermediate representation. It is a typed assembly language.
571 New Security Model for Web Services SOAP
The proposed declaration file places the server operator, not the client in control of access to his server by untrusted scripts. The access hole is no bigger than the service in question. The access is disabled by default, and there is nothing the user needs to do to open access, and nothing that can go wrong to make a hole in his firewall. It seems fairly easy to drop an access file into the root directory of the web server to allow access.
572 New Skin Notes MDC Project archives
Devmo has a new skin that is ready for testing. If you go to your user preferences, you can change the skin to "Devmo". This is currently just a preview, but we would appreciate help with testing.
573 Overview of how downloads work DocShell, Embedding Mozilla, Necko, Uriloader
There are two ways of downloading files in Mozilla. One way is to encounter a file with an unknown content type, the other is to choose "Save link target as" from the context menu of a link. Things like File|Save Page as, Save Image As, etc. are all part of the second codepath.
600 Plug-n-Hack Security, plugnhack
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.
601 Plug-n-Hack Get Involved Security, plugnhack
While this project has been started by the Mozilla Security Team and has been validated with Firefox and OWASP ZAP, this is an open project and we welcome involvement from anyone, especially people working on other browsers and security tools.
602 Plug-n-Hack Phase1 Security, plugnhack
Plug-n-Hack (PnH) phase 1 allows easier integration and defines how security tools can advertise their capabilities to browsers.
603 Plug-n-Hack Phase2 Security, plugnhack
The next phase of Plug-n-Hack (PnH) is still being planned but is intended to allow browsers to advertise their capabilities to security tools.
604 Plug-n-Hack Tools Supported Security, plugnhack
605 Plugin Architecture Add-ons, Developing Mozilla, NeedsTechnicalReview, NeedsUpdate, Plugins
This page contains some notes on how plugins work internally in Gecko. It is mainly of interest to Gecko developers.
606 Porting NSPR to Unix Platforms NSPR
Last modified 16 July 1998
607 Priority Content
Update: I've removed documents from this list that have been migrated into the wiki. The list of completed documents is available through the DevEdge page.
608 Prism prism
Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesnโ€™t have the menus, toolbars and other accoutrements of a traditional web browser. An SSB also offers tighter integration with the operating system and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser. Applications running in an SSB are therefore able to benefit from many of the advantages of the desktop and of the web at the same time.
609 BlogPosts prism
Just Browsing: Mozilla Prism Update
ThansCorner: Mozilla Prism - Webrunner with Pazzaz
Mozilla Prism - A Revolution in Web Apps
ThansCorner: Mozilla WebRunner 0.7
Site Specific Browsers
WebRunner
Using WebRunner
WebRunner + Gears = Offline Desktop Reader
WebRunner 0.5
WebRunner 0.5 - Mac Support
WebRunner 0.5 - Linux Install
WebRunner, Google Reader, and Google Notebook
Distraction Free GTD - 32+ web app files for online todo lists
Mozilla WebRunner: a one-window, tabless browser with no URL bar
WebRunner becomes Prism - A Mozilla Labs Project
Mozilla Labs: Prism
Alex Faaborg: Prism
Mozilla Prism: Bringing Web Apps to the Desktop
Everyone should use Site Specific Browsers
Mozilla Prism Portable (Spanish)
Prism, l'avenir des applications Web selon Mozilla (French)
Mozilla Prism : bundle custom Google Reader + Talk (French)
Just Browsing: Site-Specific Browsers
610 Build
Building Prism is similar to building McCoy, but there are some differences which is why a separate build documentation article. To build prism, you must first build the xulrunner tree, and then build prism.
611 BundleLibrary prism
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612 Bundles prism
In addition to passing simple command line parameters, Prism can use a zipped bundle package to install a webapp. The bundle can hold additional resources currently limited to:
613 Configuration prism
A webapp profile is a simple, INI-style text file that specifies some parameters about a webapp. The profile can be used to launch the webapp in Prism. The parameters also control some of the features of the Prism host window. Here is the list of parameters:
614 Extensions
Prism has support for extensions. Extensions are built using the same methods as any Mozilla-based extension. Since Prism is a totally separate host application, there are some Prism-specific issues that you need to handle when creating your extension. Most notably, the Prism application ID and the differences in the user interface (UI). Extensions typically overlay the host application's UI to add toolbar buttons, menus and other features. One of Prism's features is an extreme lack of UI elements, which means that trying to use the same overlays in Firefox and Prism is really not possible.
615 FAQ prism
Prism is an application that integrates web applications into the desktop environment. It lets users start web applications from their desktop, start menu, and dock, and it opens those applications in their own window separate from a web browser and without the browser interface (back and forward buttons, location bar, etc.).
616 HostWindow prism
Prism hosts web applications in a simple, minimal window. The window does have some UI components (as shown in the screenshot below). Prism can be configured to show or hide several of the UI components.
617 Installer prism
The installer should configure the OS to associate *.webapp files with Prism. This means that when you double-click or launch a *.webapp file, Prism is launched and automatically opens the web application.
618 Scripting prism
Prism allows for some client-side web application customization. The web application bundle is allowed to hold a JavaScript file named webapp.js (called the webapp script). This file will be loaded into the Prism chrome window very much like a Firefox extension is loaded into the browser chrome window. It can contain the following functions:
619 Styling prism
Prism allows for some client-side web application styling. The web application bundle is allowed to hold a CSS file named webapp.css (called the webapp style). This file will be loaded into the web application content stylesheet and can override the web application's native styles.
620 Proxy UI
(Recently Added - some support for reading OS and account settings.)
621 PyDOM
This is the documentation for the binding of Python and the Mozilla DOM. This allows you to use Python code (almost) anywhere you can use JavaScript.
622 RDF API
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623 RDF Datasource How-To RDF
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624 Reading textual data Add-ons, Extensions, Internationalization, Unicode
This article describes how to read textual data from streams, files and sockets.
625 Remote XUL XUL
How to use XUL delivered from a webserver, not as part of chrome.
626 Remote debugging
When a bug is reproducible by a community member, but not on a developer's computer, a last-resort strategy is to debug it on the community member's computer. The crash victim should at least know how to run a debugger, if not how to use it, and should have a debug build of Firefox handy.
627 Remotely debugging Firefox for Metro
This article explains how to use remote debugging to inspect and code running in the new Windows 8 ("Metro-style") Firefox app, using the developer tools in Firefox on the desktop.
628 Rsyncing the CVS Repository Developing Mozilla
The mozilla.org CVS repository can be downloaded via rsync. This is useful for faster diffs or for attempting to import it into another version control system.
629 Running Windows Debug Builds Downloaded From Tinderbox
If you run the windows debug builds you will often get "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect..." This is because the debug builds need the msvc80 crt debug dlls. You can see this by looking in at firefox.exe with http://www.dependencywalker.com/.
630 SXSW 2007 presentations Presentations
Presentations about the Mozilla project given at the SXSW 2007 event in Austin, Texas.
631 Safe Browsing
This documentation now lives on the main Mozilla Wiki, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Safe_Browsing.
632 Safe Browsing: Design Documentation
This documentation now lives on the main Mozilla Wiki, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Phishing_Protection:_Design_Documentation.
633 Safely loading URIs Add-ons, Extensions, Security
Not all URI loads are safe. For example, loading some file: URIs can hang the browser or even crash the operating system in some cases. Some other schemes are used internally by Mozilla modules to communicate with each other. Finally, some URIs (e.g. chrome: give the loaded page expanded privileges. If a web page gets access to a window with such expanded privileges, it may be able to abuse it to gain access to those privileges itself.
634 Same origin policy for XBL Same-origin policy, Security, XBL
The same origin policy used for XBL documents is different from the policy used for other content. This article provides a description of how the same origin policy for XBL works.
635 Space Manager Detailed Design Gecko
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.
636 Space Manager High Level Design Gecko
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. When elements are floated to the left or right in a layout, they take up space and influence where other elements can be placed. The Space Manager is responsible for keeping track of where space is taken up and where it is available. This information is used by block layout to correctly compute where other floated elements should be placed, and how much space is available to normal in-flow elements that flow around the floated bits.
637 Standalone XPCOM Outdated articles, Outdated_articles, XPCOM
Standalone XPCOM is a tree configuration that builds a minimal set of libraries (shared mostly) that can be used to get all features of XPCOM. The contents of this standalone XPCOM in general are:
638 Standard Makefile Header
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639 Static Analysis for Windows Code under Linux
This document will describe how to run Mozilla static check for Windows code under Linux platform by creating a cross-compiler with Dehydra support for Mingw.
640 Stress testing
Consume.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools can consume various resources: physical memory, CPU time, page file, disk space and even the kernel pool. Although for Win2003, it should install into WinXP fine (Win2000 compatibility is unknown). The only downside is you can't specify how much of the resource to use, only which one to consume. Also be warned: always remember the -time option, or you may be hitting that physical reset button sooner than you would have liked!
641 String Quick Reference XPCOM
What: Use abstract classes instead of concrete classes when passing strings across function boundaries
642 String Rosetta Stone
FindInReadable(const nsAString& pattern, nsAString::const_iterator start, nsAString::const_iterator end, nsStringComparator& aComparator = nsDefaultStringComparator())
643 Structure of an installable bundle Add-ons, Extensions, Search plugins, Themes, Toolkit API, XULRunner
XULRunner applications, extensions, and themes all share a common directory structure, and in some cases the same bundle can be used as a standalone XULRunner application as well as an installable application extension.
644 Supporting per-window private browsing
Firefox 20 introduced per-window private browsing mode, in which private user data is stored and accessed concurrently with public user data from another window.
645 Supporting private browsing mode Private browsing
Firefox 3.5 introduced private browsing mode, in which potentially private information is not recorded. This includes cookies, history information, download information, and so forth.
646 Table Cellmap Gecko
The table layout use the cellmap for two purposes:
647 Table Cellmap - Border Collapse
This document describes the additional information that is stored for border collapse tables in the cellmap.
648 Table Layout Regression Tests Gecko, Outdated_articles
Changes in layout, parser and content code can have unintended side effects, also known as regressions. It is good style to check for these unwanted regressions and fixing them before checkin rather than causing Bugzilla avalanches.
649 Table Layout Strategy Gecko
The table layout algorithm is based on two W3C recommendations: HTML 4.01 (Chapter 11) and CSS2.1 (Chapter 17).In CSS2 a distinction between fixed and auto layout of tables has been introduced. The auto-layout mechanism is implemented in BasicTableLayoutStrategy.cpp the fixed-layout in FixedTableLayoutStrategy.cpp. All these files are in the layout/html/table/src subdirectory.
650 Tamarin JavaScript, Landing, Tamarin
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651 ABCasm
ABCasm - an ABC assembler
652 Tamarin Acceptance Testing
In order to ensure that changes to the Tamarin code base are high quality before submitting, all developers are required to complete the following steps.
653 Abc Assembler Tests
It is possible to write tests using the abc assembler. The assembler code can be found in /utils/abcasm. Tests can be found in /test/acceptance/abcasm and end with the .abs extension. The tests are run using the same runtests.py script that is used for the actionscript tests.
654 Actionscript Acceptance Tests
The majority of the acceptance tests are written in actionscript and located in test/acceptance.
655 Tamarin Acceptance Test Template
This is the test template for Tamarin acceptance tests (placed in test/acceptance/feature_name):
656 Actionscript Performance Tests
Performance tests for tamarin are located in the test/performance directory. Similar to the acceptance tests set the environment variables AVM, ASC, BUILTINABC. The runtests.py test harness works by parsing the abc stdout for lines like: 'metric time 566'. The testconfig.txt file defines groups of tests to run (e.g. sunspider, scimark, language). By default the time for each test is output. Use the --memory flag to capture the maximum private bytes memory (high water mark) for a test. By default each test is run a single time. To run each test multiple times use the --iterations flag. When the number of iterations is greater than 2 all times are displayed in [], faster time is displayed in the output column, and the 95% confidence interval is calculated. The 95% confidence interval is the calculated percentage of the mean value to fall within 95% of the measured results. For example if the mean is 100 and the 95% confidence interval is 2%, 95% of the expected values should fall between 98 and 102. To compare two vms against each other export AVM2=<path to 2nd vm> or use --avm2=<path to 2nd vm>. The percentage difference is calculated between the two vms. See the --help usage for more details about performance tests.
657 Cmdline tests
The cmdline testsuite is located in test/cmdline. The testsuite allows more flexibility by coding scripts in python allowing any executable to run, sending commands to stdin, and asserting output using regular expressions. See test/cmdline/README document for more information. Two use cases for the cmdline testsuite:
658 Running Tamarin acceptance tests
The Tamarin acceptance tests can be used to verify your installation and or local changes that you have made to the source. To run acceptance tests on the android shell see the "Testing the Android Shell" heading below. Running the Tamarin test suite requires the following steps:
659 Running Tamarin performance tests
The tamarin performance tests can be used to measure performance changes made to tamarin. To run performance tests on the android shell see 'Testing the Android Shell' below. Running the performance tests requires the following steps:
660 Tamarin Build System Documentation
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661 Tamarin Releases
This page tracks Tamarin source code releases, past, present and future.
662 Tamarin-central rev 703:2cee46be9ce0
Tamarin-Central rev 703:2cee46be9ce0 was declared stable on 12/02/08. The announcement sent to tamarin-devel can be read here.
663 Tamarin Roadmap
The Tamarin roadmap is intended to provide visibility into planned features and release dates. The roadmap is a living document representing current best thinking and is subject to change. Comments or questions are welcome and encouraged via the tamarin-devel mailing list.
664 Tamarin build documentation Build documentation, Developing Mozilla, Tamarin
The following instructions are for obtaining and building the Tamarin Central source code. For instructions on Tamarin Tracing, please see Tamarin Tracing Build Documentation.
665 Tamarin mercurial commit hook
It is highly recommended that all developers enable the mercurial commit hook for tamarin. The hook is located in the tamarin-redux repository in the file utils/hooks/tamarin-commit-hook.py
666 The Download Manager schema Firefox 3
The Download Manager uses an SQLite table to keep track of downloads in progress as well as queued and past downloads.
667 The life of an HTML HTTP request Developing Mozilla, DocShell, Guide, Necko, NeedsUpdate
Image:url_load.gif
668 The new nsString class implementation (1999) Outdated_articles, XPCOM
This document is intended to briefly describe the new nsString class architecture, and discuss the implications on memory management, optimizations, internationalization and usage patterns.
669 TraceVis
TraceVis is a performance visualization system for TraceMonkey. If TraceMonkey is built with TraceVis, and run with TraceVis enabled, then TraceMonkey will output a log of all its activity transitions. The log can be postprocessed into a visualization that can be used to rapidly diagnose many tracing-related performance issues.
670 Transforming XML with XSLT:Mozilla XSLT
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671 Transforming XML with XSLT:The Netscape XSLT
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672 Treehydra Treehydra
Try the gcc python plugin instead: https://fedorahosted.org/gcc-python-plugin/.
673 Treehydra Build Instructions Dehydra
Follow Dehydra build instructions. This automatically builds Treehydra for you.
674 Treehydra Manual
Treehydra is meant to be used for analyses that need more detail than Dehydra's flattened ASTs. Instead of representing code in "easy" form like Dehydra, Treehydra relies on GIMPLE, the GCC Internals "middle-end" intermediate representation. Treehydra simply reflects the GCC Internals structures into JavaScript.
675 Tuning Pageload Developing Mozilla
Tuning pageload can be beneficial if you know what you're doing. Firefox (and all Mozilla Products/Projects which do page-loading) ship with what are considered the "best" settings for the most cases. This document explains which preferences to tweak to affect your pageload time. You use the URL about:config or the file prefs.js in your profile to change these.
676 URIScheme Necko, NeedsUpdate, URI, URL
List of Mozilla supported URI schemes
677 URIs and URLs Guide, Mozilla, Necko, NeedsUpdate
Handling network and locally retrievable resources is a central part of Necko. Resources are identified by URI "Uniform Resource Identifier" (Taken from RFC 2396):
678 Uriloader Uriloader
Uriloader: Responsible for the dispatch of content to content handlers as it comes in from the network.
681 Using addresses of stack variables with NSPR threads on win16 NSPR, Outdated_articles
This is a cautionary note that may be old information for some of you. However, since it affects the portability of code, it was deemed prudent to include a short memo describing the issue.
682 Using cross commit Tools
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683 Using gdb on wimpy computers
If your computer has less than 256 MB of memory, your computer will become unhappy as GDB loads Mozilla's shared libraries. The solution to this is to delay loading shared libraries until they are actually needed. However, you need to make sure that the base libraries like libc and pthreads are loaded before you tell GDB to stop loading shared libraries. If you don't allow those libraries to be loaded then GDB will not be able to properly debug threads on Linux. Mozilla uses pthreads for its networking library so you need to be able to work in a threaded environment. The best way to do this is to set a breakpoint in main, let the program run until main and then turn off automatic library loading. From there you can allow the program to continue running. Here's an example:
684 Venkman Extensions, Extensions:Tools, JavaScript, JavaScript:Tools, Tools, Venkman, Web Development, Web Development:Tools
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla's JavaScript Debugger. It aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers namely Firefox, Netscape 7.x/9.x and SeaMonkey. Note that it is not included in the Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon, Galeon and Netscape 8.x. Venkman has been provided as part of the Mozilla install distribution since October 2001, as well as an extension package in XPI format.
685 Using Breakpoints in Venkman Tools, Venkman
This article continues a series of articles on Venkman that began with Venkman Introduction.
686 Venkman Internals Developing Mozilla, Tools, Venkman
Start with Venkman Information.
687 Venkman Introduction Tools, Venkman
A powerful new tool is available for web developers for use in many Mozilla-based products, including Firefox, Mozilla Suite and Netscape 7.x. The JavaScript debugger, also called Venkman, has been a part of the Mozilla browser and the community of web and script developers there for some time. This article provides an overview and some practical examples of using the JavaScript debugger in web applications and web page scripting. This introduction is the first in a series of articles on Venkman and JavaScript debugging. Even if you are already using Venkman, the features, procedures, and tips described here will make you a more confident web developer and debugger.
688 Video presentations Presentations
Mozilla is actively working to produce video presentations that can help you learn how the Mozilla codebase works and how to take advantage of its technology in your own applications and extensions. This article is a jumping-off point to help you find those presentations.
689 When To Use ifdefs Developing Mozilla
The mozilla codebase is used for many different projects and products, including Firefox, Thunderbird, XULRunner, and many others. Sometimes the same basic code is used for multiple projects, but there are small differences needed. "ifdefs", or conditional instructions, are used to build different code
693 Writing textual data Add-ons, Extensions, Internationalization, Unicode
This article describes how to write textual data to streams, files and sockets in an internationalization-aware way.
694 XBL Landing, Mozilla, Reference, XBL
XML Binding Language (XBL, sometimes also called Extensible Bindings Language) is a language for describing bindings that can be attached to elements in other documents. The element that the binding is attached to, called the bound element, acquires the new behavior specified by the binding.
695 XBL 1.0 Reference XBL
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696 Anonymous Content
A binding can specify an anonymous content template using the content element. This template describes a content tree that will be generated around the bound element during binding attachment. An element declared in a bound document using a single tag can then be constructed out of multiple child elements, and this implementation is hidden from the bound document.
697 Binding Attachment and Detachment XBL
Bindings can be attached to elements through CSS using the -moz-binding property.
698 Binding Implementations Mozilla, Reference, XBL
Bindings can define methods and properties on a bound element using the implementation tag. A binding implementation provides a new set of methods and properties that can be invoked directly from the bound element.
699 DOM Interfaces
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700 Elements XBL
This section is tested and adjusted for the current Firefox implementation. Please edit only if an actual behavior differs from the described one. Please do not edit only on the basis of another XBL specification.
701 Event Handlers
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702 Example Sticky Notes
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703 XML in Mozilla NeedsHelp, NeedsUpdate, XML
Mozilla has a relatively good support for XML. Several World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendations and drafts from the XML family of specifications are supported, as well as other related technologies.
704 XPInstall XPInstall, XPInstall_API_reference
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705 Creating XPI Installer Modules XPInstall
Mozilla has introduced major changes to the way that themes and all the other parts of the UI are packaged. This new packaging scheme is called XPI (pronounced "zippy"), and interacts with XPInstall. A XPI file typically contains the resources to be installed (in this case the barley.jar we want to have installed in the Mozilla/bin/chrome/ directory) and an install script that guides the installation process.
706 Install Wizards (aka: Stub Installers) XPInstall
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707 Mac stub installer XPInstall
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708 Unix stub installer XPInstall
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709 Windows stub installer XPInstall
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710 Learn XPI Installer Scripting by Example XPInstall, XPInstall_API_reference
This article uses the installer script from browser.xpi install package as the basis for discussing XPI installations in general. This installer script is relatively short, but it exercises most of the important features of the XPInstall API, and it can easily be used as a template for other more general software installations. In this article, we use the unix install file, but the installers for all the platforms are quite similar, and you can easily take what you learn here and apply it to installations on any platform that mozilla supports.
711 Installer Script
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712 Using XPInstall to Install Plugins Add-ons, Plugins, XPInstall, XPInstall_API_reference
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713 Install script template Add-ons, Plugins, XPInstall
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714 XPInstall API reference XPInstall, XPInstall_API_reference
See complete list
715 Examples
Trigger Scripts and Install Scripts describes typical kinds of script that use the XPInstall API.
716 File.macAlias
In this example, a mac alias is created for software (AppleCD Audio Player) that is installed locally.
717 File.windowsShortcut
In this example, the windowsShortcut method is used to add a shortcut in the Program directory ("Program" is a keyword for the directory in which the program itself is installed, for example, C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape 6\" on Windows) to Windows software (misc.exe) that is installed in the "Windows" directory.
718 Install.addDirectory
The Install object's addDirectory method queues an entire directory for installation once performInstall is called.
719 Install.addFile
The Install object's addFile method is the standard way to queue files for installation.
720 InstallTrigger.installChrome
Trigger scripts are typically invoked by JavaScript event handlers on hyperlinks. When a user clicks the link "Install the New Blue theme" in the example below, XPInstall downloads, registers, and installs the theme contained in newblue.xpi to the user's profile directory.
721 InstallTrigger.startSoftwareUpdate
This is a very simple example of the InstallTrigger object's principal method, startSoftwareUpdate, which takes a string representing the path to the XPI and installs that XPI on the local machine.
722 Trigger Scripts and Install Scripts
Trigger scripts are simple installations that can be initiated from event handlers and other JavaScript code on a web page.
723 Windows Install
This example shows the installation of a XPI in which user profile information is contained.
724 File Object
Use the File object to manipulate local files and directories during the installation process.
725 Methods
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726 Install Object XPInstall_API_reference
Use the Install object to manage the downloading and installation of software with the XPI Installation Manager.
727 Methods
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728 Properties
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729 InstallVersion Object
You use InstallVersion objects to contain version information for software.
730 Methods
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731 Properties
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732 Return Codes
The methods described in this chapter can return any of the following return codes. In Mozilla/SeaMonkey, these constants are defined as part of the xpinstall object (formerly the SoftwareUpdate object in Netscape Communicator 4.5).
733 WinProfile Object
(Windows only) Windows developers use this object to manipulate the content of a Windows .ini file.
734 Methods
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735 WinReg Object
(Windows only)
736 Methods
The WinRegValue constructor creates a WinRegValue object.
737 WinRegValue
(Windows only)
738 XPJS Components Proposal Outdated_articles
Draft 1.0
739 XRE
No summary!
740 XTech 2005 Presentations Presentations
No summary!
741 Directions of the Mozilla RDF engine Presentations, RDF
This presentation showed new developments in the Mozilla RDF engine. These include plans to expose the RDF API to public web content, as well as performance and correctness improvements.
742 Extending Gecko with XBL and XTF Presentations, XBL, XTF
This session explored ways to extend Mozilla/Firefox to handle new XML tags and namespaces via drop-in extensions to the layout engine.
743 Mozilla E4X E4X, JavaScript, Presentations
"ECMAScript for XML" (ECMA-357), a new standard for writing and processing XML directly in JavaScript (ECMA-262, ISO-16262). E4X marries XML and JavaScript syntax, and extends JavaScript to include namespaces, qualified names, and XML elements and lists. E4X also adds new JavaScript operators for filtering XML lists, and for enumerating XML children and descendants. Another E4X feature: the ability to bind a W3C DOM document to a new XML object, reflecting the DOM in E4X terms so that updates to either the DOM or the E4X object hierarchy show up in the other.
744 Rich Web
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745 SVG And Canvas In Mozilla Presentations, SVG
Today's Web browsers offer somewhat limited graphics capabilities to Web developers. Advances in hardware, especially graphics processors, offer the potential for far richer graphics in interactive applications. To realize this potential in Web applications, browsers must expose rich new graphics APIs to Web content. The Mozilla project will meet this challenge with two major new features to be delivered in Firefox 1.5: integrated SVG and a new canvas HTML element. Work is also underway "under the hood" on a new unified graphics architecture that uses 3D graphics processors to accelerate all rendering. This work provides additional benefits to Web developers such as the ability to apply SVG effects to HTML content.
746 XUL - Mozilla's XML User Interface Language Presentations, XUL
Ben Goodger, lead engineer for Mozilla Firefox talked about XUL, Mozilla's XML User Interface toolkit.
747 XTech 2006 Presentations Presentations
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748 XUL Landing, Mozilla, XUL
XUL (XML User Interface Language) is Mozilla's XML-based language for building user interfaces of applications like Firefox.
749 <statusbarpanel> Deprecated, XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An individual element of a statusbar. This is a special type of button which is drawn differently. Unlike normal buttons, a statusbarpanel can only have a label or an image but not both. This element is often used with a short label or icon to indicate status, for instance whether the user is online or whether there are new messages.
750 A XUL Bestiary Add-ons, Extensions, NeedsTechnicalReview, XUL
This XULNote presents some of the key concepts and terms in the XUL development environment. The purpose of this article is not to describe these items in any great detail but to define what they are in simple terms. I selected items for this group because they seemed to be either shrouded in mystery, misused as concepts or terms, or underestimated according to their role in XUL and cross-platform development. In contrast to the Mozilla Jargon File, this article describes items of specific interest to the web or content developer looking to establish a context for understanding Mozilla's new technologies -- and in particular Mozilla's XML-based User Interface Language, XUL.
751 Accessibility/XUL Accessibility Reference Accessibility, XUL
This table is designed to show how to expose text properly for various XUL element types. Sections in bold are to draw attention to pieces that are often overlooked for visual layouts. Underlined text may be read by the screen reader.
752 Attribute (XUL) XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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753 Flexgroup
"flexgroup" is used to group flexible elements together and should be set to an integer. Elements with a lower flexgroup are flexed first. When those elements have reached their maximum sizes, the elements with the next higher flexgroup are flexed. This process continues until there are no more elements remaining. The same process occurs when decreasing the size, except in the other direction.
754 accelerated XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
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755 acceltext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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756 accessible XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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757 accesskey Reference, XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference, accesskey
No summary!
758 activetitlebarcolor XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
759 afterselected XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
760 align Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL
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761 allowevents XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
762 allownegativeassertions XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
763 alternatingbackground XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
764 alwaysopenpopup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
765 attribute XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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766 autoFillAfterMatch XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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767 autocheck XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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768 autocompleteenabled XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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769 autocompletepopup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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770 autocompletesearch XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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771 autocompletesearchparam XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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772 autofill XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
773 autoscroll XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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774 backdrag XUL, XUL Attribute
No summary!
775 beforeselected XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
776 bottom XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
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777 browser.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
Type: one of the values below.The type of browser, which can be used to set access of the document loaded inside the browser.
778 browserid XUL, XUL Reference
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779 button.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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780 buttonaccesskeyaccept XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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781 buttonaccesskeycancel XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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782 buttonaccesskeydisclosure XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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783 buttonaccesskeyextra1 XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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784 buttonaccesskeyextra2 XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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785 buttonaccesskeyhelp XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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786 buttonalign XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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787 buttondir XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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788 buttondisabledaccept XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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789 buttonlabelaccept XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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790 buttonlabelcancel XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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791 buttonlabeldisclosure XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
792 buttonlabelextra1 XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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793 buttonlabelextra2 XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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794 buttonlabelhelp XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
795 buttonorient XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
796 buttonpack XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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797 buttons XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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798 checkState XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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799 checkbox.src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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800 checked XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
801 chromemargin XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
802 class XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
803 clicktoscroll
clicktoscroll, if true, the arrows must be clicked to scroll the scrollbox content.
804 close XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
805 closebutton XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
806 closemenu XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
807 coalesceduplicatearcs XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
808 collapse XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
809 collapsed XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
810 color XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
811 colorpicker.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
812 cols XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
813 command XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
814 commandupdater XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
815 completedefaultindex XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
816 completeselectedindex
No summary!
817 container XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
818 containment XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
819 contentcontextmenu XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
820 contenttooltip XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
821 context XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
822 contextmenu XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
823 control XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
824 crop XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
825 curpos XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
826 current XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
827 currentset NeedsHelp, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
828 customindex XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
829 customizable XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
830 cycler XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
831 datasources XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
832 datepicker.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
833 datepicker.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
834 decimalplaces XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
835 default XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
836 defaultButton XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
837 defaultset XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
838 description XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
839 dir XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
840 disableKeyNavigation XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
841 disableautocomplete XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
842 disableautoselect XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
843 disablechrome XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
844 disableclose XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
845 disabled XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
846 disablefastfind XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
847 disableglobalhistory
No summary!
848 disablehistory
No summary!
849 disablesecurity XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
850 dlgtype XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
851 dragging XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
852 drawintitlebar
No summary!
853 droppedLinkHandler XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
854 editable XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
855 editor.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
856 editortype XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
857 element XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
858 empty XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
859 emptytext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
860 enableColumnDrag XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
861 enablehistory XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
862 equalsize XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
863 eventnode XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
864 events XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
865 expr XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
866 fadein XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
867 findnextaccesskey XUL, XUL Attributes
No summary!
868 findpreviousaccesskey
No summary!
869 first-tab XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
870 firstdayofweek XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
871 firstpage XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
872 fixed XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
873 flags XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
874 flex XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
875 focused XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
876 forcecomplete XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
877 fullscreenbutton XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
878 grippyhidden XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
879 grippytooltiptext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
880 group XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
881 handleCtrlTab XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
882 height XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
883 helpURI XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
884 hidden XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
885 hidechrome XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
886 hidecolumnpicker XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
887 hideheader XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
888 hideseconds XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
889 hidespinbuttons XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
890 highlightaccesskey
No summary!
891 highlightnonmatches XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
892 homepage XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
893 href XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
894 icon XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
895 iconsize Toolbar, XUL, XUL Attribute
No summary!
896 id XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
897 iframe.transparent
No summary!
898 ignoreblurwhilesearching XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
899 ignorecase XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
900 ignoreincolumnpicker XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
901 ignorekeys XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
902 image XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
903 image.onload
No summary!
904 inactivetitlebarcolor XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
905 increment XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
906 index XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
907 inputtooltiptext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
908 insertafter XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
909 insertbefore XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
910 instantApply XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
911 inverted XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
912 iscontainer XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
913 isempty XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
914 key XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
915 keycode XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
916 keytext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
917 label XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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918 label.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
919 last-tab XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
920 lastSelected XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
921 lastpage XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
922 left XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
923 lightweightthemes Lightweight themes, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
924 lightweightthemesfooter
No summary!
925 linkedpanel XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
926 listcell.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
927 listitem.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
928 matchcaseaccesskey
No summary!
929 max XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
930 maxheight XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
931 maxlength XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
932 maxpos XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
933 maxrows XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
934 maxwidth XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
935 member XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
936 menu XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
937 menuactive XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
938 menuitem.key XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
939 menuitem.name XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
940 menuitem.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
More information on adding checkmarks to menus in the XUL tutorial
941 min XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
942 minheight XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
943 minresultsforpopup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
944 minwidth XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
945 mode
No summary!
946 modifiers XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
947 mousethrough XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
948 movetoclick
No summary!
949 multiline XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
950 multiple XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
951 name XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
952 negate XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
953 newlines XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
954 next XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
955 noautofocus XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
956 noautohide XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
957 noinitialfocus XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
958 nomatch XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
959 norestorefocus
No summary!
960 notification.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
961 object XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
962 observes XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
963 onbeforeaccept XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
964 onbookmarkgroup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
965 onchange NeedsHelp, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
An onchange attribute is an event listener to the object for the Event change. A change event is fired in different ways for different XUL Input Elements as listed below:
966 onclick XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
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967 onclosetab XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
968 oncommand XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
969 oncommandupdate XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
970 onerror XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
971 onerrorcommand XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
972 oninput XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
973 onload XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
974 onnewtab XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
975 onpaneload XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
976 onpopuphidden XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
977 onpopuphiding XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
978 onpopupshowing XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
979 onpopupshown XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
980 onsearchbegin XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
981 onsearchcomplete XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
982 onselect
No summary!
983 ontextcommand XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
984 ontextentered XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
985 ontextrevert XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
986 ontextreverted XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
987 onunload XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
988 open NeedsHelp, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference, needsattention
No summary!
989 ordinal XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
990 orient XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
991 pack XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
992 page
No summary!
993 pageid XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
994 pageincrement XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
995 pagestep XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
996 panel.consumeoutsideclicks
No summary!
997 panel.fade XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
998 panel.flip Reference, XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
999 panel.ignorekeys XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1000 panel.label XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1001 panel.level XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1002 panel.noautohide XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1003 panel.type Reference, XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
1004 parent XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1005 parsetype XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1006 pending Reference, XUL, XUL Attributes
No summary!
1007 persist XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1008 persistence XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1009 phase XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1010 pickertooltiptext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1011 pinned XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
1012 placeholder XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1013 popup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1014 popup.left XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1015 popup.position XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1016 popup.top XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1017 popupalign
No summary!
1018 popupanchor
No summary!
1019 position XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1020 predicate XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1021 preference XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1022 preference-editable XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1023 preference.name XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1024 preference.type NeedsHelp, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1025 prefpane.selected XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1026 prefpane.src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1027 prefwindow.onload
No summary!
1028 prefwindow.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1029 primary XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1030 priority XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1031 progressmeter.max
No summary!
1032 progressmeter.mode XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1033 progressmeter.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1034 properties XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1035 query.name XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1036 query.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1037 querytype XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1038 readonly XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1039 ref XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1040 rel XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1042 removeelement XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1043 reserved DOM, Deprecated, events
No summary!
1044 resizeafter XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1045 resizebefore XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1046 resizer.dir XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1047 resizer.element XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1048 resizer.type XUL, XUL Attribute
No summary!
1049 right
No summary!
1050 rows NeedsHelp, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1051 screenX XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1052 screenY XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1053 script.src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1054 script.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1055 searchSessions XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1056 searchbutton XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1057 searchlabel XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1058 selected XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1059 selectedIndex NeedsHelp, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1060 seltype XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1061 separator.orient XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1062 setfocus XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1063 showcaret XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1064 showcommentcolumn XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1065 showimagecolumn XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference, popup
No summary!
1066 showpopup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1067 size XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1068 sizemode XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
This attribute is used to save and restore the state of a window (together with the persist attribute) and for CSS styles (e.g. to hide the resizer grippy on maximized windows).
1069 sizetopopup XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1070 smoothscroll XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1071 sort XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1072 sortActive XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1073 sortDirection XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1074 sortResource XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1075 sortResource2 XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1076 spellcheck XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
The HTML
1077 src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1078 state XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1079 statedatasource XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1080 statusbar XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1081 statustext Deprecated, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1082 stringbundle.src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1083 style XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1084 subject XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1085 substate XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1086 suppressonselect XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1087 tab.selected XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1088 tabindex XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1089 tabmodalPromptShowing XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1090 tabs.onselect XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1091 tabscrolling XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1092 targets XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1093 template XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1094 template.container XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1095 textbox.autoFill
No summary!
1096 textbox.crop XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1097 textbox.disableAutocomplete
No summary!
1098 textbox.disablehistory XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1099 textbox.empty XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1100 textbox.forceComplete
No summary!
1101 textbox.ignoreBlurWhileSearching
No summary!
1102 textbox.label XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1103 textbox.min XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
1104 textbox.minResultsForPopup
No summary!
1105 textbox.onblur XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1106 textbox.onchange XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1107 textbox.onfocus XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1108 textbox.showCommentColumn
No summary!
1109 textbox.tabScrolling
No summary!
1110 textbox.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1111 textbox.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1112 textnode.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1113 timeout XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1114 timepicker.increment XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1115 timepicker.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1116 title XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1117 titlebar
No summary!
1118 toolbar.mode XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1119 toolbarbutton.title
No summary!
1120 toolbarbutton.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1121 toolbarname XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1122 tooltip XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1123 tooltiptext XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1124 tooltiptextnew XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1125 top XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1126 tree.editable XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1127 tree.onselect XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1128 treecell.editable XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1129 treecell.mode XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1130 treecell.src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1131 treecol.editable XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1132 treecol.src XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1133 treecol.type XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1134 treecol.width XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1135 treeitem.label XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1136 treelines
No summary!
1137 type
No summary!
1138 unread XUL, XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1139 uri XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
1140 userAction XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1141 validate XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1142 value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1143 var XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1144 visuallyselected
No summary!
1145 wait-cursor XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1146 where.subject XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1147 where.value XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1148 width XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1149 windowtype XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1150 wrap XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1151 wraparound XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1152 Building accessible custom components in XUL Accessibility, DHTML, XUL
DHTML Accessibility is a new technology which enables developers to construct accessible controls within (X)HTML pages. Developers have been doing this for some time, but the resulting controls were never as accessible as similar controls in desktop applications. Assistive technologies could only see the generic HTML markup used to build the control; they had no way of knowing that a particular collection of div and span elements should be treated as a single cohesive control (such as a tab bar or a treeview).
1153 Deprecated and defunct markup Reference, XUL
{many elements on this page are wrongly marked as deprecated, this page needs review}
1154 Dynamically modifying XUL-based user interface Add-ons, DOM, Extensions, XUL
This article discusses manipulating XUL interfaces, using DOM and other APIs. It explains the concept of DOM documents, demonstrates a few simple examples of using DOM calls to perform basic manipulations on a document, and then demonstrates working with anonymous XBL content using Mozilla-specific methods.
1155 FileGuide
See IO
1156 Accessing Files
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1157 Getting File Information
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1158 IO
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1159 Moving, Copying and Deleting Files
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1160 Reading from Files
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1161 TOC
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1162 Uploading and Downloading Files
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1163 Working With Directories
File and Stream Guide: [ nsIScriptableIO | Accessing Files | Getting File Information | Reading from Files | Writing to Files | Moving, Copying and Deleting Files | Uploading and Downloading Files | Working With Directories ]
1164 Writing to Files
To write to a file, an output stream is used. An output stream is an object which can be used to write bytes, strings and other values to a file. To create an output stream, use nsIScriptableIO.newOutputStream(). This method has a number of options to specify text or binary writing, the character set, and whether to append to an existing file or create a new one.
1165 How to Quit a XUL Application XUL, XULRunner
Script can attempt to quit a XUL application, or force the application to quit, using the nsIAppStartup interface.
1166 How to implement a custom XUL query processor component
XUL supports templating to create a block of content from a datasource query. The XUL Template Guide has lots of detailed information on using XUL templates. XUL provides template query processors for RDF, XML and SQL (mozStorage). The templating system also supports building custom query processors. Custom query processors are XPCOM components, must implement the nsIXULTemplateQueryProcessor interface and follow some conventions for when registering the component.
1167 Index
Found 1218 pages:
1168 International characters in XUL JavaScript Firefox, Gecko, Guide, Internationalization, JavaScript, Mozilla, XPCOM, XUL
Gecko 1.8, as used in Firefox 1.5 and other applications, added support for non-ASCII characters in JavaScript files loaded from XUL files.
1169 Introduction to XUL Guide, XUL
Mozilla has configurable, downloadable chrome, meaning that the arrangement and even presence or absence of controls in the main window is not hardwired into the application, but loaded from a separate UI description. In fact, most of Mozilla's windows (and dialogs) will be described using this mechanism. XUL (pronounced "zool," as if that spelling helped any, and short for "XML User Interface Language") is our name for the language in which these UI descriptions are built.
1170 List of commands XUL
The following lists commands which might be usable by <command> or command dispatchers/controllers.
1171 Menus Add-ons, Extensions, NeedsContent, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL
An extension will often wish to attach a new command to a menu. To do this, the new menu will need to be laid over the existing menu which the item should be displayed upon. For more information about how to use an overlay to modify a menu, see Using Menus and Popups in Extensions
1172 Methods XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1173 acceptDialog XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1174 addItemToSelection XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1175 addPane XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1176 addProgressListener XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1177 addSession XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1178 addTab Method, Mozilla, Reference, XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1179 addTabsProgressListener
No summary!
1180 advance XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1181 advanceSelectedTab XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1182 appendCustomToolbar XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1183 appendGroup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1184 appendItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1185 appendNotification XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1186 blur XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1187 cancel XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1188 cancelDialog XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1189 centerWindowOnScreen XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1190 checkAdjacentElement XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1191 clearResults NeedsContent, NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1192 clearSelection XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1193 click XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1194 close XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1195 collapseToolbar XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1196 contains XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1197 decrease XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1198 decreasePage XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1199 doCommand XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1200 ensureElementIsVisible XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1201 ensureIndexIsVisible XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1202 ensureSelectedElementIsVisible XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1203 expandToolbar XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1204 extra1 XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1205 extra2 XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1206 focus XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1207 getBrowserAtIndex XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1208 getBrowserForDocument Method, Mozilla, Reference, XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1209 getBrowserForTab XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1210 getBrowserIndexForDocument XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1211 getButton XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1212 getDefaultSession XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1213 getEditor XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1214 getElementsByAttribute XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1215 getElementsByAttributeNS XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1216 getFormattedString XUL Methods, XUL Reference
If you need to handle substitutions involving plurals, take a look at Localization and Plurals.
1217 getHTMLEditor XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1218 getIcon XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1219 getIndexOfFirstVisibleRow XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1220 getIndexOfItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1221 getItemAtIndex XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1222 getNextItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1223 getNotificationBox XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1224 getNotificationWithValue XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1225 getNumberOfVisibleRows XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1226 getPageById XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1227 getPreviousItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1228 getResultAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1229 getResultCount NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1230 getResultValueAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1231 getRowCount XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1232 getSearchAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1233 getSelectedItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1234 getSession XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1235 getSessionByName XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1236 getSessionResultAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1237 getSessionStatusAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1238 getSessionValueAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1239 getString XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1240 getTabForBrowser Method, Mozilla, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1241 getTabModalPromptBox XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1242 goBack XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1243 goBackGroup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1244 goDown XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1245 goForward XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1246 goForwardGroup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1247 goHome XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1248 goTo XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1249 goUp XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1250 gotoIndex XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1251 hasUserValue XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1252 hidePopup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1253 increase XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1254 increasePage XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1255 insertItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
The id should match an element in the toolbar's toolbarpalette. Some special ids may also be used to create special spacing items:
1256 insertItemAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1257 invertSelection XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1258 loadGroup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1259 loadOneTab Method, Mozilla, Reference, XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1260 loadTabs XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1261 loadURI XUL Methods, XUL Reference
NOTE: This is the XUL method on <browser> / <tabbrowser>, not the global function in chrome://browser/content/browser.js. Please check which one you're documenting! (This one has no post data parameter, see loadURIWithFlags for a version that does)
1262 loadURIWithFlags XUL Methods, XUL Reference
(See nsIWebNavigation.loadURI() for details on the referrer and postData parameters.)
1263 makeEditable XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1264 menulist.appendItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1265 menulist.select XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1266 moveByOffset XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1267 moveTabTo XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1268 moveTo XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1269 moveToAlertPosition XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1270 onFindAgainCommand
No summary!
1271 onSearchComplete NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1272 onTextEntered NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1273 onTextReverted NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1274 open
No summary!
1275 openPopup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
Opens the popup relative to a specified node at a specific location.
1276 openPopupAtScreen XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1277 openSubDialog XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1278 openWindow XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1279 pinTab XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
1280 preferenceForElement XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1281 reload XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1282 reloadAllTabs XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1283 reloadTab XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1284 reloadWithFlags XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1285 removeAllItems XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1286 removeAllNotifications XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1287 removeAllTabsBut XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1288 removeCurrentNotification XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1289 removeCurrentTab XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1290 removeItemAt XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1291 removeItemFromSelection XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1292 removeNotification XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1293 removeProgressListener XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1294 removeSession NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1295 removeTab XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1296 removeTabsProgressListener XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1297 removeTransientNotifications XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1298 replaceGroup XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1299 reset XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1300 rewind XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1301 scrollByIndex XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1302 scrollByPixels XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1303 scrollToIndex XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1304 select XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1305 selectAll XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1306 selectItem XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1307 selectItemRange XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1308 selectTabAtIndex Method, Reference, XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1309 setIcon XUL, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1310 setSelectionRange XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1311 showOnlyTheseTabs Method, Reference, XUL
No summary!
1312 showPane XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1313 showPopup NeedsHelp, NeedsRewrite, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1314 sizeTo XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1315 startEditing XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1316 startFind
No summary!
1317 stop XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1318 stopEditing XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1319 swapDocShells XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1320 syncSessions NeedsHelp, XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1321 timedSelect XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1322 toggleHighlight
No summary!
1323 toggleItemSelection XUL Methods, XUL Reference
No summary!
1324 unpinTab XUL, XUL Attribute, XUL Reference
No summary!
1325 Namespaces Add-ons, Extensions
No summary!
1326 Node
This is a scriptable interface corresponding to the nsIDOMNode XPCOM interface.
1327 Other Resources XUL
No summary!
1328 Popup Guide XUL, XUL Popup Guide
No summary!
1329 ContextMenus XUL, XUL Popup Guide
A context menu is a menu where the items on the menu are specific to the context in which the menu was opened. A typical usage is for the user to right-click on an element to display a menu of commands pertaining to what was clicked on.
1330 Extensions XUL, XUL Popup Guide
The main menu bar in Firefox has the id 'main-menubar'. To add a new menu onto the main application menubar, you will need to overlay this menubar. For instance:
1331 Floating Panels
A floating panel is used for secondary popups such as tool palettes and property inspector panels. It will have a titlebar which the user may use to move the panel around on the screen. A floating panel can be created using the panel element with at least two additional attributes as in the following example:
1332 MenuButtons XUL, XUL Popup Guide
Menus may be attached to buttons in several ways. Both the button and the toolbar button elements support two special types used for creating menu buttons.
1333 MenuItems XUL, XUL Popup Guide
The menuitem element has a number of features beyond just being a label for a menu command.
1334 MenuModification XUL, XUL Popup Guide
Menus have a number of methods which may be used to add and remove items.
1335 Menus XUL, XUL Popup Guide
A menu provides a list of commands that the user can carry out.
1336 MoveResize XUL, XUL Popup Guide
No summary!
1337 OpenClose XUL, XUL Popup Guide
Popups and menus may be opened and closed by a script.
1338 Panels XUL, XUL Popup Guide
A panel is a popup which can support any type of content. It is used when supporting temporary popup displays for selecting or entering data.
1339 PopupEvents XUL, XUL Popup Guide
There are several events related to popups and menus.
1340 PopupKeys XUL, XUL Popup Guide
When using a menupopup element, a keyboard listener is attached to the window that will handle keypresses for the menu. This allows items within the menu to be navigated with the cursor keys. The following table lists the keys that are checked, and what the menu keyboard listener does in response:
1341 Positioning XUL, XUL Popup Guide
There are several ways in which the location of a popup on screen may be controlled.
1342 Special per-platform menu considerations Beginner, Guide, XUL, XUL Popup Guide
For many menu commands, convention dictates where these items will be placed. For instance, the Edit menu always starts with the Undo command if such a feature is available in the application, followed by Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and so forth.
1343 Tooltips XUL, XUL Popup Guide
A tooltip is used to provide descriptive help to the user about the control that the mouse is over. For instance, moving the mouse over top of a toolbar button and waiting for a second can display a small popup label containing text describing the button's function. When the mouse is moved again, the tooltip disappears. This is a useful means of providing additional details about a user interface without cluttering up the main interface.
1344 Printing from a XUL App Guide, NeedsContent, XUL
This document will talk about PrintUtils, and the ways that XUL applications can trigger print-related behaviors.
1345 Property XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1346 accessKey XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1347 accessible XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1348 accessibleType XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1349 align XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1350 allNotifications XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1351 allowEvents XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1352 alwaysOpenPopup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1353 amIndicator XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1354 anchorNode XUL, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1355 appLocale XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1356 autoCheck XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1357 autoFill XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1358 autoFillAfterMatch XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1359 boxObject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1360 browser
No summary!
1361 browser.preferences XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1362 browsers XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1363 builder XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1364 builderView XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1365 buttons XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1366 canAdvance XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1367 canGoBack XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1368 canGoForward XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1369 canRewind XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1370 checkState XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1371 checked XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1372 child XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1373 children XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1374 className XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1375 clickSelectsAll XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1376 collapsed XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1377 color NeedsContent, NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1378 colorpicker.open XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1379 columns XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1380 command XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1381 commandManager XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1382 completeDefaultIndex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1383 container XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1384 contentDocument XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1385 contentPrincipal XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1386 contentTitle XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1387 contentView XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1388 contentViewerEdit XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1389 contentViewerFile XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1390 contentWindow XUL Reference
No summary!
1391 contextMenu XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1392 control XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1393 controller XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1394 controllers XUL Properties, XUL Reference, commands, controllers
No summary!
1395 crop XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1396 current XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1397 currentIndex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1398 currentItem XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1399 currentNotification XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1400 currentPage XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1401 currentPane XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1402 currentSet NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1403 currentURI XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1404 customToolbarCount NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1405 database XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1406 datasources XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1407 date XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1408 dateLeadingZero XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1409 dateValue XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1410 datepicker.open XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1411 datepicker.value XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1412 decimalPlaces XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1413 decimalSymbol XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1414 deck.selectedPanel XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1415 defaultButton XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1416 defaultValue XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1417 description XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1418 dir XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1419 disableAutocomplete XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1420 disableKeyNavigation NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1421 disableautoselect XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1422 disabled XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1423 dlgType XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1424 docShell XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1425 documentCharsetInfo XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1426 editable XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1427 editingColumn XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1428 editingRow XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1429 editingSession XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1430 editor XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1431 editortype XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1432 emptyText XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1433 enableColumnDrag XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1434 eventNode XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1435 externalToolbars Toolbars, XUL, XUL Reference
No summary!
1436 findMode
No summary!
1437 firstOrdinalColumn XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1438 firstPermanentChild XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1439 flex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1440 flexGroup
No summary!
1441 focused XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1442 focusedItem XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1443 forceComplete XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1444 group XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1445 handleCtrlPageUpDown XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1446 handleCtrlTab XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1447 hasUserValue
No summary!
1448 height XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1449 hidden XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1450 hideSeconds XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1451 highlightNonMatches XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1452 homePage XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1453 hour XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1454 hourLeadingZero XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1455 id XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1456 ignoreBlurWhileSearching XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1457 image XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1458 increment XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1459 inputField XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1460 instantApply
No summary!
1461 inverted XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1462 is24HourClock XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1463 isPM XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1464 isSearching XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1465 isWaiting XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1466 itemCount XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1467 label XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1468 labelElement XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1469 lastPermanentChild XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1470 lastSelected NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1471 left XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1472 linkedPanel XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1473 listBoxObject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1474 listbox.currentIndex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1475 locked XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1476 markupDocumentViewer XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1477 max XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1478 maxHeight XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1479 maxLength XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1480 maxRows XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1481 maxWidth XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1482 menu XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1483 menu.open XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1484 menuBoxObject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1485 menuitem.control XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1486 menulist.image XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1487 menulist.inputField XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1488 menupopup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1490 min XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1491 minHeight XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1492 minResultsForPopup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1493 minWidth XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1494 minute XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1495 minuteLeadingZero XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1496 mode XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1497 month XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1498 monthLeadingZero XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1499 name Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1500 next XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1501 noMatch XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1502 notificationsHidden XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1503 object XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1504 observes XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1505 onFirstPage XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1506 onLastPage XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1507 open XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1508 ordinal XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1509 orient XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1510 pack XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1511 pageCount XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1512 pageIncrement XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1513 pageIndex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1514 pageStep XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1515 pageid XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1516 palette XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1517 parentContainer XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1518 persist XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1519 persistence XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1520 placeholder XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1521 pmIndicator XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1522 popup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1523 popupBoxObject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1524 popupOpen XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1525 position XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1526 predicate XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1527 preference.preferences XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1528 preferenceElements XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1529 preferencePanes XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1530 preferences XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1531 prefpane.preferences XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1532 priority XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1533 radio.control XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1534 radioGroup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1535 readOnly XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1536 ref XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1537 resource XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1538 resultsPopup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1539 richlistitem.label XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1540 scrollBoxObject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1541 scrollIncrement XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1542 searchButton XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1543 searchCount XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1544 searchLabel XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1545 searchParam XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1546 searchSessions NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1547 second XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1548 secondLeadingZero XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1549 securityUI XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1550 selType NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1551 selected XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1552 selectedBrowser XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1553 selectedCount XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1554 selectedIndex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1555 selectedItem XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1556 selectedItems XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1557 selectedPanel XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1558 selectedTab XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1559 selectionEnd XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1560 selectionStart XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1561 selstyle XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1562 sessionCount XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1563 sessionHistory XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1564 showCommentColumn XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1565 showImageColumn XUL, XUL Properties, XUL Reference, popup
No summary!
1566 showPopup XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1567 size XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1568 smoothScroll XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1569 spinButtons XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1570 src XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1571 state XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1572 statusText XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1573 statusbar XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1574 stringBundle XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1575 strings XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1576 style XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1577 subject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1578 suppressOnSelect XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1579 tab.control XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1580 tabContainer XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1581 tabIndex XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1582 tabScrolling XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1583 tabbox XUL, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1584 tabbox.tabs XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1585 tabbrowser.tabs XUL, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1586 tabpanels XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1587 tabs XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1588 tag XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1589 textLength XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1590 textValue XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1591 textbox.label XUL, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1592 textbox.type XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1593 textbox.value XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1594 timeout XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1595 timepicker.value XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1596 title XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1597 toolbarName NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1598 toolbarset XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1599 toolboxid Toolbars, XUL, XUL Reference
No summary!
1600 tooltip XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1601 tooltipText XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1602 top XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1603 tree.inputField XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1604 treeBoxObject XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1605 triggerNode XUL, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1606 type XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1607 uri XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1608 userAction XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1609 value XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1610 valueNumber XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1611 view XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1612 visibleTabs Gecko 2.0, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1613 webBrowserFind XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1614 webNavigation NeedsHelp, XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1615 webProgress XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1616 width XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1617 wizardPages XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1618 wrapAround XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1619 year XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1620 yearLeadingZero XUL Properties, XUL Reference
No summary!
1621 Providing Command-Line Options Add-ons, Command Line, Extensions, Guide, XULRunner
Extensions and XUL applications can modify the way command line parameters are handled by writing a component that implements the nsICommandLineHandler interface and registering it in a category.
1622 Notes
No summary!
1623 Sorting and filtering a custom tree view
This is example code for sorting and filtering a custom tree view, that is, a tree whose values are loaded via JavaScript. This will not work for other types of trees, for example RDF-backed or ones created with DOM methods.
1624 Style classes XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1625 alert-icon XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1626 chromeclass-toolbar XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1627 error-icon XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1628 groove XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1629 groove-thin XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1630 header XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1631 indent XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1632 listcell-iconic XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1633 listitem-iconic XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1634 menu-iconic XUL, XUL Reference
No summary!
1635 menuitem-iconic XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1636 menuitem-non-iconic XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1637 message-icon XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1638 monospace XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1639 plain XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1640 question-icon XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1641 small-margin XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1642 statusbarpanel-iconic XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1643 statusbarpanel-iconic-text XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1644 statusbarpanel-menu-iconic XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1645 text-link XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1646 thin XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1647 tree-splitter XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1648 treecol-image XUL Reference, XUL_Style_classes
No summary!
1649 Template Guide XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
Basics of XUL Templates
1650 Actions XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
The content to generate in a template is specified using the <xul:action> element which should either be the next sibling of the <xul:query> element (if no rules need be specified) or be a direct child of a <xul:rule> element. The content to generate goes directly inside the action element. This content will be copied for each matching result (though see below for an exception) and inserted into the document. Let's look at a simple example first.
1651 Additional Navigation XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
The triples used so far have all had variables in both the subject and object. However, a string value may be used instead. Since the subject of an RDF arc is always a resource, the subject may be a resource URI. The object attribute may be a resource URI or a literal value. Using a literal as the object of a triple is a common way to filter out specific items. For instance, if items were identified with a type, the data could be filtered to include only items of a particular type.
1652 Additional Template Attributes XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
All the templates used so far have had the template placed inside the root element with the datasources attribute. However, you may use the template attribute to refer to a template located elsewhere within the document. This allows you to share the same template among two different parts of the user interface. To use this technique, place a template attribute on the root element set to the id of a template.
1653 Attribute Substitution XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
The effect will be that the ?name part of the attribute will be replaced by the value of the variable ?name. For instance, if the value of ?name is 'Jake', then the attribute value will be 'My name is Jake'. You can include multiple variables in one attribute if desired:
1654 Bindings XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
We can add more triples to the previous example to show more information. For example, a description could be added to a photo. To do this all we need to do is add the necessary data to the RDF datasource and add another <triple> element to the template's statements.
1655 Building Hierarchical Trees XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1656 Building Menus With Templates XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
Menus may be generated using a template in the same manner as other elements. However, unlike with other elements, the content of a menu is only generated once the menu has been opened. This means that a menu created with a template will not have any of the generated items until the user opens the menu, or a script opens the menu. This applies to menus on menubars, submenus, as well as menu-type buttons such as those with a type attribute set to menu. This allows for better performance as the entire content of a complex menu does not need to be created until the user needs to use the menu.
1657 Building Trees XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
The most common element to use with a template is the tree.
1658 Containment Properties
Let's look back at the very first example again. It doesn't have any containers, but we may want to iterate over the relatedItem predicate using the simple query syntax. We can add the containment attribute to do this.
1659 Filtering XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1660 Introduction XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
Each template retrieves its data from a datasource. Several types of datasources are supported by default, RDF, XML and SQLite databases, however, processors may be written to support other types of datasources. In XUL, the datasource is specified by placing the datasources attribute on an element. Typically, the value will be a URI that identifies the location of the data. For example, for an XML datasource, the URL of an XML file is specified. When the XUL parser sees an element with this attribute, it constructs a template builder for the element and attaches it to the element. It is expected that there will be a template inside the element. The template builder loads the datasource, performs a query on the datasource and generates content based on the results in combination with the template. The type of datasource is specified with the querytype attribute. The type affects how the datasource is used as well as the syntax for specifying queries.
1661 Multiple Queries XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1662 Multiple Rule Example XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1663 Multiple Rules XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1664 Namespaces
XML Namespaces can be used in XUL Templates by binding the namespace URI and prefix to the template element. For example using the following XML document containing a list of people:
1665 RDF Modifications XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1666 RDF Query Syntax XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
Let's look at a simple query with two statements. Each statement is placed as a direct child of the <query> element within the template.
1667 Recursive Generation XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
After generating content, the template builder always repeats the generation for inner levels as far as it can go. Thus, the builder can be said to generate content from the graph recursively. After generating a result's content, the builder starts again using a new parent and starting point. Naturally, the parent will be the new result's content, rather than the outer containing element, and the starting point will be the endpoint of the previous iteration. For the top level generation the parent insertion point is the element with the datasources attribute, in this example a <vbox>. For nested results, the insertion point is the generated element. Here is the content that was generated after one iteration:
1668 Result Generation XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
In this section, we'll look at generating template output using RDF datasources. First, however, some background.
1669 Rule Compilation XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
A XUL template is made up of a query and a series of rules. A query contains instructions for how to retrieve a set of data from the datasource. The exact syntax is dependent on the type of datasource used in the template. For instance, for an SQLite datasource, an SQL statement is used as the query. This will return a table of result records which are then used to generate output. For RDF and XML, the query contains a set of instructions for navigating through the RDF graph or XML document tree. A query is declared with the query tag (new to FF3; FF2 only worked with RDF datasources and had no query tag), which you would place directly inside the <template>. The job of the query is to generate a set of output results.
1670 SQLite Templates XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1671 Simple Example XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1672 Simple Query Syntax XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1673 Sorting Results XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
When results are generated from a query, content is generated in the same order as the results. For an XML datasource, generated content will be output in the order corresponding to the results of the XPath query expression. For an Sqlite datasource, the generated content corresponds to the order of results of the SQL query. For an RDF datasource, again, the results are in the order the query generates them, although except in the case of an RDF Seq, this order is arbitrary as RDF triples don't occur in any particular order. When the reference node is an RDF Seq container and the results are in that container, however, the template builder orders the results in the order the items appear in the Seq. For instance, the photos are listed in the same order in this example as they appear in the Seq in the datasource.
1674 Special Condition Tests XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
There are several additional types of conditional tests that may be performed.
1675 Static Content XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1676 Template Builder Interface XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
When inserting an element into a XUL document, the element is checked to see if it has a datasources attribute. If so, a template builder will be created for the element and attached to the element. If the element is a <tree> element and has the flags attribute set to "dont-build-content", a tree builder will be created. Otherwise, a content builder will be created. Both types of builder share much of the same code except for how they generate output to be displayed. Both types of builders implement the nsIXULTemplateBuilder interface, while the tree builder also implements the nsIXULTreeBuilder interface.
1677 Template Logging
Debugging problems with a template can be difficult as many problems are logic errors that are often not possible to determine automatically. For example, if you spell a value wrong, no data may be returned, but the template system won't know that that this was because of a spelling error, or simply that there shouldn't be any data anyway. Fortunately, some debugging and logging support is provided with templates that may help.
1678 Template and Tree Listeners XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
There are several listeners (or observers) used during the template build process, each used for different purposes. These each implement a different XPCOM interface, as listed below:
1679 Using Multiple Queries to Generate More Results XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1680 Using Recursive Templates XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
You may recall that templates generate content recursively. After the data is generated, each result is used as the new reference point for a nested iteration of the template. This is usually used to generate content in a tree or menu. Both the RDF and XML datasource types support recursion. For example, using this XML datasource:
1681 XML Assignments XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
No summary!
1682 XML Templates XUL, XUL_Template_Guide
Mozilla also supports the use of XML datasources. An XML document will be loaded and XPath expressions may be used to take portions of the XML document and generate content from these. When an XML source is desired, specify a querytype attribute on the root node of the template to the value xml. This indicates to the template builder that an XML source is being used as that the queries use syntax that is specific to XML.
1683 Textbox (XPFE autocomplete) XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is created by setting the type attribute of a textbox to autocomplete. It is used to create a textbox with a popup containing a list of possible completions for what the user has started to type.
1684 The Joy of XUL Guide, Mozilla, XPCOM, XPConnect, XUL
This guide is designed to introduce application developers and their managers to XUL so they can not only understand why Mozilla's platform is based on it, but how they might adopt it for their own use. XUL (pronounced "zool") is Mozilla's XML-based user interface language that lets you build feature rich cross-platform applications that can run connected to or disconnected from the Internet. These applications are easily customized with alternative text, graphics, and layout so they can be readily branded or localized for various markets. Web developers already familiar with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) will learn XUL quickly and can start building applications right away.
1685 Things I've tried to do with XUL XUL
This is a grab-bag type of FAQ, with a list of things that should work (hopefully with bug numbers), things that don't work (hopefully with explanations), and workarounds for both of the above. Feel free to add your own XUL experiences here.
1686 Toolbars
Toolbars, implemented using the XUL toolbar element, are containers for toolbar buttons and other user interface objects. The following articles provide details about implementing and working with toolbars.
1687 Creating toolbar buttons (Customize Toolbar Window) Add-ons, Extensions, Firefox 3, Toolbars, XUL
This article explains how to add a toolbar button to a Toolkit application (such as Firefox, Thunderbird, or Kompozer) using overlays. Its intended audience is extension developers with a basic knowledge of XUL and CSS.
1688 Custom toolbar button Add-ons, Extensions, SeaMonkey, Toolbars, XUL, thunderbird
This page tells you step-by-step how to make a custom toolbar button in Firefox, SeaMonkey 2.0, Thunderbird or Sunbird. (For SeaMonkey 1.x, see the page Custom Toolbar Button:SeaMonkey.)
1689 Code Samples Add-ons, Extensions
This page contains sample code that you can use with the Custom Toolbar Button tutorial.
1690 Complete
This page is for readers who have followed the Custom Toolbar Button tutorial for Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird, or the Custom Toolbar Button:SeaMonkey tutorial for SeaMonkey, and who want to learn more about developing extensions.
1691 SeaMonkey - making custom toolbar (SM ver. 1.x) Add-ons, Extensions, SeaMonkey
This page tells you step-by-step how to make a custom toolbar button in SeaMonkey 1.x. (For SeaMonkey 2, Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird, see the page: Custom Toolbar Button)
1692 Toolbar customization events Toolbars, XUL
When toolbars are customized, events are sent to their parent window. You can use window.addEventListener() to listen for these events in order to keep abreast of changes to toolbars.
1693 Tree Widget Changes XUL
This describes changes in XUL Trees API for Gecko 1.8.
1694 Urlbar-icons XUL Reference, XUL_Element
The location of UI elements like the bookmarks, feed and go buttons. Create new image or button child elements to add your own items.
1695 Using Remote XUL XUL
XUL (pronounced like "zool"), which is short for XML-based User Interface Language, is an XML-based language for describing application interfaces. It contains elements for all common UI widgets (menus, buttons, toolbars, etc.) and many sophisticated ones (trees, browsers, color pickers).
1696 Using Visual Studio as your XUL IDE
Compared to a simple text-editor, Visual Studio gives you some special features when writing XUL:
1697 Using multiple DTDs Internationalization, Localization, XUL
No summary!
1698 Using nsIXULAppInfo Add-ons, Extensions
Starting with Mozilla/XULRunner 1.8, there now is a way to find out which application, application version, and Gecko version your code is running on.
1699 Using spell checking in XUL Add-ons, Extensions
Spell checking functionality is available starting in Firefox 2. This document describes how to use the mozISpellCheckingEngine component to add spell checking capabilities to your Firefox extension.
1700 Using the Editor from XUL XUL
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. The <iframe> contents are then editable.
1701 Using the standard theme Add-ons, Extensions, Themes
No summary!
1702 Widget Cheatsheet
See the Periodic Table of XUL for more examples.
1703 Window icons Add-ons, Extensions, Toolkit API, XPInstall, XUL
Starting with Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5, and XULRunner 1.8, you can specify an icon for a XUL window by putting files named mywindow.ico (for Windows) and mywindow.xpm or mywindow16.xpm (Linux), where mywindow is the id of the <window> you want to attach the icon to, in the chrome/icons/default subfolder of your bundle.
1704 Writing Skinnable XUL and CSS CSS, XUL
No summary!
1705 XML XUL
No summary!
1706 XUL Accesskey FAQ and Policies XUL
An accesskey is an underlined letter in a web page, menu or dialog that indicates to a user a quick, keyboard method of simulating a click on that element. For example, an Apply button may have the letter A underlined. On Windows and UNIX, pressing ALT+A is a convenient way to push that button. On Macintosh, accesskeys are available only in HTML not in XUL, and they are activated using CTRL+letter instead of ALT.
1707 XUL Changes for Firefox 1.5 XUL
This lists the most notable changes to XUL in Firefox 1.5 (Gecko 1.8). For other changes you should be aware of, see Adapting XUL Applications for Firefox 1.5.
1708 XUL Coding Style Guidelines XUL
No summary!
1709 XUL Event Propagation DOM, XUL
No summary!
1710 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. The events listeners can be attached using addEventListener and removed using removeEventListener.
1711 CheckboxStateChange Event, events
The CheckboxStateChange event is executed when the state of a <checkbox> element has changed.
1712 DOMMenuItemActive
The DOMMenuItemActive event is executed when a <menu> or a <menuitem> has been hovered or highlighted.
1713 DOMMenuItemInactive
The DOMMenuItemInactive event is executed when a <menu> or a <menuitem> in no longer hovered or highlighted.
1714 RadioStateChange Event, events
The RadioStateChange event is executed when the state of a <radio> element has changed.
1715 ValueChange Event, events
The ValueChange event is executed when the value of an element, <progress> for example, has changed.
1716 broadcast
The broadcast event is executed when the attributes of the element (such as a broadcaster) being listened to are changed. The event handler should be placed on an observer.
1717 close
The close event is executed when a request has been made to close the window when the user presses the close button.
1718 command
The command event is executed when an element is activated.
1719 commandupdate
The commandupdate event is executed when a command update occurs on a <commandset>. This event would be used to update the disabled status of its commands.
1720 popuphidden
The popuphidden event is executed when a <menupopup>, <panel> or <tooltip> has become hidden.
1721 popuphiding
The popuphiding event is executed when a <menupopup>, <panel> or <tooltip> is about to be hidden.
1722 popupshowing
The popupshowing event is executed when a <menupopup>, <panel> or <tooltip> is about to become visible. The default action of the event can be prevented to prevent the popup to appear.
1723 popupshown
The popupshown event is executed when a <menupopup>, <panel> or <tooltip> has become visible.
1724 XUL FAQ XUL
This document contains answers to frequently asked questions about XUL, Mozilla's markup language for describing application's user interface.
1725 XUL Parser in Python/source
Source code for the XUL Parser in Python.
1726 XUL Questions and Answers
Return to mozilla-dev-tech-xul summaries
1727 XUL Reference XUL, XUL Reference
No summary!
1728 XUL element attributes XUL Attributes, XUL Reference
No summary!
1729 XULBrowserWindow NeedsContent, XUL
The XULBrowserWindow object provides methods and properties that let the browser update the user interface of the enclosing XUL window. In order to do so it implements the following interfaces:
1730 XUL Template Primer - Bindings Outdated articles, Outdated_articles, XUL
This document expands on the XUL Template Primer by introducing the <bindings> element in the extended XUL template syntax.
1731 XUL Tutorial Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This tutorial describes XUL, the XML User-interface Language. This language was created for the Mozilla application and is used to describe its user interface.
1732 Accesskey display rules Localization
Each controls of XUL can have an accesskey which is specified by accesskey attribute or accessKey property (See accesskey attribute document for the detail). XUL elements display their accesskeys in their label automatically if it's necessary. This document describes the rules of generating a label text.
1733 Adding Buttons Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we will look at how to add some simple buttons to a window.
1734 Adding Event Handlers Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The find files dialog so far looks quite good. We haven't cleaned it up much but we have created a simple user interface easily. Next, we will show how to add scripts to it.
1735 Adding Event Handlers to XBL-defined Elements Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
Next, we'll find out how to add event handlers to XBL-defined elements.
1736 Adding HTML Elements Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
Now that we've added some buttons, let's add some other elements.
1737 Adding Labels and Images Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes a way to add labels and images to a window. In addition, we look at how to include elements into groups.
1738 Adding Methods to XBL-defined Elements Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1739 Adding Properties to XBL-defined Elements Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
Next, we'll find out how to add custom properties to XBL-defined elements.
1740 Adding Style Sheets Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
We have hardly modified the look of the elements we have created so far. XUL uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to customize elements.
1741 Adding more elements Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
We will conclude the discussion of boxes by adding some boxes to the find files dialog.
1742 Additional Install Features Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes some more specifics of installers.
1743 Advanced Rules Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes the more advanced rule syntax.
1744 Anonymous Content Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section we'll look at creating content with XBL.
1745 Box Model Details Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
We've seen a lot of features of the box model. Here, we'll find out some more details with some examples.
1746 Box Objects Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes the box object, which holds display and layout related information about a XUL box as well as some details about XUL layout.
1747 Broadcasters and Observers Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
There may be times when you want several elements to respond to events or changes of state easily. To do this, we can use broadcasters.
1748 Commands Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
A command is an operation which may be invoked.
1749 Content Panels Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll look at how to add panels that can display HTML pages or other XUL files.
1750 Creating Dialogs Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
A XUL application will often require dialogs to be displayed. This section describes how one might construct them.
1751 Creating a Skin Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes how to create a simple skin. For simplicity, we'll only apply it to the find files dialog.
1752 Creating a Window Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
We're going to be creating a simple find files utility throughout this tutorial.
1753 Creating a Wizard Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
Many applications use wizards to help the user through complex tasks. XUL provides a way to create wizards easily.
1754 Creating an Installer Tutorials, XPInstall_API_reference, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section will describe packaging a XUL application into an installer.
1755 Cross Package Overlays Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes how to apply overlays to files that don't import them.
1756 Custom Tree Views Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The tree view holds the data to be displayed in the tree.
1757 Document Object Model DOM, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The Document Object Model (DOM) can be used with XUL elements to get information about them or modify them.
1758 Element Positioning Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
Here we'll look at controlling the position and size of an element.
1759 Features of a Window Guide, Tutorials, XUL, XUL Tutorial
No summary!
1760 Focus and Selection Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The section will describe how to handle the focus and selection of elements.
1761 Grids Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
XUL has a set of elements for creating tabular grids.
1762 Groupboxes Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes a way to include elements into groups
1763 Input Controls Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
XUL has elements that are similar to the HTML form controls.
1764 Install Scripts Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes the install script.
1765 Introduction Tutorials, XUL, XUL Tutorial
This tutorial is a guide to learning XUL (XML User Interface Language) which is a cross-platform language for describing applications' user interfaces.
1766 Introduction to RDF RDF, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1767 Introduction to XBL Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1768 Keyboard Shortcuts Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
You could use keyboard event handlers to respond to the keyboard. However, it would be tedious to do that for every button and menu item (though it could be necessary when one's key commands are only triggered when the user is focused on a particular element).
1769 List Controls Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
XUL has a number of types of elements for creating list boxes.
1770 Localization Internationalization, Localization, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
XUL and XML provide entities which are a convenient way of allowing localization.
1771 Manifest Files NeedsUpdate, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll see how to put chrome and XUL files into a package and create the manifest files for them.
1772 Manipulating Lists Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The XUL listbox provides a number of specialized methods.
1773 Modifying a XUL Interface DOM, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The DOM provides various functions to modify the document.
1774 Modifying the Default Skin Customization, Firefox, Intermediate, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1775 More Button Features Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we will look at some additional features of buttons.
1776 More Event Handlers Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, the event object is examined and additional events are described.
1777 More Menu Features Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll look at creating submenus and checked menus
1778 More Tree Features Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
Here, we'll see more features of trees.
1779 More Wizards Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section describes some additional features of wizards.
1780 Numeric Controls Firefox 3, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
XUL has two elements used for the entry of numeric values or ranges, and well as two elements for entering dates and times. These elements are only available in Firefox 3 and later.
1781 Open and Save Dialogs Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
A common type of dialog is one where the user can select a file to open or save.
1782 Persistent Data Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1783 Popup Menus Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In the last section, we looked at creating a menu on a menu bar. XUL also has the capability of creating popup menus. Popup menus are typically displayed when the user presses the right mouse button.
1784 Progress Meters Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll look at creating progress meters.
1785 Property Files Internationalization, Localization, Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1786 RDF Datasources Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1787 Scroll Bars
Now, let's find out to add scroll bars to a window.
1788 Scrolling Menus Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section will describe scrolling menus and how to use the mechanism with other elements.
1789 Simple Menu Bars Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll see how to create a menu bar with menus on it.
1790 Skinning XUL Files by Hand XUL
No summary!
1791 Splitters Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
We'll now look at how to add splitters to a window.
1792 Stack Positioning Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section will describe how to position items in a stack.
1793 Stacks and Decks Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
There may be need to display elements as a set of overlapping cards. The stack and deck elements can be used for this purpose.
1794 Styling a Tree Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The following describes how to style a tree.
1795 Tabboxes Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
It is common in preference dialogs for tabbed pages to appear. We'll find out how to create them here.
1796 Templates Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll find out how to populate elements with data.
1797 The Box Model Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we'll look at how XUL handles layout.
1798 The Chrome URL Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The following section will describe how to refer to XUL documents and other chrome files.
1799 Toolbars Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
A toolbar is usually placed along the top of a window and contains a number of buttons that perform common functions. XUL has a method to create toolbars.
1800 Tree Box Objects Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section will describe the tree box object used to handle how a tree is displayed.
1801 Tree Selection Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1802 Tree View Details Tutorials, XUL, XUL Tutorial
This section will describe some more features of tree views.
1803 Trees Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
XUL provides a way to create tabular or hierarchical lists using a tree.
1804 Trees and Templates Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
The following describes how to use a template with a tree.
1805 Updating Commands Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we will look at how to update commands.
1806 Using Spacers Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
In this section, we will find out how to add some spacing in between the elements we have created.
1807 XBL Attribute Inheritance Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1808 XBL Example Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section will describe an example XBL element.
1809 XBL Inheritance Tutorials, XBL, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1810 XPCOM Examples Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
This section provides some examples of using XPCOM along with some additional interfaces.
1811 XPCOM Interfaces Tutorials, XPCOM:Language Bindings, XPConnect, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
No summary!
1812 XUL Structure Tutorials, XUL, XUL_Tutorial
We'll begin by looking at how the XUL is handled in Mozilla.
1813 XUL accessibility guidelines Accessibility, XUL
Welcome to the XUL Accessibility Guidelines. By following these principles and practices, you will be able to write your XUL applications in such a way that all users, including those with physical, sensory, or communicative disabilities, with be able to use and enjoy them. Accessibility is not difficult, but does require a basic understanding of the different types of disabilities, commonly used assistive technologies, and special accessibility features built into the XUL languages. Most of all, accessibility requires a conscious effort on your part, and a desire to include everyone.
1814 XUL accessibility tool Accessibility
The XUL Accessibility Tool is a Firefox extension designed by Aaron Andersen of WebAIM as part of a Mozilla Foundation accessibility minigrant in the spring of 2007. It is designed to test (insofar as automated testing is possible) the guidelines and requirement for creating accessible XUL as set forth in the XUL accessibility guidelines, and to report on any problems found in tested documents. While not meant to be a comprehensive test suite (meaning that passing all included tests does not guarantee that an application is free of accessibility bugs or issues), many of the most common accessibility mistakes will be found and reported.
1815 XUL and RDF
This page was auto-generated because a user created a sub-page to this page.
1816 The Implementation of the Application Object Model Outdated_articles
Purpose - The purpose of this document is two-fold. The first section of the document describes the motivation and reasoning behind using RDF as the foundation of XUL. This section makes a technical argument both for having XUL in the first place and for using RDF as the underlying implementation of XUL's content model. The second section describes the XUL/RDF architecture itself and outlines enhancements to the XUL language in order to allow the markup language to reference local data and to indicate how and when it would like to be annotatable with local data.
1817 XUL controls NeedsUpdate, Reference, XUL
The following table lists the XUL user interface controls. For a step-by-step guide on how to use these controls, see the XUL Tutorial. For more reference information, see the XUL Reference.
1818 XUL:Property:flexGroup NeedsRelocation, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL, XUL Reference
No summary!
1819 action NeedsExample, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used to specify the content that should be generated for each matching result from a query. The action should be contained within a query or rule element.
1820 appendChild
Node appendChild ( Node newChild )
1821 arrowscrollbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
clicktoscroll, if true, the arrows must be clicked to scroll the scrollbox content.
1822 assign XUL Elements, XUL Reference
For XML templates, specifies an additional variable to assign a value to.
1823 attribute.align
The align attribute specifies how child elements of the box are aligned, when the size of the box is larger than the total size of the children. For boxes that have horizontal orientation, it specifies how its children will be aligned vertically. For boxes that have vertical orientation, it is used to specify how its children are algined horizontally. The pack attribute is related to the alignment but is used to specify the position in the opposite direction. You can also specify the value of align using the style property -moz-box-align.
1824 autohide
No summary!
1825 bbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A horizontal box that is baseline aligned. It is equivalent to using an hbox element with an align attribute set to baseline.
1826 binding NeedsHelp, NeedsTechnicalReview, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Should be contained within a bindings element. A binding is used to bind a variable to a node. Like the triple element in syntax, it can be used to bind a particular property of a matched node to a particular variable name. That name can then be used within the action of a rule.
1827 bindings XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used to specify a set of variable bindings for a rule. This element should be contained within a rule element and contain one or more binding elements. This element is optional in Firefox 3/Mozilla 1.9 and later; instead binding elements may be placed directly inside the rule element.
1828 box XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container element which can contain any number of child elements. If the box has an orient attribute that is set to horizontal, the child elements are laid out from left to right in the order that they appear in the box. If orient is set to vertical, the child elements are laid out from top to bottom. Child elements do not overlap. The default orientation is horizontal.
1829 broadcaster XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A broadcaster is used when you want multiple elements to share one or more attribute values, or when you want elements to respond to a state change. Any elements that are observing the broadcaster will share the attributes placed on the broadcaster. For instance, if the broadcaster has a label attribute, the observers will use that label. If the label changes, the labels of the observers will update automatically. An onbroadcast event will be sent to the observers when a change is made.
1830 broadcasterset XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container element for broadcaster elements. The broadcasterset and its descendants are not displayed.
1831 browser XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A XUL <browser> element represents a frame which is expected to contain a view of a Web document. It is similar to an iframe except that it holds a page history and contains additional methods to manipulate the currently displayed page.Type: one of the values below.The type of browser, which can be used to set access of the document loaded inside the browser.
1832 button XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A button that can be pressed by the user. Event handlers can be used to trap mouse, keyboard and other events. It is typically rendered as a grey outset rectangle. You can specify the label of the button using the label attribute or by placing content inside the button.
1833 caption XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A header for a groupbox. It may contain either a text label, using the label attribute, or child elements for a more complex caption.
1834 checkbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that can be turned on and off. This is most commonly rendered as a box when the element is off and a box with a check when the element is on. The user can switch the state of the check box by selecting it with the mouse. A label, specified with the label attribute, may be added beside the check box.
1835 clicktoscroll Event, Scroll, scrollbar
No summary!
1836 colorpicker XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A palette of colors from which a user may select by clicking on one of the grid cells.
1837 column XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single column in a columns element. Each child of the column element is placed in each successive cell of the grid. The column with the most child elements determines the number of rows in each column.
1838 columns XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Defines the columns of a grid. Child column elements define the individual columns to appear in the grid. The columns element may be nested inside another columns element. Other elements placed inside a columns element occupy the full height of the grid and are placed in their corresponding positions between the columns.
1839 command XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A command element can be used to invoke an operation that can come from multiple sources. For example, a clipboard paste operation can be invoked from the Edit menu, a context menu and by pressing a keyboard shortcut. You attach the code to the command using the oncommand attribute. It will be called no matter how it is invoked by the user. In addition, disabling the command will automatically disable the menu items and keyboard shortcuts.
1840 commandset XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is not displayed and serves as a container for command elements.
1841 conditions XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element should appear directly inside a rule element and is used to define conditions for the rule. Within the conditions can be placed content, member and triple elements. These may have attributes whose value is a variable name beginning with a question mark (?). When evaluating the rule for a particular RDF resource, the variables are replaced with values from the resource. If all variables can be replaced, the rule matched.
1842 content XUL Elements, XUL Reference
ร‰ste elemento deberรญa pertenecer a query ("consulta"). La pregunta en una regla deberรญa enlazar a sรณlo a un elemento del contenido. Los contenidos deberรญan tener al atributo uri . ร‰sto se utiliza para vincular una variable a un nodo de contenido cuando se emparejan. Cuando use un รกrbol con los atributos flags ("banderas"), establezca dont-build-content, ("no almacenar contenido"), use treeitem en su lugar.
1843 datepicker XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A datepicker allows the user to enter a date. Three types are available, which can be specified using the type attribute.
1844 deck XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that displays only one of its children at a time. The selectedIndex attribute determines which child is displayed.
1845 description XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used to create a block of text. The text can be set either with the value attribute or by placing text inside the open and close description tags. The value attribute is used to set text that appears in a single line. If text appears as a child of the description, it will wrap to multiple lines. It may contain arbitrary markup, which can be styled as needed.
1846 dialog XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element should be used in place of the window element for dialog boxes. The buttons attribute may be used to set which buttons should appear in the dialog box. These buttons will be placed in the correct locations for the user's platform.
1847 dialogheader XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A heading row for a dialog box. This element should be placed inside a dialog element. The header may have a title and a description.
1848 dropmarker XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A dropmarker is a button with an arrow which will reveal more details when pressed. A dropmarker is not intended to be used as a separate element, but as part of another element. For instance the menulist and the popup type of datepicker use a dropmarker, that when pressed, will reveal a popup menu.
1849 editor XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A frame which is expected to contain an editable document. Set the value of the editortype attribute to html to create an editor document. Mozilla provides two types of editors, the HTML editor and the plaintext editor. The editor does not provide any editing user interface; you would supply that yourself. However, text editing, image resizing, and table row and cell editing capabilities are provided. If you do not set the editortype attribute on an editor, you must enable editing using the makeEditable method.
1850 elements Landing, XUL
No summary!
1851 findbar XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
In Gecko 1.9, the findbar widget moved into toolkit, so it's available to any XUL application, as well as extensions.
1852 grid XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A grid is a layout type that arranges elements in rows and columns. The grid is expected to contain both a columns element as a child which defines the structure of the columns and a rows element as child to define the rows. The size and attributes defined on columns and rows will affect the size and placement of elements in each cell. Elements placed within both the columns and rows will be displayed, although usually only elements will be placed inside one of these. It is most common to place elements within the rows and use the columns only to define their flexibility and width. Whichever of the columns and rows is last in the grid is displayed on top; commonly the columns element appears in the grid first.
1853 grippy XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that may be used inside a splitter which can be used to collapse a sibling element of the splitter.
1854 groupbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The groupbox is used to group related elements together. If a caption element is placed inside the groupbox, it will be used as a caption which appears along the top of the groupbox. Typically, the groupbox will be drawn with a border around it and the caption either above or over the top border, however the actual appearance will be platform specific. On Linux, for instance, only the caption appears with no border around the group.
1855 hbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container element which can contain any number of child elements. This is equivalent to the box element, except it defaults to horizontal orientation.
1856 iframe Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Type: one of the values below.The type of browser, which can be used to set access of the document loaded inside the browser.
1857 image XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that displays an image, much like the HTML img element. The src attribute can be used to specify the URL of the image.
1858 key Reference, XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The key element defines a window-global keyboard shortcut and must be placed inside a keyset element.
1859 keyset XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container element for key elements. The keyset and its descendants are not displayed.
1860 label XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used to provide a label for a control element. If the user clicks the label, it will move the focus to the associated control, specified with the control attribute.
1861 listbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used to create a list of items where one or more of the items may be selected. A listbox may contain multiple columns. There are numerous methods which allow the items in the listbox to be retrieved and modified.
1862 listcell XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single cell of a listbox. By default it only contains text but iconic and checkbox listcells are also available.
1863 listcol XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A column in a listbox. You can make some columns flexible and other columns non-flexible.
1864 listcols XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container for the columns of a listbox, each of which are created with the listcol element. There should be only one listcols element in a list box. If there is no listcols element, the list box has a single column.
1865 listhead XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A header row of a listbox. It is usual to place listheader elements inside the listhead, one for each column.
1866 listheader XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A header for a single column in a listbox.
1867 listitem XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single row in a listbox. The text of the listitem is specified either using listcell elements, or by placing a label attribute directly on the listitem element. By default it contains a single listcell element of type and class appropriate to that of the listitem.
1868 member XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used within a rule's conditions element to match elements that are containers or are contained within another element. Both the container and child attributes may use variables.
1869 menu XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element, much like a button, that is placed on a menubar. When the user clicks the menu element, the child menupopup of the menu will be displayed. This element is also used to create submenus.
1870 menubar NeedsUpdate, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container that usually contains menu elements. On the Macintosh, the menubar is displayed along the top of the screen, and all non-menu related elements inside the menubar will be ignored. To look native (at least on Windows), the menubar element needs to be placed inside a toolbox element.
1871 menuitem XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single choice in a menupopup element. It acts much like a button but it is rendered on a menu.
1872 menulist XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that can be used for drop-down choice lists. The user may select one of the elements displayed in the menulist. The currently selected choice is displayed on the menulist element. To create the drop-down, put a menupopup inside the menulist containing the choices as menuitem elements. The command event may be used to execute code when the menulist selection changes.
1873 menupopup XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container used to display the contents of a popup menu. When a menupopup is open, it floats above the window and may extend outside the window border. There are several ways in which a menupopup may be used:
1874 menuseparator XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used to create a separator between menu items. Typically drawn as a thin line.
1875 notification XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The notification is used to display an informative message. It will normally be used as part of a notificationbox. The box includes a button which the user can use to close the box.
1876 notificationbox NeedsMarkupWork, XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The notificationbox element is used to display notifications above an element. Typically the element will be a browser, but any element may be used. The notification element is used for each notification, and will be created automatically for each item. Each notification will slide in and out as needed. This element is used, for example, to implement the yellow information bar in various Firefox windows.
1877 observes XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The observes element can be used to listen to a broadcaster and receive events and attributes from it. The observes element should be placed inside the element that wants to observe the broadcaster. When an observed attribute is modified on the broadcaster, the attribute's value will be forwarded and set on the parent element of the observer.
1878 page XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Similar to a window, except it should be used for XUL files that are to be loaded into an iframe.
1879 panel XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A panel is a used as a temporary floating popup window that may contain any type of content. It does not have any window decorations. When open, it floats above the window and may extend outside the border of the main window. Typically, it will be attached to a button using the button's type attribute so that when the button is pressed, the panel will be displayed. A panel may also be opened via a script using the openPopup method.
1880 param XUL Elements, XUL Reference
For SQL templates, used to bind values to parameters specified within an SQL statement. The value to bind should be text as a child of the param element.
1881 popup Deprecated, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The popup element is equivalent to the menupopup element which should be used instead. See the documentation on the menupopup element for more information.
1882 popupset XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container for menupopup, panel and tooltip elements. This element is optional; the given elements need not appear in a popupset container.
1883 preference Preferences system, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Declares a preference that may be adjusted in a prefpane. This element must be placed inside a preferences element. Each preference element corresponds to a preference which is stored in the user's preferences file. You can connect a user interface element such as a checkbox to a preference element using the user interface element's preference attribute.
1884 preferences Preferences system, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
<preferences> is a container for <preference> elements. It's supposed to be a child of <prefpane> element.
1885 prefpane Preferences system, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single preference panel in a prefwindow. A prefpane is made up of two parts, the preferences descriptions, which specify the set of preferences that will be modified, and the user interface for adjusting those preferences. The former is specified using a preferences element while the latter may be specified using other XUL elements.
1886 prefwindow Preferences system, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A specialized window used for preference dialogs. This element should be used in place of the window tag and should contain one or more prefpane elements. A row of buttons appears across the preference dialog, one for each prefpane. Each pane will usually group together a set of related preferences. If there is only one prefpane, the navigation area will be hidden.
1887 progressmeter XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A meter which can be used to display the progress of a lengthy operation. It is drawn as a bar that is filled as the operation completes. In addition, an indeterminate progressmeter may be created by setting the mode attribute to undetermined. This is used when the length of time to complete an operation is not known beforehand.
1888 progressmeter.max
No summary!
1889 promptBox XUL
The promptBox object represents the tab-modal prompts (or alerts) on a given tab. It's returned by the tabbrowser method getTabModalPromptBox method.
1890 query XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used to specify the query for a template. The attributes and content of the query are dependent on the type of datasource being used.
1891 queryset XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container for query elements when more than one query is used.
1892 radio XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that can be turned on and off. Radio buttons are almost always listed together in groups. Only one radio button within the same radiogroup may be selected at a time. The user can switch which radio button is turned on by selecting it with the mouse or keyboard. Other radio buttons in the same group are turned off. A label, specified with the label attribute may be added beside the radio button.
1893 radiogroup XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A group of radio buttons. Only one radio button inside the group can be selected at a time. The radio buttons may either direct children of the radiogroup or descendants. Place the radiogroup inside a groupbox if you would like a border or caption for the group. The radiogroup defaults to vertical orientation.
1894 resizer XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element used for window resizing. If you place a custom resizing button inside the resizer, the user will be able to resize the window by dragging it. The resizer will send a command event after the resize is complete.
1895 richlistbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used to create a list of listitems (richlistitems), similar to a listbox, but is designed to be used when the items do not contain simple text content.
1896 richlistitem NeedsExample, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An individual item in a richlistbox.
1897 row XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single row in a rows element. Each child of the row element is placed in each successive cell of the grid. The row with the most child elements determines the number of columns in each row, which may be smaller or larger than the number of column elements defined in the grid.
1898 rows XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Defines the rows of a grid. Child row elements define the individual rows to appear in the grid. Each child of a rows element should be a row element.
1899 rule XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A rule is used in a template. The children of the rule are used to declare the conditions in which the rule matches and the content that is generated. A rule may contain where, binding and/or action elements. A condition is defined used a where element. For each result that matches all of the conditions, content within the rule's action body is generated. The bindings element is optional and may specify additional variable bindings to be used.
1900 scale XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A scale (sometimes referred to as a "slider") allows the user to select a value from a range. A bar displayed either horizontally or vertically allows the user to select a value by dragging a thumb on the bar.
1901 script XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Much like the HTML script element, this is used to declare a script to be used by the XUL window. You should usually put scripts in a separate file pointed to by the src attribute, but you may also place the script inline inside the opening and closing script tags.
1902 scrollbar XUL Elements, XUL Reference
When a container's contents which are larger that the size of the container, scroll bars may be placed at the side of the container to allow the user to scroll around in the container. The scroll bar may also be used independently when a numeric value or percentage needs to be selected by the user. The user can adjust the position of the scroll bar by clicking arrows on either end of the scroll bar or by dragging the scroll bar thumb around.
1903 scrollbox NeedsContent, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A box that has additional functions that can be used to scroll the content. Note that a scrollbox doesn't cause scrollbars to be displayed. It is intended to be used when an application wants to be able to adjust the scroll position itself. If you just want scrollbars to appear, add style='overflow: auto;'. This may also be used with any other container element.
1904 scrollcorner XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used for the small box where the horizontal and vertical scrollbars meet.
1905 separator XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Creates a small separating gap between elements. This type of separator should be used to separate parts of a dialog. It doesn't draw a bar visually, but is just a small space. It is functionally equivalent to a spacer except it defaults to a small size (usually 1.5 ems).
1906 spacer XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that takes up space but does not display anything. It is usually used to place spacing within a container. If you don't specify that the spacer has a size or is flexible, the spacer does not occupy any space. If you want a small gap, consider using a separator instead.
1907 spinbuttons XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Spin buttons are two arrows, one to increase a value and one to decrease a value. Spin buttons are not used as separate elements, but are used in combination with other elements to create a control that can be increased and decreased.
1908 splitter XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element which should appear before or after an element inside a container. When the splitter is dragged, the sibling elements of the splitter are resized. If a grippy is placed inside the splitter, one sibling element of the splitter is collapsed when the grippy is clicked.
1909 stack XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element that renders its children on top of each other. The first element is placed on the bottom and each successive child is placed above the previous. All elements are displayed at once. Child elements may also be placed at absolute positions within the stack.
1910 statusbar Deprecated, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element used to create a status bar, usually placed along the bottom of a window. It is virtually equivalent to a standard box, but may be rendered differently. Contains statusbarpanels.
1911 stringbundle XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An element which can be used to load localized resources from property files. Stringbundles should be placed inside a stringbundleset element.
1912 stringbundleset XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container for stringbundle elements.
1913 tab NeedsExample, XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single tab which should be placed inside a tabs element. The user may click a tab to bring the associated page of the tabbox to the front.
1914 tabbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container used to display a set of tabbed pages of elements. A row of tabs is displayed at the top of tabbox which may be used to switch between each page. The tabbox should contain two children, the first a tabs element which contains the tabs and the second a tabpanels element which contains the contents of the pages.
1915 tabbrowser Element, Mozilla, Reference, XUL, XUL Elements, XUL Reference, tabbrowser
This element is used for holding a set of read-only views of Web documents. It is similar to the browser element, except that multiple documents can be displayed, each in a separate tab.
1916 tabpanel XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A individual panel in a tabpanels element. This element is optional and you may just use any other container in place of it.
1917 tabpanels XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container to hold the set of pages in a tabbox. The tabpanels element should be placed in a tabbox although it does not have to be a direct child. The children of the tabpanels element become the panels of the tabbox. In most cases you would use a vbox, but they can be any element, although some people like to use tabpanel elements. By clicking the first tab, the first panel will be displayed. By clicking the second tab, the second panel will be displayed and so on. There should be the same number of panels as there are tabs. Panels should never be hidden; hiding the tab suffices to make the panel inaccessible.
1918 tabs XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A row of tabs. A tabs element should be placed inside a tabbox and should contain tab elements.
1919 template NeedsExample, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used to declare a template for rule-based construction of elements. Elements are constructed from a datasource. For more information see the rule element.
1920 textbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
An input field where the user can enter text. It is similar to the HTML input element. Only one line of text is displayed by default. The multiline attribute can be specified to display a field with multiple rows.
1921 textbox (Toolkit autocomplete) XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is created by setting the type attribute of the textbox to autocomplete. It is used to create a textbox with a popup containing a list of possible completions for what the user has started to type.
1922 textnode XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Normally when substituting RDF resources in template rules, you place the RDF property name inside an attribute value preceded with rdf:. In the case of the textnode element, the entire node is replaced with text corresponding to the result of the value attribute.
1923 timepicker XUL Elements, XUL Reference
The timepicker is used to allow the user to enter a time. It contains three fields to enter the hour, minute and second. Arrow buttons next to the fields allow the values to be adjusted with the mouse. A fourth textbox appears for 12 hour clocks which allows selection of AM or PM.
1924 titlebar XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Boxes created with the titlebar element behave just like a normal window titlebar: when the element is clicked and dragged, the window moves with it. This element can't be used to change the platform-native titlebar of normal windows; instead, it's used to create custom titlebars for chromeless windows. If the titlebar is in a panel element, dragging it will move the panel.
1925 toolbar NeedsHelp, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container which typically contains a row of buttons. It is a type of box that defaults to horizontal orientation. It can be collapsed with a grippy when the toolbar is placed inside a toolbox. The toolbar should always have an id attribute.
1926 toolbarbutton XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A button that appears on a toolbar. It is equivalent to a regular button except that it may be rendered differently. Typically, it is expected to have an image.
1927 toolbargrippy XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Not in Firefox
1928 toolbaritem NeedsHelp, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Firefox only
1929 toolbarpalette NeedsHelp, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Firefox only
1930 toolbarseparator NeedsHelp, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Creates a separator between groups of toolbar items. It is functionally equivalent to a normal separator but some themes may apply a different appearance.
1931 toolbarset NeedsExample, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Firefox only
1932 toolbarspacer XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Firefox only
1933 toolbarspring XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Firefox only
1934 toolbox Toolbars, XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container for toolbars. It is a type of box but defaults to vertical orientation. If a toolbar is placed inside a toolbox, a grippy is displayed on its left or upper edge. The user may click the grippy to collapse the toolbar. If multiple toolbars are placed in the same toolbox, they will all collapse into the same row. The Firefox browser does not have grippies so toolbars cannot be collapsed and expanded.
1935 tooltip XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used for the tooltip popups. For text-only tooltips, this element doesn't need to be used; instead you may just add a tooltiptext attribute to an element.
1936 tree XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container which can be used to hold a tabular or hierarchical set of rows of elements. The tree may contain any number of rows and any number of columns. Each row of the tree may contain child rows which are displayed indented from the parent. Unlike other elements, the data to display inside the tree is not specified using tags, but is determined from a view object. The view object implements the nsITreeView interface. The view is queried for the data to appear in the tree. There are several ways in which trees are used, as listed below. The second column lists the interfaces available via the tree's view property. The third column indicates whether treeitem element are used.
1937 treecell XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single cell in a tree. This element should be placed inside a treerow. You can set the text for the cell using the label attribute.
1938 treechildren XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is the body of the tree. For content trees, the content will be placed inside this element. This element is also used to define container rows in the tree.
1939 treecol XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A column of a tree. It displays the column header and holds the size and other information about the column. You can also place splitter elements between the columns to allow column resizing. You should always place an id attribute on a treecol element to ensure that the column positioning is handled properly.
1940 treecols XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A group of treecol elements. There should one and only one treecols element in a tree.
1941 treeitem XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A treeitem should be placed inside a treechildren element and should contain treerow elements. The treeitem can be clicked by the user to select the row of the tree. The treeitem contains a single row and all of what appear to the user as that row's descendants.
1942 treerow XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A single row in a tree. It should be placed inside a treeitem element. Children of the treerow should be treecell elements. If child rows are necessary, they should be placed in a treechildren element inside the parent treeitem.
1943 treeseparator XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Used to place a separator row in a tree.
1944 triple XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A triple can be included inside a rule's conditions element. It is used to check for an assertion within a graph. If such an assertion exists, the rule may match, assuming that all the conditions match. If the assertion does not exist, the rule will not match. Both the subject and object attributes may be variables.
1945 vbox XUL Elements, XUL Reference
A container element which can contain any number of child elements. This is equivalent to the box element, except it defaults to vertical orientation.
1946 where XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Indicate a condition that must match for a template result to be used. If the condition is true, the corresponding action body is generated; otherwise the result is ignored and no content is generated.
1947 window XUL Elements, XUL Reference
Describes the structure of a top-level window. It is the root node of a XUL document. It is by default a horizontally oriented box. As it is a box, all box attributes can be used. By default, the window will have a platform-specific frame around it.
1948 wizard XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element is used to construct a step-by-step wizard found in some applications to guide users through a task. It is used for a window with several steps contained on several pages. This element provides the header and buttons along the bottom, and also handles navigation between the pages. Each page should be constructed using a wizardpage. The pages are displayed in the order that they are placed in the wizard, unless you use the next and pageid attributes on the pages to change the sequence. The wizard will rendered in a manner suitable for the user's selected theme and platform. In newer versions of Mozilla, a statusbar may be placed directly inside the wizard element which will be shared among all pages.
1949 wizardpage XUL Elements, XUL Reference
This element defines a page in a wizard. The content in the pages should be placed inside the wizardpage element.
1950 XUL Explorer Extensions, Extensions:Tools, Tools, XUL, XUL:Tools
XUL Explorer is a XULRunner application that provides an easy way to experiment with XUL. Itโ€™s a simple editor that can preview XUL inline or in a separate popup window. It has a list of code snippets (small fragments of XUL or JavaScript) that can be quickly inserted into the editor. The XUL can be loaded from and saved to files. A XUL validator and the Error Console are both available to help debug problems. The help menu provides access to XUL information on MDC. There is even simple โ€œkeywordโ€ help lookup for XUL elements.
1951 XULRunner NeedsUpdate, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It provides mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications.
1952 Application Update Tutorials, XUL, XULRunner
This article will hopefully explain how to update your XulRunner application using the same method that Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, and ChatZilla use.
1953 Article
No summary!
1954 Building XULRunner Build documentation, Developing Mozilla, XUL, XULRunner
No summary!
1955 Building XULRunner with Python Accessibility, Build documentation, Developing Mozilla, XUL, XULRunner
No summary!
1956 CommandLine Command Line, Guide, NeedsUpdate, XUL, XULRunner
It's fairly easy to retrieve application specific command line arguments in XULRunner when it's not a single instance application. An nsICommandLine object is passed as the first argument of the launched window:
1957 Components XUL, XULRunner
Adding components to XULRunner is simple once you understand how XULRunner registers and saves the components.
1958 Creating XULRunner Apps with the Mozilla Build System Build documentation, Developing Mozilla, XUL, XULRunner
No summary!
1959 Creating a Windows Inno Setup installer for XULRunner applications Deployment, Tutorials, XUL, XULRunner
A XULRunner application has no installer by default; however, these instructions can help you to easily create a Windows installer with Inno Setup. The tutorial here uses the My App example from the article Getting started with XULRunner.
1960 Custom app bundles for Mac OS X Guide, Mozilla, XUL, XULRunner
Mac OS X applications are typically packaged as application bundles which are then distributed in .dmg (disk image) files. This tutorial will show you how to package your XULRunner-based application in a way which is consistent with the expectations of Mac OS X users.
1961 Debugging a XULRunner Application Browser Debugger, Debug, Preferences, Venkman, XUL, XULRunner
The easiest way to debug a XULRunner application is to get the system to tell you what's wrong! There are two different consoles available and various preferences which will ensure that the information you need to know is displayed on them.
1962 Deploying XULRunner Deployment, Guide, Tutorials, XUL, XULRunner
Current XULRunner is a stable developer preview release. This means that while the release is immature in some areas such as embedding, application deployment, and OS integration, it can be used by developers that are releasing standalone XUL applications. This document explains how deployment should be managed for self contained portable applications built on XULRunner.
1963 Dialogs in XULRunner XUL, XULRunner
The last article in this series covered some simple XUL for creating windows, menus, and toolbars. This time I'll look at dialogs, including both custom dialogs and standard operating system dialogs. Dialogs are pretty fundamental to a desktop application. Certain types of dialogs are used so frequently that the OS can provide a default implementation. File open and save dialogs are good examples of these. Whenever possible, it is a good idea to reuse these "native" dialogs so users get a consistent experience across applications.
1964 Getting started with XULRunner Tutorials, XUL, XULRunner
This article explores the Mozilla platform by building a basic desktop application using XULRunner. Given that Firefox, Thunderbird, and multiple other applications are written using the platform, it's a safe bet that it can be used to build a basic application. There is an article with a more complicated approach to building XULRunner applications at Creating XULRunner Apps with the Mozilla Build System. If you need to change XULRunner itself or integrate it with external binaries you may need to read that article.
1965 How to enable locale switching in a XULRunner application Localization
This article is for developers who have localised their XUL application using DTD entity files and want to provide their users with a mechanism to switch the locale in the application itself. Normally the application locale is inherited from the OS environment of the host system, however there are situations when you might want to give users the option to override the default setting and choose a different locale.
1966 MacFAQ XUL, XULRunner
(Note this document has NOT been reviewed for accuracy or completeness.)
1967 Make your xulrunner app match the system locale XUL, XULRunner
This article is going to assume a lot of knowledge of xpcom and will be written for someone using python, but the ideas should be adaptable. Also, this may not be the proper way to do this and it may not work for you in all cases. Please update if there are more correct ways to do this.
1968 Opening a Link in the Default Browser Add-ons, Extensions, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner applications may have situation where they wish to open a URI in the default browser. This will often be an HTTP or HTTPS URI, but can use any scheme for which an external handler exists. This can be done using the nsIExternalProtocolService interface:
1969 Specifying Startup Chrome Window XUL, XULRunner
In order to specify the main chrome window of your XULRunner application, you'll need to add a preferences file to your application directory structure and add a preference named toolkit.defaultChromeURI to that file.
1970 Using Crash Reporting in a XULRunner Application Crash_reporting, XUL, XULRunner
No summary!
1971 Using LDAP XPCOM with XULRunner XUL, XULRunner
By default, XULRunner is built without LDAP XPCOM support. If you want to use LDAP components in your XUL application, you have two options : compile XULRunner with LDAP support enabled, or add LDAP XPCOM directly to your XUL app (in the components directory).
1973 Using SOAP in XULRunner 1.9 SOAP, XML Web Services, XULRunner
Since the native SOAP interface was removed from Gecko 1.9, those stuck speaking to SOAP APIs need a new place to turn. After some experimentation, the following seems to be the best way to speak SOAP in XULRunner.
1974 What XULRunner Provides FAQ, XUL, XULRunner
The goal of XULRunner is to provide a solution for deploying XUL applications (primarily Firefox and Thunderbird), as well as providing an embedding mechanism. The following features are either already implemented or planned:
1975 Windows and menus in XULRunner XUL, XULRunner
Our quest to build a basic desktop application using XULRunner continues. Last time I installed XULRunner and built a very simple, bare-bones test application. This time I want to add some of the things common to a desktop application user interface:
1976 XUL Application Packaging Deployment, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner application packages are standard toolkit bundles (like a Firefox extension), with one additional manifest file (application.ini) which helps describe the application. XUL app packages are typically ZIPped into an archive with the extension .xulapp or .xpi. They can be installed to XULRunner with a command line flag "--install-app" if XULRunner is registered on the system. See Command Line Options for more details.
1977 XULRunner 1.8.0.1 Release Notes Release Notes, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner 1.8.0.1 is the first stable developer preview release of XULRunner. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications.
1978 XULRunner 1.8.0.4 Release Notes Command Line, FAQ, Release Notes, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner 1.8.0.4 is a stable developer preview of the Mozilla XULRunner application framework. It replaces version 1.8.0.1; all users should upgrade. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications.
1979 XULRunner 1.9 Release Notes Release Notes, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner 1.9 is a stable release of the Mozilla XULRunner application framework. It replaces version 1.8.0.4; all users should upgrade. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications. XULRunner 1.9 is built from the same source code snapshot as Firefox 3.
1980 XULRunner 1.9.1 Release Notes Release Notes, XUL, XULRunner
XULRunner 1.9.1 is a stable release of the Mozilla XULRunner application framework. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications. XULRunner 1.9.1.x is built from the same source code snapshot as Firefox 3.5.x.
1981 XULRunner 1.9.2 Release Notes
XULRunner 1.9.2 is a stable release of the Mozilla XULRunner application framework. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications. XULRunner 1.9.2.x is built from the same source code snapshot as Firefox 3.6.x.
1982 XULRunner 2.0 Release Notes
XULRunner 2.0 is a stable release of the Mozilla XULRunner application framework. It provides facilities for launching standalone XUL applications and embedding APIs which can be used to render web pages within native and Java applications. XULRunner 2.0.x is built from the same source code snapshot as Firefox 4.0.x.
1983 XULRunner FAQ FAQ, XUL, XULRunner
This page is intended to answer frequently asked questions and correct common misconceptions about XULRunner.
1984 XULRunner Hall of Fame Demos, XUL, XULRunner, enterprise
See also Featured Mozilla-based applications, many of which use XULRunner.
1985 XULRunner tips Chrome URL, Command Line, Extension Manager, Extensions, FAQ, Password Manager, Preferences, Tips, XUL, XULRunner, branding
XULRunner Frequently Asked Questions. Work in progress. Contains tons of non-working code (bit rot).
1986 XULRunner/Old Releases XUL, XULRunner
No summary!
1987 toolkit.defaultChromeFeatures Preferences, XULRunner
Type: String
Specified by: default prefs of XULRunner applications
Default: "chrome,dialog=no,all"
Example: pref("toolkit.defaultChromeFeatures", "chrome,resizable=no,dialog=no");
1988 toolkit.defaultChromeURI Preferences, XULRunner
Type: String
Specified by: default prefs of XULRunner applications
Default: none
Example: pref("toolkit.defaultChromeURI", "chrome://myapp/content/");
1989 toolkit.singletonWindowType Preferences, XULRunner
Preference
1990 xulauncher
No summary!
1991 [Deprecated] The Mozilla build VM Developer Guide, Firefox, Guide, Introduction, Mozilla, build
The Mozilla build VM is no longer maintained or supported. Thanks to significant improvements in our build environment setup process, it's much simpler and easier to get set up and stay up to date by starting with Building Firefox instead.
1992 ant script to assemble an extension Extensions, Extensions:Tools, Tools
This ant script helps to package an extension
1993 application/http-index-format specification Necko
The application/http-index-format file format is an attempt to provide a generic, extensible file listing format that is principly machine readable.
1994 calICalendarView Interfaces, Interfaces:Scriptable, XPCOM, XPCOM API Reference
An object implementing calICalendarView is generally intended to serve as a way of manipulating a set of DOM nodes corresonding to a visual representation of calIEvent and calITodo objects. Because of this close association between methods and attributes on the one hand, and content on the other, calICalendarView implementations are particularly well suited to XBL. There is, however, no practical obstacle to the interface being implemented by any javascript object associated with a group of DOM nodes, even non-anonymous XUL nodes.
1995 calICalendarViewController Interfaces, Interfaces:Scriptable, XPCOM, XPCOM API Reference
A calICalendarViewController provides a way for a calICalendarView to create, modify, and delete items. Implementing a calICalendarViewController allows for these actions to be performed in a manner consistent with the rest of the application in which the calICalendarView is included.
1996 calIFileType Interfaces
The calIFileType interface provides information about a specific file type.
1997 mozilla.dev.platform FAQ
FAQ for questions asked on mozilla.dev.platform
1998 nsIContentPolicy Interfaces, Interfaces:Scriptable, NeedsMarkupWork, Reference, XPCOM, XPCOM Interface Reference
You can observe content that is being loaded into your browser by implementing nsIContentPolicy. This interface can be very useful if you are developing a content-aware plugin (blocking ads or altering the look of content, for example), or if you want to stop or allow user-browsed URLs.
1999 reftest opportunities files Automated testing, Developing Mozilla
These are files in the Mozilla source that may be usable for reftest. It is not always clear why particular files were checked in, but one presumes that something needed to be checked. Many of these were checked with the Layout Regression test tool, which has been described as difficult to use and it apparently reported a lot of regressions that were not errors.
2000 symsrv_convert
Make sure you have a symsrv.dll and symsrv.yes in the directory where symsrv_convert is looking. For me this was C:/Windows/SysWOW64/
2001 xbDesignMode.js
No summary!
2002 Archived open Web documentation Archive, Landing, Web
The documentation listed below is archived, obsolete material about open Web topics.
2003 Archived JavaScript Reference Archive, JavaScript, Obsolete, Overview
Obsolete JavaScript features and unmaintained docs
2004 Array comprehensions JavaScript, Language feature, Non-standard, Obsolete, Operator, Reference
The array comprehension syntax was a JavaScript expression which allowed you to quickly assemble a new array based on an existing one. However, it has been removed from the standard and the Firefox implementation. Do not use it!
2005 Array.observe() Array, JavaScript, Method, Obsolete
The Array.observe() method was used for asynchronously observing changes to Arrays, similar to Object.observe() for objects. It provided a stream of changes in order of occurrence. It's equivalent to Object.observe() invoked with the accept type list ["add", "update", "delete", "splice"]. However, this API has been deprecated and removed from Browsers. You can use the more general Proxy object instead.
2006 Array.unobserve() Array, JavaScript, Method, Obsolete
The Array.unobserve() method was used to remove observers set by Array.observe(), but has been deprecated and removed from Browsers. You can use the more general Proxy object instead.
2007 ArrayBuffer.transfer() ArrayBuffer, Experimental, JavaScript, Method, Reference, TypedArrays
The static ArrayBuffer.transfer() method returns a new ArrayBuffer whose contents have been taken from the oldBuffer's data and then is either truncated or zero-extended by newByteLength. If newByteLength is undefined, the byteLength of the oldBuffer is used. This operation leaves oldBuffer in a detached state.
2008 Date.prototype.toLocaleFormat() Date, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Prototype, Reference
The non-standard toLocaleFormat() method converts a date to a string using the specified formatting. Intl.DateTimeFormat is an alternative to format dates in a standards-compliant way. See also the newer version of Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString().
2009 ECMAScript 2016 to ES.Next support in Mozilla Firefox, JavaScript, NeedsUpdate
No summary!
2010 Expression closures Function, JavaScript, Language feature, Non-standard, Obsolete, Operator, Reference
Expression closures are a shorthand function syntax for writing simple functions.
2011 Function.arity Function, JavaScript, Obsolete, Property, Unimplemented
Not part of any standard.
2012 Function.prototype.isGenerator() Function, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Obsolete
The non-standard isGenerator() method used to determine whether or not a function is a generator. It has been removed from Firefox starting with version 58.
2013 Generator comprehensions Iterator, JavaScript, Language feature, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference
The generator comprehension syntax was a JavaScript expression which allowed you to quickly assemble a new generator function based on an existing iterable object. However, it has been removed from the standard and the Firefox implementation. Do not use it!
2014 Legacy generator function JavaScript, Language feature, Legacy Iterator, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference
The legacy generator function statement declares legacy generator functions with the specified parameters.
2015 Legacy generator function expression JavaScript, Language feature, Legacy Iterator, Non-standard, Obsolete, Operator, Reference
The function keyword can be used to define a legacy generator function inside an expression. To make the function a legacy generator, the function body should contain at least one yield expression.
2016 Microsoft JavaScript extensions JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Landing page, Non-standard, Reference
Microsoft browsers (Internet Explorer, and in a few cases, Microsoft Edge) support a number of special Microsoft extensions to the otherwise standard JavaScript APIs.
2017 @cc_on JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Language feature, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, Statement
The @cc_on statement activates conditional compilation support within comments in a script.
2018 @if JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Language feature, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, Statement
The @if statement conditionally executes a group of statements, depending on the value of an expression.
2019 @set JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Language feature, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, Statement
The @set statement creates variables used with conditional compilation statements.
2020 ActiveXObject ActiveXObject, Class, Deprecated, Extension, JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Microsoft, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference
The ActiveXObject Object enables and returns a reference to an automation object.
2021 Date.getVarDate() JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Method, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference
The getVarDate method returns a VT_DATE value from a Date object.
2022 Debug Debug, Interface, JavaScript, Namespace, Non-standard
The debug object is an instrinsic global object that sends output to a debugger.
2023 Debug.debuggerEnabled Debug, JavaScript, Property, Reference, debuggerEnabled
The debug.debuggerEnabled property determines whether debugging is enabled for the script context. Debugging may be enabled or disabled whether or not a debugger is attached.
2024 Debug.msTraceAsyncCallbackCompleted Debug, JavaScript, NeedsContent, Property, Reference, msTraceAsyncCallbackCompleted
Indicates that the callback stack associated with a previously specified asynchronous operation has completed.
2025 Debug.msTraceAsyncCallbackCompleted Debug, Example, JavaScript, Method, msTraceAsyncCallbackCompleted
The debug.msTraceAsyncCallbackCompleted function indicates that an asynchronous operation has completed.
2026 Debug.msTraceAsyncCallbackStarting Debug, Example, JavaScript, Method, msTraceAsyncCallbackStarting
The debug.msTraceAsyncCallbackStarting function associates the callback stack with a previously specified asynchronous operation.
2027 Debug.msTraceAsyncOperationStarting Debug, JavaScript, Method, Reference, msTraceAsyncOperationStarting
Initiates a trace for an asynchronous operation.
2028 Debug.msUpdateAsyncCallbackRelation Debug, JavaScript, Method, Reference, msUpdateAsyncCallbackRelation
The debug.msUpdateAsyncCallbackRelation function updates the relationship status between a synchronous work item and the associated asynchronous operation.
2029 Debug.setNonUserCodeExceptions Debug, Example, JavaScript, Property, setNonUserCodeExceptions
If this property is set to true within a given scope, the debugger can then choose whether to take some specified action on exceptions thrown inside that scope: for instance, if the developer wishes to break on user-unhandled exceptions. Setting this property to false is the same as never having set the property.
2030 Debug.write Debug, Example, JavaScript, Method, write
The debug.write function sends strings to the script debugger.
2031 Debug.writeln Beginner, JavaScript, Method
The debug.writeln function sends strings to the script debugger, followed by a newline character.
2032 Enumerator Class, JavaScript, Microsoft, enumerable
The Enumerator object enables enumeration of items in a collection.
2033 Enumerator.atEnd Enumerator, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, atEnd
The Enumerator.atEnd method returns a Boolean value indicating if the enumerator is at the end of the collection.
2034 Enumerator.item Enumerator, JavaScript, Method
The Enumerator.item method returns the current item in the collection.
2035 Enumerator.moveFirst Enumerator, Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, moveFirst
The Enumerator.moveFirst method resets the current item in the collection to the first item.
2036 Enumerator.moveNext Enumerator, Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard
The Enumerator.moveNext method moves the current item to the next item in the collection.
2037 Error.description Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Non-standard, Property, description
The Error.description property returns or sets the descriptive string associated with a specific error.
2038 Error.number Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Non-standard, Number, Property
The Error.number property returns or sets the numeric value associated with a specific error. The Error object's default property is number.
2039 Error.stackTraceLimit Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Non-standard, Property, stackTraceLimit
The Error.stackTraceLimit property gets or sets the stack trace limit, which is equivalent to the number of error frames to display. The default limit is 10.
2040 GetObject Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Reference
The GetObject function returns a reference to an Automation object from a file.
2041 ScriptEngine() Deprecated, JavaScript, JavaScript:Microsoft Extensions, Method, Non-standard
The ScriptEngine function gets the name of the scripting language in use.
2042 ScriptEngineBuildVersion Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, ScriptEngine, ScriptEngineBuildVersion
The ScriptEngineBuildVersion function bets the build version number of the scripting engine in use.
2043 ScriptEngineMajorVersion Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, ScriptEngine, ScriptEngineMajorVersion
The ScriptEngineMajorVersion function gets the major version number of the scripting engine in use.
2044 ScriptEngineMinorVersion Example, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, ScriptEngine, ScriptEngineMinorVersion
The ScriptEngineMinorVersion function gets the minor version number of the scripting engine in use.
2045 VBArray Class, Example, JavaScript, Non-standard, Reference
The VBArray object provides access to Visual Basic safe arrays.
2046 VBArray.dimensions Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Reference
The VBArray.dimensions method returns the number of dimensions in a VBArray.
2047 VBArray.getItem Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Reference
The VBArray.getItem method returns the item at the specified location.
2048 VBArray.lbound Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Reference
The VBArray.lbound method returns the lowest index value used in the specified dimension of a VBArray.
2049 VBArray.toArray Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Reference
The VBArray.toArray method returns a standard JavaScript array converted from a VBArray.
2050 VBArray.ubound Example, JavaScript, Method, Non-standard, Reference
The VBArray.ubound method returns the highest index value used in the specified dimension of the VBArray.
2051 New in JavaScript ECMAScript, JavaScript, Versions
This chapter contains information about JavaScript's version history and implementation status for Mozilla/SpiderMonkey-based JavaScript applications, such as Firefox.
2052 ECMAScript 2015 support in Mozilla ECMAScript 2015, Firefox, JavaScript
ECMAScript 2015 is the sixth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification standard. It defines the standard for the JavaScript implementation in SpiderMonkey, the engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla applications.
2053 ECMAScript 5 support in Mozilla ECMAScript 5, JavaScript, Versions
ECMAScript 5.1, an older version of the standard upon which JavaScript is based, was approved in June 2011.
2054 New in JavaScript 1.1 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript from Netscape Navigator 2.0 to 3.0. The old Netscape documentation references this as "Features added after version 1". Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released on August 19, 1996. Netscape Navigator 3.0 was the second major version of the browser with JavaScript support.
2055 New in JavaScript 1.2 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript from Netscape Navigator 3.0 to 4.0. The old Netscape documentation can be found on archive.org. Netscape Navigator 4.0 was released on June 11, 1997. Netscape Navigator 4.0 was the third major version of the browser with JavaScript support.
2056 New in JavaScript 1.3 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript from Netscape Navigator 4.0 to 4.5. The old Netscape documentation can be found on archive.org. Netscape Navigator 4.5 was released on October 19, 1998.
2057 New in JavaScript 1.4 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.4, which was only used for Netscape's server side JavaScript released in 1999. The old Netscape documentation can be found on archive.org.
2058 New in JavaScript 1.5 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.5. This version was included in Netscape Navigator 6.0 was released on November 14, 2000 and was also used in later versions of Netscape Navigator and Firefox 1.0. You can compare JavaScript 1.5 to JScript version 5.5 and Internet Explorer 5.5, which was released in July 2000. The corresponding ECMA standard is ECMA-262 Edition 3 (from December 1999).
2059 New in JavaScript 1.6 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.6. This version was included in Firefox 1.5 (Gecko 1.8), which was released in November 2005. The corresponding ECMA standard is ECMA-262 Edition 3 and ECMAScript for XML (E4X) with some additional features. Several new features were introduced: E4X, several new Array methods, and Array and String generics.
2060 New in JavaScript 1.7 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.7. This version was included in Firefox 2 (October 2006).
2061 New in JavaScript 1.8 JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.8. This version was included in Firefox 3 and is part of Gecko 1.9. See bug 380236 for a tracking development bug for JavaScript 1.8.
2062 New in JavaScript 1.8.1 Firefox 3.5, JavaScript, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.8.1. This version was included in Firefox 3.5.
2063 New in JavaScript 1.8.5 ECMAScript 5, Firefox 4, JavaScript, JavaScript 1.8.5, Versions
The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.8.5. This version was included in Firefox 4.
2064 Number.toInteger() JavaScript, Method, Number, Obsolete
The Number.toInteger() method used to evaluate the passed value and convert it to an integer, but its implementation has been removed.
2065 Object.getNotifier() JavaScript, Method, Object, Obsolete
The Object.getNotifer() method was used to create an object that allows to synthetically trigger a change, but has been deprecated and removed in browsers.
2066 Object.observe() JavaScript, Method, Object, Obsolete
The Object.observe() method was used for asynchronously observing the changes to an object. It provided a stream of changes in the order in which they occur. However, this API has been deprecated and removed from browsers. You can use the more general Proxy object instead.
2067 Object.prototype.__count__ JavaScript, Non-standard, Object, Obsolete, Property, Prototype
The __count__ property used to store the count of enumerable properties on the object, but it has been removed.
2068 Object.prototype.__noSuchMethod__ JavaScript, Non-standard, Object, Obsolete, Property, Prototype
The __noSuchMethod__ property used to reference a function to be executed when a non-existent method is called on an object, but this function is no longer available.
2069 Object.prototype.__parent__ JavaScript, Non-standard, Object, Obsolete, Property, Prototype
The __parent__ property used to point to an object's context, but it has been removed.
2070 Object.prototype.eval() JavaScript, Method, Object, Obsolete
The Object.eval() method used to evaluate a string of JavaScript code in the context of an object, however, this method has been removed.
2071 Object.prototype.unwatch() Debugging, Deprecated, JavaScript, Method, Object, Obsolete, Prototype, Reference
The unwatch() method removes a watchpoint set with the watch() method.
2072 Object.prototype.watch() Debugging, Deprecated, JavaScript, Method, Object, Obsolete, Prototype
The watch() method watches for a property to be assigned a value and runs a function when that occurs.
2073 Object.unobserve() JavaScript, Method, Object, Obsolete
The Object.unobserve() method was used to remove observers set by Object.observe(), but has been deprecated and removed from Browsers. You can use the more general Proxy object instead.
2074 Reflect.enumerate() ECMAScript 2015, JavaScript, Method, Obsolete, Reflect
The static Reflect.enumerate() method used to return an iterator with the enumerable own and inherited properties of the target object, but has been removed in ECMAScript 2016 and is deprecated in browsers.
2075 String.prototype.quote() JavaScript, Method, Obsolete, Prototype, Reference, String
The non-standard quote() method returns a copy of the string, replacing various special characters in the string with their escape sequences and wrapping the result in double-quotes (").
2076 arguments.caller Functions, JavaScript, Obsolete, Property, arguments
The obsolete arguments.caller property used to provide the function that invoked the currently executing function. This property has been removed and no longer works.
2077 for each...in Deprecated, E4X, JavaScript, Language feature, Obsolete, Statement
The for each...in statement iterates a specified variable over all values of object's properties. For each distinct property, a specified statement is executed.
2078 handler.enumerate() ECMAScript 2015, JavaScript, Method, Obsolete, Proxy
The handler.enumerate() method used to be a trap for for...in statements, but has been removed from the ECMAScript standard in ES2016 and is deprecated in browsers.
2079 Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support
Improper browser detection can lead to web maintenance nightmares. Rethinking the basics of when and how to detect user agents is crucial to creating maintainable, cross browser web content. This article reviews several approaches to browser detection, their usefulness in specific circumstances to arrive at a common sense approach to browser detection.
2080 Browser Feature Detection Compatibility, Cross-browser_Development, DOM, Gecko, Obsolete, Web Development
An experimental approach to discovering degree of support for Standards.
2081 CSS Archive, CSS, Obsolete, Overview
Obsolete CSS features
2082 -moz-binding CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Deprecated, Mozilla, Non-standard, Reference, XBL, XUL, recipe:css-property
The -moz-binding CSS property is used by Mozilla-based applications to attach an XBL binding to a DOM element.
2083 -moz-border-bottom-colors CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, recipe:css-property
In Mozilla applications like Firefox, the -moz-border-bottom-colors CSS property sets a list of colors for the bottom border.
2084 -moz-border-left-colors CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, recipe:css-property
In Mozilla applications like Firefox, the -moz-border-left-colors CSS property sets a list of colors for the left border.
2085 -moz-border-right-colors CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, recipe:css-property
In Mozilla applications like Firefox, the -moz-border-right-colors CSS property sets a list of colors for the right border.
2086 -moz-border-top-colors CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, recipe:css-property
In Mozilla applications like Firefox, the -moz-border-top-colors CSS property sets a list of colors for the top border.
2087 -moz-stack-sizing CSS, CSS Property, NeedsCompatTable, Non-standard, Reference, XUL, recipe:css-property
-moz-stack-sizing is an extended CSS property. Normally, a <xul:stack> will change its size so that all of its child elements are completely visible. For example, moving a child of the stack far to the right will widen the stack so the child remains visible.
2088 -moz-text-blink CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -moz-text-blink non-standard Mozilla CSS extension specifies the blink mode.
2089 -moz-window-shadow CSS, CSS Property, NeedsCompatTable, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, XUL, recipe:css-property
The -moz-window-shadow CSS property specifies whether a window will have a shadow. It only works on Mac OS X.
2090 -ms-accelerator CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-accelerator CSS property is a Microsoft extension that sets or retrieves a string indicating whether the object represents a keyboard shortcut.
2091 -ms-block-progression CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-block-progression CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the block progression and layout orientation.
2092 -ms-content-zoom-chaining CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-content-zoom-chaining CSS property is a Microsoft extension specifying the zoom behavior that occurs when a user hits the zoom limit during page manipulation.
2093 -ms-content-zoom-limit CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-shorthand-property
The -ms-content-zoom-limit CSS shorthand property is a Microsoft extension that specifies values for the -ms-content-zoom-limit-min and -ms-content-zoom-limit-max properties.
2094 -ms-content-zoom-limit-max CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-content-zoom-limit-max CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the selected elements' maximum zoom factor.
2095 -ms-content-zoom-limit-min CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-content-zoom-limit-min CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the minimum zoom factor.
2096 -ms-content-zoom-snap CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-shorthand-property
The -ms-content-zoom-snap CSS shorthand property is a Microsoft extension that specifies values for the -ms-content-zoom-snap-type and -ms-content-zoom-snap-points properties.
2097 -ms-content-zoom-snap-points CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-content-zoom-snap-points CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies where zoom snap-points are located.
2098 -ms-content-zoom-snap-type CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-content-zoom-snap-type CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies how zooming is affected by defined snap-points.
2099 -ms-content-zooming CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-content-zooming CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies whether zooming is enabled.
2100 -ms-filter CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-filter CSS property is a Microsoft extension that sets or retrieves the filter or collection of filters applied to an object.
2101 -ms-flow-from CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-flow-from CSS property is a Microsoft extension that gets or sets a value identifying a region container in the document that accepts the content flow from the data source.
2102 -ms-flow-into CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-flow-into CSS property is a Microsoft extension that gets or sets a value identifying an iframe container in the document that serves as the region's data source.
2103 -ms-high-contrast-adjust CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-high-contrast-adjust CSS property is a Microsoft extension that gets or sets a value indicating whether to override any CSS properties that would have been set in high contrast mode.
2104 -ms-hyphenate-limit-chars CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-hyphenate-limit-chars CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies one to three values indicating the minimum number of characters in a hyphenated word. If the word does not meet the required minimum number of characters in the word, before the hyphen, or after the hyphen, then the word is not hyphenated.
2105 -ms-hyphenate-limit-lines CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-hyphenate-limit-lines CSS property is a Microsoft extension specifying the maximum number of consecutive lines in an element that may be ended with a hyphenated word.
2106 -ms-hyphenate-limit-zone CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-hyphenate-limit-zone CSS property is a Microsoft extension specifying the width of the hyphenation zone.
2107 -ms-ime-align CSS, CSS Property, NeedsBrowserCompatibility, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-ime-align CSS property is a Microsoft extension aligning the Input Method Editor (IME) candidate window box relative to the element on which the IME composition is active. The extension is implemented in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11.
2108 -ms-overflow-style CSS, CSS Property, NeedsBrowserCompatibility, NeedsCompatTable, NeedsExample, NeedsMobileBrowserCompatibility, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-overflow-style CSS property is a Microsoft extension controlling the behavior of scrollbars when the content of an element overflows.
2109 -ms-scroll-chaining CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-chaining CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the scrolling behavior that occurs when a user hits the scroll limit during a manipulation.
2110 -ms-scroll-limit CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-shorthand-property
The -ms-scroll-limit CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies values for the -ms-scroll-limit-x-min, -ms-scroll-limit-y-min, -ms-scroll-limit-x-max, and -ms-scroll-limit-y-max properties.
2111 -ms-scroll-limit-x-max CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-limit-x-max CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the maximum value for the Element.scrollLeft property.
2112 -ms-scroll-limit-x-min CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-limit-x-min CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the minimum value for the Element.scrollLeft property.
2113 -ms-scroll-limit-y-max CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-limit-y-max CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the maximum value for the Element.scrollTop property.
2114 -ms-scroll-limit-y-min CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-limit-y-min CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the minimum value for the Element.scrollTop property.
2115 -ms-scroll-rails CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-rails CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies whether scrolling locks to the primary axis of motion.
2116 -ms-scroll-snap-points-x CSS, CSS Property, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-snap-points-x CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies where snap-points will be located along the x-axis.
2117 -ms-scroll-snap-points-y CSS, CSS Property, CSS Scroll Snap, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-snap-points-y CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies where snap-points will be located along the y-axis.
2118 -ms-scroll-snap-x CSS, CSS Property, CSS Scroll Snap, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-shorthand-property
The -ms-scroll-snap-x CSS shorthand property is a Microsoft extension that specifies values for the -ms-scroll-snap-type and -ms-scroll-snap-points-x properties.
2119 -ms-scroll-snap-y CSS, CSS Property, CSS Scroll Snap, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-shorthand-property
The -ms-scroll-snap-x CSS shorthand property is a Microsoft extension that specifies values for the -ms-scroll-snap-type and -ms-scroll-snap-points-y properties.
2120 -ms-scroll-translation CSS, CSS Property, CSS Scroll Snap, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scroll-translation CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies whether vertical-to-horizontal scroll wheel translation occurs on the specified element.
2121 -ms-scrollbar-3dlight-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-3dlight-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension specifying the color of the top and left edges of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar.
2122 -ms-scrollbar-arrow-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-arrow-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the color of the arrow elements of a scroll arrow.
2123 -ms-scrollbar-base-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-base-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the base color of the main elements of a scroll bar.
2124 -ms-scrollbar-darkshadow-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-darkshadow-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the color of a scroll bar's gutter.
2125 -ms-scrollbar-face-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-face-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the color of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar.
2126 -ms-scrollbar-highlight-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-highlight-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the color of the slider tray, the top and left edges of the scroll box, and the scroll arrows of a scroll bar.
2127 -ms-scrollbar-shadow-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-shadow-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the color of the bottom and right edges of the scroll box and scroll arrows of a scroll bar.
2128 -ms-scrollbar-track-color CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft extentions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-scrollbar-track-color CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the color of the track element of a scrollbar.
2129 -ms-text-autospace CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-text-autospace CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text.
2130 -ms-touch-select CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-touch-select CSS property is a Microsoft extension that toggles the gripper visual elements that enable touch text selection.
2131 -ms-wrap-flow CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-wrap-flow CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies how exclusions impact inline content within block-level elements.
2132 -ms-wrap-margin CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-wrap-margin CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies a margin that offsets the inner wrap shape from other shapes.
2133 -ms-wrap-through CSS, CSS Property, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, recipe:css-property
The -ms-wrap-through CSS property is a Microsoft extension that specifies how content should wrap around an exclusion element.
2134 :-moz-full-screen-ancestor CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Deprecated, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-full-screen-ancestor CSS pseudo-class is a Mozilla extension that represents all ancestors of the full-screen element, except containing frames in parent documents, which are the full-screen element in their own documents. However, those elements' ancestors have this pseudo-class applied to them.
2135 :-moz-system-metric() :-moz-system-metric, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, Obsolete, Pseudo-class, Selector
This page was auto-generated because a user created a sub-page to this page.
2136 -moz-windows-compositor @media, CSS, Non-standard, media feature
Media: media/visual
Accepts min/max prefixes: no
2137 :-moz-system-metric(images-in-menus) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(images-in-menus) CSS pseudo-class matches an element if the computer's user interface supports images in menus.
2138 :-moz-system-metric(mac-graphite-theme) :-moz-system-metric, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, Reference, Selector
:-moz-system-metric(mac-graphite-theme) will match an element if the user has chosen the "Graphite" appearance in the "Appearance" prefpane of the Mac OS X System Preferences.
2139 :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-end-backward) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-end-backward) CSS pseudo-class will match an element if the computer's user interface includes a backward arrow button at the end of scrollbars.
2140 :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-end-forward) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-end-forward) CSS pseudo-class will match an element if the computer's user interface includes a forward arrow button at the end of scrollbars.
2141 :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-start-backward) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-start-backward) CSS pseudo-class will match an element if the computer's user interface includes a backward arrow button at the start of scrollbars.
2142 :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-start-forward) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-start-forward) CSS pseudo-class will match an element if the computer's user interface includes a forward arrow button at the start of scrollbars.
2143 :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-thumb-proportional) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(scrollbar-thumb-proportional) CSS pseudo-class will match an element if the computer's user interface uses proportional scrollbar thumbs; that is, the draggable thumb on the scrollbar resizes to indicate the relative size of the visible area of the document.
2144 :-moz-system-metric(touch-enabled) CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(touch-enabled) CSS pseudo-class will match an element if the device on which the content is being rendered offers a supported touch-screen interface.
2145 :-moz-system-metric(windows-default-theme) CSS, Mozilla, Non-standard, Pseudo-class, Reference, Selector
The :-moz-system-metric(windows-default-theme) CSS pseudo-class matches an element if the user is currently using one of the following themes in Windows: Luna, Royale, Zune, or Aero (i.e., Vista Basic, Vista Standard, or Aero Glass). This will exclude Windows Classic themes as well as third-party themes.
2146 ::-ms-browse CSS, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-browse CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents the button that opens the file picker of <input type="file">.
2147 ::-ms-check CSS, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-check CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents checkboxes and radio button groups created by <input type="checkbox"> and <input type="radio">.
2148 ::-ms-clear CSS, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-clear CSS pseudo-element creates a clear button at the edge of an <input type="text"> text control that clears the current value. This pseudo-element is non-standard, supported only in Internet Explorer 10, Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft Edge.
2149 ::-ms-expand CSS, CSS:Microsoft Extensions, NeedsCompatTable, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-expand CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents the button of a <select> menu control that opens or closes the drop-down menu. Typically it is a triangle that points downward.
2150 ::-ms-fill CSS, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-fill CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents a progress bar displayed by <progress>.
2151 ::-ms-fill-lower CSS, NeedsBrowserCompatibility, NeedsExample, NeedsMobileBrowserCompatibility, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-fill-lower CSS pseudo-element represents the lower portion of the track of a slider control; that is, the portion corresponding to values less than the value currently selected by the thumb. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2152 ::-ms-fill-upper CSS, NeedsBrowserCompatibility, NeedsExample, NeedsMobileBrowserCompatibility, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-fill-upper CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents the upper portion of the track of a slider control; that is, the portion corresponding to values greater than the value currently selected by the thumb. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2153 ::-ms-reveal CSS, NeedsContent, NeedsExample, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-reveal CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that is used to display a password reveal button for use with a password field created by <input type="password">. The user presses the button to reveal the actual field value rather than asterisks.
2154 ::-ms-thumb CSS, NeedsBrowserCompatibility, NeedsCompatTable, NeedsExample, NeedsMobileBrowserCompatibility, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-thumb CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents the thumb that the user moves within the track of a slider control to alter its numerical value. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2155 ::-ms-ticks-after CSS, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-ticks-after CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that applies one or more styles to the tick marks that appear after the track of a slider control. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2156 ::-ms-ticks-before CSS, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-ticks-before CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that applies one or more styles to the tick marks that appear before the track of a slider control. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2157 ::-ms-tooltip CSS, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-tooltip CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents the tooltip of a slider control. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2158 ::-ms-track CSS, NeedsBrowserCompatibility, NeedsCompatTable, NeedsExample, NeedsMobileBrowserCompatibility, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-track CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that represents the track of a slider control. A slider control is one possible representation of <input type="range">.
2159 ::-ms-value CSS, Non-standard, Pseudo-element, Reference, Selector
The ::-ms-value CSS pseudo-element is a Microsoft extension that applies rules to the value of a text or password <input> control or the content of a <select> control.
2160 @media
Parent for archived media features.
2161 -moz-mac-graphite-theme -moz-mac-graphite-theme, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
The -moz-mac-graphite-theme Gecko-only CSS media feature can be used to apply styles based on whether the user has the Mac OS X "Graphite" theme enabled.
2162 -moz-maemo-classic -moz-maemo-classic, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
The -moz-maemo-classic Gecko-only CSS media feature can be used to apply styles based on whether the user agent is using the original Maemo theme.
2163 -moz-os-version @media, CSS, Non-standard, media feature
The -moz-os-version Gecko-only CSS media feature can be used to apply styles based on the user's version of Microsoft Windows. This can be useful for adapting application skins and other chrome code depending on the user's operating system version.
2164 -moz-scrollbar-end-backward -moz-scrollbar-end-backward, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
If the device's user interface displays a backward arrow button at the end of scrollbars, this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2165 -moz-scrollbar-end-forward -moz-scrollbar-end-forward, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
If the device's user interface displays a forward arrow button at the end of scrollbars, this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2166 -moz-scrollbar-start-backward -moz-scrollbar-start-backward, @media, CSS, Mozilla, Non-standard, media feature
If the device's user interface displays a backward arrow button at the beginning of scrollbars, this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2167 -moz-scrollbar-start-forward -moz-scrollbar-start-forward, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
If the device's user interface displays a forward arrow button at the beginning of scrollbars, this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2168 -moz-scrollbar-thumb-proportional -moz-scrollbar-thumb-proportional, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
If the device's user interface displays the thumb of scrollbars proportionally (that is, sized based on the percentage of the document that is visible), this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2169 -moz-touch-enabled -moz-touch-enabled, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
If the device supports touch events (for a touch screen), this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2170 -moz-windows-accent-color-in-titlebar -moz-windows-accent-color-in-titlebar, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
The -moz-windows-accent-color-in-titlebar Gecko-only CSS media feature can be used to apply styles based on whether accent colors are enabled in Microsoft Windows titlebars.
2171 -moz-windows-classic -moz-windows-classic, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
If the user is using Windows unthemed (in classic mode instead of using uxtheme), this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2172 -moz-windows-default-theme @media, CSS, Non-standard, media feature
If the user is using one of the default Windows themes—Luna, Royale, Zune, or Aero (including Vista Basic, Vista Advanced, and Aero Glass)—this is 1. Otherwise it's 0.
2173 -moz-windows-glass -moz-windows-glass, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Mozilla, Non-standard, media feature
If the user is using Windows Glass theme, this is 1; otherwise it's 0. Note that this only exists for Windows 7 and earlier.
2174 -moz-windows-theme -moz-windows-theme, @media, CSS, CSS:Mozilla Extensions, Non-standard, media feature
The -moz-windows-theme Gecko-only CSS media feature is useful for customizing application skins and other chrome code to work well with the user's Windows theme.
2175 azimuth CSS, CSS Property, Deprecated, NeedsUpdate, Reference, recipe:css-property
In combination with elevation, the azimuth CSS property enables different audio sources to be positioned spatially for aural presentation. This is important in that it provides a natural way to tell several voices apart, as each can be positioned to originate at a different location on the sound stage. Stereo output produce a lateral sound stage, while binaural headphones and multi-speaker setups allow for a fully three-dimensional stage.
2176 display-inside CSS, CSS Display, CSS Property, Experimental, Graphics, Layout, NeedsExample, Reference, Web
The display-inside CSS property specifies the inner display type of the box generated by an element, dictating how its contents lay out inside the box.
2177 display-outside CSS, CSS Display, CSS Property, Experimental, Graphics, Layout, NeedsExample, Reference, Web
The display-outside CSS property specifies the outer display type of the box generated by an element, dictating how the element participates in its parent formatting context.
2178 Displaying notifications (deprecated) DOM, Mobile, Notifications, Obsolete
Firefox offers support for "desktop notifications"; these are notifications that are displayed to the user outside the context of the web content, using the standard notification system provided by the operating system.
2179 E4X Obsolete
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is a programming language extension that adds native XML support to JavaScript. It does this by providing access to the XML document in a form that feels natural for ECMAScript programmers. The goal is to provide an alternative, simpler syntax for accessing XML documents than via DOM interfaces. A valid alternative to E4X is a non-native JXON algorithm.
2180 E4X for templating E4X
E4X can be used for creating templates for dynamic content.
2181 Processing XML with E4X Obsolete
First introduced in JavaScript 1.6, E4X introduces a native XML object to the JavaScript language, and adds syntax for embedding literal XML documents in JavaScript code.
2182 E4X Tutorial E4X, JavaScript, XML
This tutorial walks you through the basic syntax of E4X (ECMAScript for XML). With E4X, programmers can manipulate an XML document with a syntax more familiar to JavaScript programming.
2183 Accessing XML children
Normal JavaScript Objects use the . operator or [] notation to set properties.
2184 Descendants and Filters
In many cases, the node that you're interested in is not the direct child of the top XML element. Instead, it may be nested several levels down. You can access nodes at any depth using the .. operator, or by using the descendants property. For instance
2185 Introduction E4X, JavaScript, XML
With E4X enabled, basic XML elements are valid syntax for variables. For instance
2186 Namespaces
Oftentimes, XML documents will contain elements from a variety of namespaces. You can declare the default namespace for your E4X objects by placing the statement:
2187 The global XML object
E4X-capable JavaScript engines put a new property on the global object. The XML object has several properties that allow you to customize parsing and serialization of E4X. XML elements will remember the settings of the XML object from the time of their creation.
2188 Iterator Deprecated, JavaScript, Legacy Iterator, Reference
The Iterator function returns an object which implements legacy iterator protocol and iterates over enumerable properties of an object.
2189 LiveConnect Java, LiveConnect
(Please update or remove as needed.)
2190 LiveConnect Overview Advanced, Java, JavaScript, LiveConnect
This chapter describes using LiveConnect technology to let Java and JavaScript code communicate with each other. The chapter assumes you are familiar with Java programming.
2191 LiveConnect Reference
This section documents the Java classes used for LiveConnect, along with their constructors and methods.
2192 JSException
The public class JSException extends RuntimeException
2193 JSObject
The public final class netscape.javascript.JSObject extends Object.
2194 MSX Emulator (jsMSX) Canvas_examples, Examples, HTML:Canvas
No summary!
2195 Old Proxy API Obsolete
Proxies are objects for which the programmer has to define the semantics in JavaScript. The default object semantics are implemented in the JavaScript engine, often written in lower-level languages like C++. Proxies let the programmer define most of the behavior of an object in JavaScript. They are said to provide a meta-programming API.
2196 ParallelArray JavaScript, Obsolete, ParallelArray
The goal of ParallelArray was to enable data-parallelism in web applications. The higher-order functions available on ParallelArray attempted to execute in parallel, though they may fall back to sequential execution if necessary. To ensure that your code executes in parallel, it is suggested that the functions should be limited to the parallelizable subset of JS that Firefox supports.
2197 Properly Using CSS and JavaScript in XHTML Documents CSS, JavaScript, Web Development, XHTML
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) defines XHTML to be a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application.
2198 Examples CSS, JavaScript, Web Development, XHTML
This page contains the source code of the examples related to the "Properly Using CSS and JavaScript in XHTML Documents" article.
2199 RDF: Resource Description Framework for metadata Metadata Model, RDF, Resource Description, Resource Description Framework, metadata, resources
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of specifications for a metadata model that is often implemented as an application of XML.
2200 Reference
The guide section links to an interesting document discussing how to create and use private variables in objects, which is great if you want to protect the various properties within an object from being poked at accidentally. I also just read a document on proper inheritance using apply(). Well if you combine the two, you can have inherited private variables:
2201 Server-Side JavaScript
Here's a radical idea: Use one language to write entire Web apps -- the same language which billions of web pages already use, every day.
2202 Back to the Server: Server-Side JavaScript On The Rise
by Davey Waterson, JavaScript Architect, Aptana
2203 Sharp variables in JavaScript JavaScript, Obsolete
A sharp variable is a syntax in object initializers that allows serialization of objects that have cyclic references or multiple references to the same object.
2204 Standards-Compliant Authoring Tools HTML:Tools, Tools, XHTML, XHTML:Tools
Creating cross-browser code upfront will save you lots of time quality testing your web content. The following authoring tools adhere to the W3 standards. If you're using older versions of tools that rely on old browser bugs or generate browser-specific code, it may be time to upgrade:
2205 StopIteration Deprecated, JavaScript, Legacy Iterator, Reference, StopIteration
The StopIteration object was used to tell the end of the iteration in the legacy iterator protocol. Do not use this ancient feature.
2206 Styling the Amazing Netscape Fish Cam Page CSS
No summary!
2207 Using JavaScript Generators in Firefox
Generators can be used to simplify asynchronous code in Firefox by opting in to using JavaScript version 1.7 or later. You can opt in in HTML as follows:
2208 Window.importDialog() API, Archive, Archived, DOM, DOM Reference, Method, Non-standard, Obsolete, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2), WebAPI
Because opening windows on mobile isn't necessarily appropriate, the Firefox Mobile team designed the importDialog() method to replace window.openDialog(). Instead of opening a new window, it merges the specified XUL dialog into the main window.
2209 Window: devicelight event Reference, Sensors, Web, events
The devicelight event is fired when fresh data is available from a light sensor.
2210 Writing JavaScript for XHTML JavaScript, XHTML, XML
In practise, very few XHTML documents are served over the Web with the correct MIME media type, application/xhtml+xml. Whilst authored to the stricter rules of XML, they are sent with the media type for HTML (text/html). The receiving browser considers the content to be HTML, and does not utilise its XML parser.
2211 XForms Archive, Archived, Obsolete, XForms
XForms were envisioned as the future of online forms as envisioned by the W3C. Drawing on other W3C standards like XML Schema, XPath, and XML Events, XForms tried to address some of the limitations of the current HTML forms model. However, XForms never gained traction and is now considered obsolete.
2212 Building Mozilla XForms XForms
Things to know first:
2213 Community XForms
No summary!
2214 Developing Mozilla XForms
Always start with a debug build of the xforms and the schema-validation extensions. See Building Mozilla XForms for a .mozconfig for debug builds. You should create a new, clean profile for debugging. Then start Firefox out of the build directory:
2215 Implementation Status
The extension has some limitations and custom extension to the XForms 1.1 specification. These can be found on the Mozilla XForms Specials page.
2216 Mozilla XForms Specials XForms
No summary!
2217 Mozilla XForms User Interface XForms
This article is a quick reference of the XForms user interface elements. Mainly this is aimed to document how XForms elements will be presented in Mozilla since the XForms specifications give only a hint of how controls might be rendered.
2218 XForms Alert Element XForms
No summary!
2219 XForms Group Element XForms
The group element is used as a container for defining a hierarchy of form controls. Groups can be nested to create complex hierarchies.
2220 XForms Help Element XForms
No summary!
2221 XForms Hint Element XForms
No summary!
2222 XForms Input Element XForms
No summary!
2223 XForms Label Element XForms
No summary!
2224 XForms Message Element XForms
No summary!
2225 XForms Output Element XForms
No summary!
2226 XForms Range Element XForms
No summary!
2227 XForms Repeat Element XForms
No summary!
2228 XForms Secret Element XForms
No summary!
2229 XForms Select Element XForms
No summary!
2230 XForms Select1 Element XForms
No summary!
2231 XForms Submit Element XForms
This form control initiates a submission. The result of which is all or part of an instance document being sent to a target destination, which could be local or remote (see the spec). Upon receiving a DOMActivate event, this form control dispatches a xforms-submit event to the submission element (see the spec) specified in its submission attibute.
2232 XForms Switch Module XForms
XForms Switch Module define a switch construct that allows the creation of user interfaces where the user interface can be varied based on user actions and events. The module defines for this switch, case and toggle elements.
2233 XForms Textarea Element XForms
No summary!
2234 XForms Trigger Element XForms
Allows the user to initiate actions (see the spec). Actions are described by the XForms Action Module (see the spec).
2235 XForms Upload Element XForms
No summary!
2236 Other Resources XForms
No summary!
2237 Requests For Enhancement XForms
No summary!
2238 RFE to the Custom Controls XForms
No summary!
2239 RFE to the Custom Controls Interfaces XForms
No summary!
2240 RFE to the XForms API XForms
No summary!
2241 Troubleshooting XForms Forms XForms
No summary!
2242 Using XForms and PHP XForms
No summary!
2243 XForms API Reference XForms
The XForms interfaces has the following naming convention:
2244 XForms Config Variables XForms
No summary!
2245 XForms Custom Controls XForms
You are in the right place if you would like to create your own custom renderings of the XForms controls like input, output, trigger, etc. We will also show you how to create custom controls that work with the XForms model and are automatically updated just like XForms controls. The purpose of this article is to give you enough background information so that you'll be able to get a good start. To really grasp the following information, a good understanding of XForms, XBL, JavaScript and CSS is needed. XPCOM knowledge will certainly not hurt. But even if you are only comfortable with a couple of these technologies, we hope that the possibilities outlined below will inspire you to learn more where you need to.
2246 XForms Custom Controls Examples XForms
No summary!
2247 XForms Styling XForms
No summary!
2248 background-size
Should not the "Browser compatibility" table also list Google Chrome and Konqueror? Chome is not mentioned at all, but is becoming increasingly popular. Konqueror is listed below the table, which seems inconsistent. Znerd 04 August 2009
2249 forEach
Ok, in the end I didn't remove the old code as it isn't hosted anywhere (I thought the github reference contained the code) but inserted a faster implementation above while retaining the rest of the document.
3239 Beginner tutorials
This page includes archived beginners tutorials, from various places around MDN.
3240 Creating reusable content with CSS and XBL Advanced, CSS, CSS:Getting_Started, Example, Guide, NeedsUpdate, Web, XBL
This page illustrates how you can use CSS in Mozilla to improve the structure of complex applications, making code and resources more easily reusable.
3241 Underscores in class and ID Names CSS
Summary: The use of the underscore character in CSS can lead to major display problems in multiple browsers. Learn why this is so, and how to keep your sites from being bitten by this problem. This technical note examines the use of underscores in CSS, and why they should be generally avoided in most circumstances.
3242 XML data CSS, CSS:Getting_Started, Example, Guide, Intermediate, NeedsUpdate, Web
This page contains an example of how you can use CSS with XML data.
3243 XUL user interfaces Advanced, CSS, CSS:Getting_Started, Example, Guide, NeedsUpdate, Web, XUL
This page illustrates Mozilla's specialized language for creating user interfaces.
3244 CSS3 CSS, NeedsUpdate, Reference
CSS3 is the latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language and aims at extending CSS2.1. It brings a lot of long-awaited novelties, like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, transitions or animations, as well as new layouts like multi-columns, flexible box or grid layouts.
3245 Case Sensitivity in class and id Names CSS, HTML
No summary!
3246 Creating a dynamic status bar extension Add-ons, Extensions, NeedsUpdate
Concepts covered in the previous sample won't be reiterated here; instead, refer to the downloadable sample code or to the previous sample for further details.
3247 Creating a status bar extension Add-ons, Extensions, NeedsUpdate
Many of the concepts introduced here apply to any XUL-based application; however, to keep from getting completely overwhelmed, we're going to focus specifically on Firefox.
3248 Element RSS, RSS:Element_Reference
No summary!
3249 title RSS, RSS:Element_Reference
<title>...</title> - The RSS Title element has 4 uses. It is used to specify thetitle of a <channel>, an <image>, an <item>, or a <textinput>.
3250 Events
Archived event pages
3251 DOMSubtreeModified
The following code will display the time of last DOM Change on the title bar of the page.
3252 MozAudioAvailable
The MozAudioAvailable event is fired when the audio buffer is full and the corresponding raw samples are available.
3253 MozBeforeResize
The MozBeforeResize event is executed before a browser window is resized.
3254 MozOrientation DOM, Orientation
An event that is repeatedly fired on the window as accelerator data is provided to the browser.
3255 beforecopy Obsolete, events
The beforecopy event was part of copy logic override, a feature of the Clipboard API added in January 2014 and removed in April 2016.
3256 beforecut Obsolete, events
No summary!
3257 beforepaste Obsolete, events
No summary!
3258 cached
The cached event is fired when the resources listed in the application cache manifest have been downloaded, and the application is now cached.
3259 chargingchange Event
The chargingchange event is fired when the charging attribute of the battery API has changed.
3260 chargingtimechange Event
The chargingtimechange event is fired when the chargingTime attribute of the battery API has changed.
3261 checking
The checking event is fired when the user agent is checking for an update, or attempting to download the cache manifest for the first time.
3262 dischargingtimechange Event
The dischargingtimechange event is fired when the dischargingTime attribute of the battery API has changed.
3263 downloading
The downloading event is fired after checking for an application cache update, if the user agent has found an update and is fetching it, or is downloading the resources listed by the cache manifest for the first time.
3264 error
The error event is fired when an error occurred while downloading the cache manifest or updating the content of the application.
3265 levelchange
The levelchange event is fired when the level attribute of the battery API has changed.
3266 noupdate
The noupdate event is fired after checking for an application cache update, if the manifest hasn't changed.
3267 obsolete
The obsolete event is fired when the manifest was found to have become a 404 or 410 page, so the application cache is being deleted.
3268 progress
The progress event is fired when the user agent is downloading resources listed by the manifest.
3269 sort Obsolete, Tables, events, sort
The sort event was part of the table sorting algorithm in the table sorting model, a feature of the HTML 5 Working Draft added in December 2012 and removed in January 2016.
3270 updateready
The updateready event is fired when the resources listed in the application cache manifest have been newly redownloaded, and the script can use swapCache() to switch to the new cache.
3271 Firefox Developer Tools
These are articles related to the Firefox Developer Tools, which are no longer current.
3272 Scratchpad Scratchpad, Tools, Web Development, Web Development:Tools
Scratchpad provides an environment for experimenting with JavaScript code. You can write, run, and examine the results of code that interacts with the web page.
3273 Settings
The Debugger has its own settings menu, which you can access from an icon in the toolbar:
3274 Gecko Compatibility Handbook Cross-browser_Development, Gecko, Web Development
** Notes ** - The Solution Quick Reference needs more attention. - I'm also looking for a way to organize all that information. - Some inline examples were removed because of technical limitations. They are actually replaced by ''-(EXAMPLE REMOVED)-'' The goal of this handbook is to help you update websites to work with standards-based browsers and properly detect Gecko.
3275 Getting the page URL in NPAPI plugin Add-ons, NPAPI, Plugins
Sometimes, you want to restrict an NPAPI plugin to be loadable only from a certain URL or domain or scheme. Or whenever you make network requests yourself, you almost always need to enforce same-origin policy.
3282 Index Archive, Index
Found 3833 pages:
3283 Index of archived content
No summary!
3284 Inner-browsing extending the browser navigation paradigm
This article is the version from 2003 with slight modifications (no images and no links to samples). It's here for reference.
3285 Install.js Add-ons, Extensions, XPInstall_API_reference
See also this article from XulPlanet's Main Tutorial.
3286 JXON AJAX, DOM, Document, JSON, JXON, Object, Object-Oriented, XML, XMLHttpRequest, XPath
JXON (lossless JavaScript XML Object Notation) is a generic name by which is defined the representation of JavaScript Objects using XML. There are no real standards for this conversion, but some conventions begin to appear on the web. There are some cases in which the whole content of an XML document must be read from the JavaScript interpreter (like for web-apps languages or settings XML documents, for example). In these cases JXON could represent the most practical way.
3287 List of Former Mozilla-Based Applications
The following is a list of all known applications that at one point used Mozilla technologies or that are no longer being actively maintained.
3288 List of Mozilla-Based Applications Apps
The following is a list of all known active applications that are built using Mozilla technologies. This list is likely to be incomplete since we think there are many dark matter projects that we don't know about. If you have information about a new project or extra information about an existing project, please feel free to update this page.
3289 Localizing an extension Add-ons, Extensions, Internationalization, Localization
This article expands upon the previous samples on extension writing by adding localization support to our stock watcher extension. Performing a few simple steps makes your extension much easier to localize into various languages without having to edit the XUL or JavaScript files themselves.
3355 MMgc Tamarin
MMgc is the Tamarin (nรฉe Macromedia) garbage collector, a memory management library that has been built as part of the AVM2/Tamarin effort. It is a static library that is linked into the Flash Player but kept separate, and can be incorporated into other programs.
3356 Makefile - .mk files
No summary!
3415 Misc top level
These pages were moved from the top level of MDN in a spate of furious reorganization.
3416 Bypassing Security Restrictions and Signing Code Security, Web Development
Early versions of Firefox allowed web sites to segregate principals using signed scripts, and request extra permissions for scopes within signed scripts using a function called enablePrivelege. These Privilege Manager feature was not used much (aside from abuse), and its complexity made performance improvements difficult. Signed script segregation was removed in bug 726125, the enablePrivilege prompt was removed in bug 750859, and enablePrivilege itself was nerfed in bug 757046.
3417 Creating a Web based tone generator
This example creates a simple tone generator, and plays the resulting tone. The function requestSoundData() produces the samples to be played. This function is called at a certain interval through the setInterval() function. The function mozWriteAudio() is called to write those samples produced in the audio stream. In order to always have samples to play, a buffer of 500 ms is created. The function mozCurrentSampleOffset() is used to know the position of the samples being played so that we can fill a 500 ms buffer of audio samples.
3418 Defining Cross-Browser Tooltips CSS, Cross-browser_Development, Guide, Junk, Web Development
Summary: Authors are used to having alt text appear as a &quot;tooltip&quot; above images, but that's not how it was meant to be used. Learn how to define &quot;tooltips&quot; in a cross-browser, standards-friendly way. Authors are used to using the alt attribute to create "tooltips" in Web browsers. The classic example is a "tooltip" of an image; when the user pauses the mouse pointer over an image, the contents of the alt attribute are displayed as a "tooltip." Gecko-based browsers such as Mozilla, Netscape 6+, and Compuserve 7 do not support this behavior. See bug 25537 for a lengthy, sometimes passionate discussion of Gecko's behavior in this regard.
3419 Environment variables affecting crash reporting Crash_reporting
No summary!
3420 IO Guide
No summary!
3421 Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps CSS, Guide, Reference
Almost no matter when you started creating Web pages, odds are pretty high you have one or more designs based on the classic "convoluted tables and lots of images" paradigm. Whether you've sliced up a logo so it fits in well with the design, or used tons of single-pixel spacer GIFs, the principles (and perils) remain largely the same. Back in the early days, this approach worked, because browsers would usually make a table cell exactly as wide and tall as an image it contained.
3422 Installing plugins to Gecko embedding browsers on Windows Add-ons, Plugins
This document presents the Windows Registry keys plugin installers can parse to determine where to install a given plugin (for Mozilla browsers) on Windows. Since the prospect of embedded Gecko browsers raises the scenario of more than one Gecko-based browser that a Netscape-style plugin can work with, it becomes important to let plugin developers know how to discover these browsers on a Windows machine.
3423 MCD, Mission Control Desktop, AKA AutoConfig Administration, Configuration management, enterprise
This document is a concrete example of a centralized auto-configuration of Mozilla apps, that are; Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite 1.x.x, Seamonkey and for the record, old Netscape 4.x. Its original inspiration comes from http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/ and http://mit.edu/~firefox/www/maintain...utoconfig.html. For history, I've kept Mozilla and Netscape chapters, as certain points are complementary to the web-based AutoConfig file.
3424 Monitoring WiFi access points WiFi
Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain information about them including their SSID, MAC address, and signal strength. This capability was introduced primarily to allow WiFi-based location services to be used by geolocation services.
3425 No Proxy For configuration Administration, Configuration management, Guide, NeedsUpdate
This document provides a comprehensive discussion of the manual proxy feature "No Proxy for:", including configuration issues, testing and bugs.
3426 Notes on HTML Reflow Gecko
Reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine's formatting objects are computed. The HTML formatting objects are called frames : a frame corresponds to the geometric information for (roughly) a single element in the content model; the frames are arranged into a hierarchy that parallels the containment hierarchy in the content model. A frame is rectangular, with width, height, and an offset from the parent frame that contains it.
3427 Same-origin policy for file: URIs Same-origin policy, Security, XMLHttpRequest
In Gecko 1.8 or earlier, any two file: URIs are considered to be same-origin. In other words, any HTML file on your local disk can read any other file on your local disk.
3428 Source Navigator
Note: This document is still in the draft state. I hope I can finish it within one day or two if I have more time. ;) --Kennykaiyinyu 19:04, 10 June 2008 (PDT)
3429 Source code directories overview Developing Mozilla
No summary!
3430 Using XML Data Islands in Mozilla HTML5, XML
Internet Explorer had an "XML Data Islands" feature that allows Web authors include XML data inline in HTML documents using the <xml> tag. This feature is not based on multi-vendor Web standards and is not supported in Firefox (or other non-IE browsers). XML data islands are no longer supported from Internet Explorer 10 onwards.
3431 Using content preferences Firefox 3
Firefox 3 introduces the concept of content preferences. This permits code running within chrome (in other words: extensions and the browser itself, not web sites) to locally save preferences on a per-site basis. This makes it possible to write an extension that lets the user customize the appearance of specific web sites (setting the font size larger on sites that use obnoxiously small fonts, for instance).
3432 Visualizing an audio spectrum
This example calculates and displays Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectrum data for the playing audio. The function handling the loadedMetaData event stores the metadata of the audio element in global variables; the function for the MozAudioAvailable event does an FFT of the samples and displays them in a canvas.
3433 Working with BFCache Cache, Developing Mozilla, Guide
Q: What is the BFCache exactly?
3434 cert_override.txt
cert_override.txt is a text file generated in the user profile to store certificate exceptions specified by the user. This file is used by Firefox, Thunderbird, and other XUL-based applications.
3435 Mozilla release FAQ Developing Mozilla, NeedsHelp, NeedsUpdate, Outdated_articles
This document may be distributed and modified freely. No guarantee of factuality in this FAQ is made, and it is maintained by Pat Gunn, who is not affiliated with Netscape. Various other people have contributed to this FAQ.
3438 Newsgroup summaries
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3439 Format
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3440 Mozilla.dev.apps.firefox-2006-09-29
None this week.
3441 Mozilla.dev.apps.firefox-2006-10-06
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3442 mozilla-dev-accessibility
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3443 2006-10-06
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3444 2006-11-10
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3445 2006-11-22
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3446 mozilla-dev-apps-calendar
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3447 2006-09-29
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3448 2006-10-06
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3449 mozilla-dev-apps-firefox
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3450 2006-09-29
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3451 2006-10-06
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3452 2006-10-13
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3453 2006-10-20
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3454 2006-10-26
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3455 2006-10-27
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3456 2006-11-03
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3457 2006-11-04
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3458 2006-11-10
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3459 2006-11-17
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3460 2006-11-24
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3461 2006-12-01
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3462 mozilla-dev-apps-thunderbird
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3463 2006-09-29
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3464 2006-10-06
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3465 2006-10-13
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3466 2006-10-20
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3467 2006-10-27
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3468 2006-11-03
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3469 2006-11-10
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3470 2006-11-17
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3471 2006-11-24
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3472 2006-12-01
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3473 mozilla-dev-builds
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3474 2006-09-29

3475 2006-10-06
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3476 2006-10-13
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3477 2006-10-20
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3478 2006-10-27
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3479 2006-11-03
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3480 2006-11-10
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3481 2006-11-17
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3482 2006-11-24
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3483 2006-12-01
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3484 mozilla-dev-embedding
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3485 mozilla-dev-extensions
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3486 2006-09-29
Return to mozilla-dev-extensions
3487 2006-10-06
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3488 2006-10-13
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3489 2006-10-20
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3490 2006-10-27
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3491 2006-11-03
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3492 2006-11-10
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3493 2006-11-17
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3494 2006-11-24
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3495 2006-12-01
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3496 2006-12-08
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3497 Extentsions FAQ
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3498 mozilla-dev-i18n
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3499 2006-09-22
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3500 mozilla-dev-l10n
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3501 2006-10-06
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3502 2006-10-13
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3503 2006-10-20
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3504 2006-10-27
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3505 2006-11-10
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3506 2006-11-17
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3507 2006-11-24
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3508 2006-11-3
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3509 2006-12-01
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3510 2006-12-08
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3511 mozilla-dev-planning
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3512 2006-07-17
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3513 2006-09-22
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3514 2006-10-06
Beltzner announced FF2 RC2 is availabe for all 3 major platforms in some 40 langauges.
3515 2006-10-13
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3516 2006-10-20
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3517 2006-10-27
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3518 2006-11-03
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3519 2006-11-10
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3520 2006-11-17
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3521 2006-11-24
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3522 2006-12-01
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3523 mozilla-dev-platform
Newsgroup summary for mozilla.dev.platform (Google Groups link) is for people working on the Mozilla Application Framework ("Mozilla-the-platform").
3524 2006-09-29
Summary of newsgroup moz.dev.platform
3525 2006-10-06
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3526 2006-10-13
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3527 2006-10-20
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3528 2006-10-27
Summary: mozilla.dev.platform - October 21st to October 27th 2006
3529 2006-11-03
Summary: mozilla.dev.platform - October 28th - November 3rd, 2006
3530 2006-11-10
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3531 2006-11-17
Summary: mozilla.dev.platform - November 11th - November 17th, 2006
3532 2006-12-01
Summary: mozilla.dev.platform - November 25th - December 1st, 2006
3533 2006-18-24
Summary: mozilla.dev.platform - November 18th - November 24th, 2006
3534 mozilla-dev-quality
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3535 2006-09-29
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3536 2006-10-06
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3537 2006-10-13
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3538 2006-10-20
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3539 2006-10-27
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3540 2006-11-03
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3541 2006-11-10
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3542 2006-11-17
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3543 2006-11-24
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3544 2006-12-01
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3545 mozilla-dev-security
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3546 2006-09-29
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3547 2006-10-06
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3548 2006-10-13
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3549 2006-10-20
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3550 2006-10-27
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3551 2006-11-03
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3552 2006-11-10
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3553 2006-11-17
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3554 2006-11-24
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3555 2006-12-01
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3556 mozilla-dev-tech-js-engine
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3557 2006-09-22
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3558 2006-09-29
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3559 2006-10-06
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3560 2006-10-13
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3561 2006-11-03
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3562 2006-11-10
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3563 2006-11-17
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3564 2006-11-24
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3565 2006-12-01
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3566 JS-Engine FAQ
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3567 mozilla-dev-tech-layout
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3568 2006-09-29
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3569 2006-10-27
None this week.
3570 2006-11-03
None this week.
3571 2006-11-10
None this week.
3572 2006-11-17
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3573 2006-11-24
None this week.
3574 2006-12- 02
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3575 2006-12- 08
None this week.
3576 2006-12-24
None this week.
3577 mozilla-dev-tech-xpcom
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3578 2006-09-06
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3579 2006-09-22
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3580 2006-09-30
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3581 2006-10-13
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3582 2006-10-27
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3583 2006-11-10
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3584 2006-11-17
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3585 2006-11-24
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3586 2006-11-3
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3587 2006-12-01
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3588 2006-12-08
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3589 mozilla-dev-tech-xul
XUL FAQ
3590 2006-09-22
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3591 2006-09-29
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3592 2006-10-06
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3593 2006-10-13
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3594 2006-10-20
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3595 2006-10-27
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3596 2006-11-03
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3597 2006-11-10
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3598 2006-11-17
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3599 2006-11-24
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3600 2006-12-01
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3601 mozilla.dev.apps.calendar
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3602 2006-10-13
None this week.
3603 2006-10-20
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3604 2006-10-27
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3605 2006-11-03
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3606 2006-11-10
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3607 2006-11-17
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3608 2006-11-24
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3609 2006-12-01
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3610 mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine
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3611 2006-10-06
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3612 Obsolete: XPCOM-based scripting for NPAPI plugins
Plugins that used to take advantage of being scriptable via LiveConnect in 4.x Netscape browsers lost this possibility in the new world. The main reason for this is that there is no guarantee of Java compatibility on a binary level due to the jri/jni switch. The new Mozilla XPCOM architecture allows XPCOM components be scriptable via a different mechanism called XPConnect. We leverage some of these ideas to help you make your Netscape Communicator 4.x plugins exposed to JavaScript in Mozilla based browsers.
3613 Plugins Add-ons, NPAPI, Obsolete, Plugins
For more information about plugin roadmap, see non-archived plugin information.
3614 Adobe Flash Add-ons, Addons, Adobe, Flash, Guide, NeedsUpdate, Plugins
This article explains how JavaScript can be used to access methods from within the Flash plugin, as well as how a feature called FSCommands can be used to access JavaScript functions from within the Flash animation. The focus of this article is to present tips on scripting Flash within Gecko™-based web browsers.
3615 External resources for plugin creation Plugins
There are several open source projects designed to assist with the creation of NPAPI plugins. Please note that even when using these, it is still a good idea to have an understanding of what is going on under the hood, regardless of the level of abstraction provided.
3616 Logging Multi-Process Plugins
When multi-process plugins are enabled, Firefox has the ability to dump additional information about interactions between the browser and a plugin. This is done using NSPR logging. Run Firefox in a custom environment to enable this special logging mode.
3617 Monitoring plugins Add-ons, Firefox 3, Plugins
A new component of the plugin system is now available to measure how long it takes plugins (e.g., Adobe Flash) to execute their calls. This component then reports the plugin runtime using the observer service to anyone registered to receive the notifications. This article discusses how developers can make use of this new feature.
3618 Multi-process plugin architecture Add-ons, Electrolysis, IPC, IPDL, Plugins
Plugins are a frequent source of instability or crashes for browser users. When plugins run in the same process as the browser, any leaks or crashes in the plugin will affect the entire browser:
3619 NPAPI plugin developer guide Add-ons, Advanced, Guide, Landing, Plug-ins
Plugins are shared libraries that users can install to display content that the application itself can't display natively. For example, the Adobe Flash plug-in is used to access Flash content (including videos and certain interactive applications), and the QuickTime and RealPlayer plugins are used to play special format videos in a web page.
3620 NPAPI plugin reference Deprecated, Landing, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
The articles below describe each of the APIs related to NPAPI plugins.
3621 Browser-side plug-in API Landing, Method, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2)
This chapter describes methods in the plug-in API that are provided by the browser; these allow call back to the browser to request information, tell the browser to repaint part of the window, and so forth. The names of all of these methods begin with NPN_ to indicate that they are implemented by the browser and called by the plug-in.
3622 NPAPI plug-in side API Add-ons, Deprecated, Landing, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2)
This chapter describes methods in the plug-in API that are available from the plug-in object; these allow plug-ins to interact with the browser. The names of all of these methods begin with NPP_ to indicate that they are implemented by the plug-in and called by the browser.
3623 NPAnyCallbackStruct API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Contains information required during embedded mode printing.
3624 NPByteRange NPAPI, Plugins
Represents a particular range of bytes from a stream.
3625 NPClass NPAPI, Plugins
NPClass is a structure that holds a set of pointers to functions that make up the behavior of an instance of an NPClass (i.e. an NPObject).
3626 NPEmbedPrint NPAPI, Plugins
Substructure of NPPrint that contains platform-specific information used during embedded mode printing.
3627 NPEvent NPAPI, Plugins
Represents an event passed by NPP_HandleEvent() to a windowless plug-in.
3628 NPFullPrint NPAPI, Plugins
Substructure of NPPrint that contains platform-specific information used during full-page mode printing.
3629 NPIdentifier NPAPI, Plugins
NPIdentifier is an opaque type used for method and property identifiers, such as strings or integers. NPIdentifiers are unique, in that for any given string or integer, there is only one NPIdentifier. The lifetime of NPIdentifiers is controlled by the browser.
3630 NPN NewStream NPAPI, Plugins
Requests the creation of a new data stream produced by the plug-in and consumed by the browser.
3631 NPNVariable
See NPN_GetValue.
3632 NPN_CreateObject NPAPI, Plugins
Allocates a new NPObject.
3633 NPN_DestroyStream API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Closes and deletes a stream.
3634 NPN_Enumerate
Gets the names of the properties and methods of the specified NPObject.
3635 NPN_Evaluate NPAPI, Plugins
Evaluates a script in the scope of the specified NPObject.
3636 NPN_ForceRedraw NPAPI, Plugins
Asks the plugin host to immediately (synchronously) repaint invalid areas.
3637 NPN_GetAuthenticationInfo
The function is called by plugins to get HTTP authentication information from the browser.
3638 NPN_GetIntIdentifier NPAPI, Plugins
Returns an opaque identifier for the integer that is passed in.
3639 NPN_GetProperty NPAPI, Plugins
Gets the value of a property on the specified NPObject.
3640 NPN_GetStringIdentifier NPAPI, Plugins
Returns an opaque identifier for the string that is passed in.
3641 NPN_GetStringIdentifiers NPAPI, Plugins
Returns an array of opaque identifiers for the names that are passed in.
3642 NPN_GetURL API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Asks the browser to create a stream for the specified URL.
3643 NPN_GetURLNotify NPAPI, Plugins
Requests creation of a new stream with the contents of the specified URL; gets notification of the result.
3644 NPN_GetValue NPAPI, NeedsHelp, Plugins, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2)
Allows the plug-in to query the browser for information.
3645 NPN_GetValueForURL
Provides information to a plugin which is associated with a given URL, for example the cookies or preferred proxy.
3646 NPN_HasMethod NPAPI, Plugins
Determines whether or not the specified NPObject has a particular method.
3647 NPN_HasProperty NPAPI, Plugins
Determines whether or not the specified NPObject has a particular property.
3648 NPN_IdentifierIsString NPAPI, Plugins
Determines whether or not an identifier is a string.
3649 NPN_IntFromIdentifier NPAPI, Plugins
Returns the integer value corresponding to the given integer identifier.
3650 NPN_InvalidateRect NPAPI, Plugins
Invalidates the specified portion of the plugin's drawing area, adding it to the region that needs to be redrawn when the plugin next repaints its contents.
3651 NPN_InvalidateRegion NPAPI, Plugins
Invalidates the specified drawing region prior to repainting or refreshing a windowless plug-in.
3652 NPN_Invoke NPAPI, Plugins
Invokes a method on the given NPObject.
3653 NPN_InvokeDefault NPAPI, Plugins
Invokes the default method, if one exists, on the given NPObject.
3654 NPN_MemAlloc NPAPI, NeedsMigrationReview, Plugins
Allocates memory from the browser's memory space.
3655 NPN_MemFlush API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Requests that the browser free a specified amount of memory.
3656 NPN_MemFree NPAPI, NeedsMigrationReview, Plugins
Deallocates a block of allocated memory.
3657 NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall NPAPI, Plugins
Thread safe way to request that the browser calls a plug-in function on the browser or plugin thread (the thread on which the plug-in was initiated).
3658 NPN_PostURL NPAPI, NeedsHelp, Plugins, Reference
Posts data to a URL.
3659 NPN_PostURLNotify NPAPI, NeedsHelp, Plugins, Reference
Posts data to a URL, and receives notification of the result.
3660 NPN_ReleaseObject NPAPI, Plugins
Decrements the reference count of the given NPObject. If the reference count reaches 0, the NPObject is deallocated by calling its deallocate function if one is provided; if one is not provided, free() is used.
3661 NPN_ReleaseVariantValue NPAPI, Plugins
NPN_ReleaseVariantValue() releases the value in the given variant.
3662 NPN_ReloadPlugins API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Reloads all of the installed plugins.
3663 NPN_RemoveProperty NPAPI, Plugins
Removes a property from the specified NPObject.
3664 NPN_RequestRead API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Requests a range of bytes from a seekable stream. This initiates a read operation; the actual data is received through subsequent calls to NPP_WriteReady() and NPP_Write().
3665 NPN_RetainObject NPAPI, Plugins
Increments the reference count of the given NPObject.
3666 NPN_SetException NPAPI, Plugins
A plugin can call this function to indicate that a call to one of the plugin's NPObjects generated an error.
3667 NPN_SetProperty NPAPI, Plugins
Sets the value of a property on the specified NPObject.
3668 NPN_SetValue NPAPI, NeedsHelp, Plugins, Reference
Implemented by browsers. This call is used to inform the browser of variable information controlled by the plugin.
3669 NPN_SetValueForURL
Allows a plugin to change the stored information associated with a URL, in particular its cookies. (While the API theoretically allows the preferred proxy for a given URL to be changed, doing so does not have much meaning given how proxies are configured, and is not supported.)
3670 NPN_Status API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Lets a plug-in display a message on the browser's status line.
3671 NPN_UTF8FromIdentifier NPAPI, Plugins
Returns the UTF-8 string corresponding to the given string identifier.
3672 NPN_UserAgent API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Returns the browser's user agent field. This can be used to handle variations in different browsers (or versions thereof) when implementing your plug-in.
3673 NPN_Version API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Lets plugins obtain version information, both of the plug-in API and of the browser itself.
3674 NPN_Write API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Pushes data into a stream produced by the plug-in and consumed by the browser.
3675 NPObject NPAPI, Plugins
NPObject is a structure that holds a pointer to an NPClass and an integer reference count, and possibly also implementation specific (i.e. plugin specific, or browser specific) members.
3676 NPP API, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Represents a single instance of a plug-in. You specify one of these to any NPAPI function that needs to know which plug-in to work with.
3677 NPPVariable
See NPN_SetValue.
3678 NPP_Destroy NPAPI, Plugins
Deletes a specific instance of a plug-in.
3679 NPP_DestroyStream NPAPI, Plugins
Tells the plug-in that a stream is about to be closed or destroyed.
3680 NPP_GetValue NPAPI, Plugins
Allows the browser to query the plug-in for information.
3681 NPP_HandleEvent NPAPI, Plugins
Delivers a platform-specific window event to the instance.
3682 NPP_New NPAPI, Plugins
Creates a new instance of a plug-in.
3683 NPP_NewStream NPAPI, Plugins
Notifies a plug-in instance of a new data stream.
3684 NPP_Print NPAPI, Plugins
Requests a platform-specific print operation for an embedded or full-screen plug-in.
3685 NPP_SetValue NPAPI, Plugins
Implemented by plugins. This call is used to inform plugins of variable information controlled by the browser.
3686 NPP_SetWindow NPAPI, Plugins
Tells the plug-in when a window is created, moved, sized, or destroyed.
3687 NPP_StreamAsFile NPAPI, Plugins
Provides a local file name for the data from a stream.
3688 NPP_URLNotify NPAPI, Plugins
Notifies the plug-in instance of the completion of a URL request.
3689 NPP_Write NPAPI, Plugins
Delivers data to a plug-in instance. (Remark: Hence the name "NPP_Write" is misleading - just think of:"Data_Arrived")
3690 NPP_WriteReady NPAPI, Plugins
Determines maximum number of bytes that the plug-in can consume.
3691 NPPrint NPAPI, Plugins
Contains information the plug-in needs to print itself in full-page or embedded mode.
3692 NPPrintCallbackStruct NPAPI, Plugins
Contains information required by the platformPrint field of the NPEmbedPrint structure during embedded mode printing on Unix systems.
3693 NPRect NPAPI, Plugins
Represents a rectangular area of a plug-in's content area.
3694 NPRegion API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference
Represents a platform-defined region of a page.
3695 NPSavedData NPAPI, Plugins
Block of instance information saved after the plug-in instance is deleted; can be returned to the plug-in to restore the data in future instances of the plug-in.
3696 NPSetWindowCallbackStruct API, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins, Reference, Rรฉfรฉrence(2)
Contains information about the plug-in's Unix window environment.
3697 NPStream NPAPI, Plugins
Represents a stream of data either produced by the browser and consumed by the plug-in, or produced by the plug-in and consumed by the browser.
3698 NPString NPAPI, Plugins
NPString is a struct that holds a pointer to a sequence of 8-bit units (NPUTF8) making up a UTF-8 string, and the number of 8-bit units in the UTF-8 string.
3699 NPUTF8 NPAPI, Plugins
NPUTF8 is a byte representing an 8-bit unit of a UTF-8 character. This is not the same thing as an entire UTF-8 character, which may be comprised of multiple NPUTF8 bytes.
3700 NPVariant NPAPI, Plugins
NPVariant is a struct that holds a value and the type of that value. The value is held in a union, and the type is one of types defined in the NPVariantType enumeration.
3701 NPVariantType NPAPI, Plugins
NPVariantType is an enumeration that is used to identify the data type of an NPVariant structure.
3702 NPWindow NPAPI, Plugins
Contains information about the target into which the plug-in instance can draw.
3703 NP_GetMIMEDescription Add-ons, NPAPI, Plugins
NP_GetMIMEDescription returns a supported MIME Type list for your plugin. It works on Unix (Linux) and MacOS. On Windows you have to define supported mimetypes in the dll resource file.
3704 NP_GetValue NPAPI, Plugins
Allows the browser to query the plug-in for information.
3705 NP_Initialize NPAPI, Plugins
Provides global initialization for a plug-in.
3706 NP_Port NPAPI, Plugins
Contains information required by the window field of an NPWindow structure.
3707 NP_Shutdown NPAPI, Plugins
Provides global deinitialization for a plug-in.
3708 Samples and Test Cases Add-ons, NeedsContent, Plugins
Collections of NPAPI plugin samples can be found in the Seamonkey source code at /modules/plugin/sdk/samples.
3709 Shipping a plugin as a Toolkit bundle Add-ons, Guide, Plugins
One of the new features that is available in Firefox 1.5 is the ability to place browser plugins in a Toolkit bundle.
3710 Supporting private browsing in plugins
Firefox 3.5 introduced private browsing, a mode in which potentially private information is not recorded in any way. It also introduced a mechanism by which plugins can determine whether or not private browsing mode is in effect. Plugins should be updated to monitor the state of private browsing mode and only save private information when private browsing is disabled.
3711 The First Install Problem Add-ons, Plugins
The First Install Problem is the name given to the conditions arising when a plugin or embeddable software installs itself on a system first, before any other Gecko-based browser. If this happens, Gecko-based browsers often won't be able to discover the plugin, and will prompt the user to download the plugin again if the affiliated MIME type is encountered on the Web. Unless Gecko does a pre-emptive scan upon startup for desirable plugins that are not in the browser's plugins directory first, the best way to solve this problem is to encourage plugin vendors to leave DLLs (and XPT files, if applicable) in a location that Gecko can discover at runtime. This document presents a consistent way to do that.
3712 Writing a plugin for Mac OS X Add-ons, Gecko, NPAPI, Plugins
This article is adapted from Josh Aas's blog post Writing an NPAPI plugin for Mac OS X.
3713 XEmbed Extension for Mozilla Plugins Add-ons, Plugins
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.
3714 RSS RSS
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a popular HTML-like XML-based data format used for syndication. RSS has a sordid history and a multitude of different incompatible RSS versions. (Some being based on RDF, but most only being based on XML.) Nonetheless, RSS is an extremely popular format that is used for syndicating news, blog posts, IPradio, and IPTV, with an amazing amount of momentum.
3715 Article
No summary!
3716 Why RSS Content Module is Popular - Including HTML Contents RSS
No summary!
3717 Why RSS Slash is Popular - Counting Your Comments RSS
No summary!
3718 Why Well-Formed Web RSS Module is Popular - Syndicating Your Comments RSS
There aren't many blogs out there that don't allow commenting of blog posts. However, RSS does not provide sufficient facilities for dealing with them. Sure RSS has the <comments> element, but it points to a HTML page that isn't machine readable. It is desirable to be able to deal with comments in the same way one deals with RSS feeds; through syndication. The RSS Well-Formed Web Module exists to fill this gap.
3719 Entity list NeedsContent, RSS, Reference
This page provides a list of the entities supported by various versions of RSS.
3720 Getting Started Guide, NeedsUpdate, RSS, RSS:Getting_Started
This tutorial is an introduction to Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
3721 How RSS Works RSS, RSS:Getting_Started
This page explains how RSS works. You will not yet be creating your own RSS files, but you will be learning about the different systems that come into play with RSS syndication.
3722 Syndicating content with RSS Guide, RSS, RSS:Getting_Started
RSS is a tool which helps to syndicate your content by organizing it into a form that's easy for machines to parse and reuse. This article provides a simple guide to using RSS to syndicate Web content.
3723 What is RSS RSS, RSS:Getting_Started
This page explains what RSS is. You will not yet be creating your own RSS files, but you will be seeing how RSS is commonly used and simple example RSS files for these common uses. You will also be getting a little history on RSS.
3724 Why use RSS RSS, RSS:Getting_Started
This page explains why you would want to use RSS. You will not yet be creating your own RSS files, but you will be learning about reasons to use it.
3725 Module RSS
RSS Modules are microformats injected into an RSS document through the use of XML namespaces. They are ways of extending RSS. Below is a list of the popular RSS modules.
3726 Atomic RSS NeedsContent, NeedsExample, RSS, RSS:Modules
"Getting Started" box, if there is no "Getting Started" article yet written, should be populated with another feature article or tutorial, should one exist. Otherwise, just comment it out
3727 Content NeedsContent, NeedsHelp, RSS, RSS:Modules
"Getting Started" box, if there is no "Getting Started" article yet written, should be populated with another feature article or tutorial, should one exist. Otherwise, just comment it out
3728 Slash RSS, RSS:Modules
The RSS Slash Module is popular among Slash based blogs and blogs imitating the feel for Slashdot. Slash is the engine behind the famous Slashdot.
3729 Element RSS, RSS:Element_Reference
No summary!
3730 Well-Formed Web Landing, NeedsContent, RSS, RSS:Modules
The Well-Formed Web RSS Module provides facilities for <item> level commenting: for linking to comments contained in an external RSS Feed, and for posting new comments.
3731 Element RSS, RSS:Element_Reference
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3732 Other Resources RSS
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3733 Proposal RSS
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3734 Use Case RSS
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3735 Version RSS
RSS has a sordid history. Different people and groups have largely unilaterally created specifications that they called RSS. Some RSS formats are XML-based formats. And some RSS formats are RDF-based formats.
3736 0.90 RSS
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3737 0.91 RSS
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3738 SAX Add-ons, Extensions
SAX, short forSimple API for XML, is a parsing API. SAX was the first widely adopted API for XML in Java, and later implemented in several other programming language environments. Starting with Firefox 2, a SAX parser is available to XUL applications and extensions. For more information, please see SAX homepage.
3739 Security
Relying on these obsolete security articles is highly discouraged. Doing so may put your systems at risk.
3740 Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability Beginning, Security, Tutorial
The classic model for information security defines three objectives of security: maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Each objective addresses a different aspect of providing protection for information.
3741 Digital Signatures Security, Tutorial
Encryption and decryption address the problem of eavesdropping, one of the three Internet security issues mentioned at the beginning of this document. But encryption and decryption, by themselves, do not address another problem: tampering.
3742 Encryption and Decryption Security, Tutorial
Encryption is the process of transforming information so it is unintelligible to anyone but the intended recipient. Decryption is the process of transforming encrypted information so that it is intelligible again.
3743 Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography Security, Tutorial
Public-key cryptography and related standards and techniques underlie the security features of many products such as signed and encrypted email, single sign-on, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communications. This document introduces the basic concepts of public-key cryptography. 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."
3744 Introduction to SSL SSL, Security
This document introduces the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL has been universally accepted on the World Wide Web for authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers.
3745 NSPR Release Engineering Guide NSPR
This paper is for engineers performing formal release for the NetScape Portable Runtime (NSPR) across all platforms.
3746 SSL and TLS Security, Tutorial
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols are universally accepted standards for authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers. Both client and server authentication occur over SSL/TLS.
3747 Security Controls Beginner, Security, Tutorial
Sensitive data should be protected based on the potential impact of a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Protection measures (otherwise known as security controls) tend to fall into two categories. First, security weaknesses in the system need to be resolved. For example, if a system has a known vulnerability that attackers could exploit, the system should be patched so that the vulnerability is removed or mitigated. Second, the system should offer only the required functionality to each authorized user, so that no one can use functions that are not necessary. This principle is known as least privilege. Limiting functionality and resolving security weaknesses have a common goal: give attackers as few opportunities as possible to breach a system.
3748 TCP/IP Security Beginner, Networking, Security, Tutorial
TCP/IP is widely used throughout the world to provide network communications. TCP/IP communications are composed of four layers that work together. When a user wants to transfer data across networks, the data is passed from the highest layer through intermediate layers to the lowest layer, with each layer adding information. At each layer, the logical units are typically composed of a header and a payload. The payload consists of the information passed down from the previous layer, while the header contains layer-specific information such as addresses. At the application layer, the payload is the actual application data. The lowest layer sends the accumulated data through the physical network; the data is then passed up through the layers to its destination. Essentially, the data produced by a layer is encapsulated in a larger container by the layer below it. The four TCP/IP layers, from highest to lowest, are shown below.
3749 Threats Beginner, Security, Tutorial
A threat is any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely impact data or systems via unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure, or modification of information, and/or denial of service. Threats may involve intentional actors (e.g., attacker who wants to access information on a server) or unintentional actors (e.g., administrator who forgets to disable user accounts of a former employee.) Threats can be local, such as a disgruntled employee, or remote, such as an attacker in another geographical area.
3750 Vulnerabilities Beginner, Security, Tutorial, Vulnerabilities, Web security
A vulnerability is a weakness in a system that can be exploited to negatively impact confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability. There are many ways in which vulnerabilities can be categorized. This article uses three high-level vulnerability categories: software flaws, security configuration issues, and software feature misuse. These categories are described below.
3774 Solaris 10 Build Prerequisites
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3775 Sunbird Theme Tutorial Add-ons, Themes
This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to making a theme for Sunbird 0.3a1 and later versions. It is designed for beginners. It does not cover advanced topics.
3776 Table Reflow Internals Gecko
Key:
3777 Tamarin Tracing Build Documentation
The following instructions are for obtaining and building the Tamarin Tracing source code. For instructions on Tamarin Central, please see
3778 The Basics of Web Services SOAP, XML, XML Web Services
Summary: A current hot topic on the web right now are Web Services. This short guide will allow you to learn more about web services.
3779 Themes
Archived theme documentation.
3780 Building a Theme NeedsUpdate
This tutorial will take you through the steps required to build a very basic theme - one which updates the background color of the toolbars in Firefox.
3781 Common Firefox theme issues and solutions Add-ons, Firefox, Look & Feel, Themes
The purpose of this page is to provide provide theme developers with notes on how to fix common issues. It is a companion document to the AMO editors guide Common Theme Problems, which provides editors with "boilerplate" copy and paste review notes for common theme issues. This document was started on July 27, 2012 so it will take some time to completely fill in and some issues still need to have solutions written for them.
3782 Create Your Own Firefox Background Theme
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3783 Creating a Skin for Firefox Add-ons, Themes
In order to create a skin for Firefox, there are three things you need to know: how to edit images, how to extract zip files, and how to modify CSS. Firefox uses standard GIF, PNG, and JPEG images for the buttons and CSS to style everything else in the interface.
3784 UUID Add-ons, Themes
A UUID can be obtained by visiting http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen or by typing "firebot: uuid?" on irc.mozilla.org in a channel where nickname "firebot" is present. Or you can also type "/query firebot uuid?" in any tab connected to the irc.mozilla.org (or, with ChatZilla, "moznet") network.
3785 contents.rdf Add-ons, Themes
Copy the following text and paste it into a text file, then save that file as "contents.rdf":
3786 install.rdf Add-ons, Themes
Copy the following text and paste it into a text file, then save that file as "install.rdf":
3787 Making sure your theme works with RTL locales Add-ons, Right-to-left, Themes
Some languages are written from right to left. Of the languages Firefox and Thunderbird are shipped in, that includes Arabic and Hebrew, with Persian available as beta, for a total population in excess of 100 million potential users. The important thing to understand about these locales, is that the entire interface is mirrored right-to-left. That means that text that had a left margin will have a right margin instead (or -moz-margin-start), arrows that pointed right will have to point left and vice versa, and so on.
3788 Theme changes in Firefox 2 Add-ons, Themes
This article covers the changes that need to be made to update a Firefox theme to work properly in Firefox 2.
3789 Theme changes in Firefox 3 Add-ons, NeedsUpdate, Themes
This article covers the changes that need to be made to update a Firefox theme to work properly in Firefox 3.
3790 Theme changes in Firefox 3.5
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3791 Theme changes in Firefox 4 Firefox 4, Themes
This article covers changes in Firefox 4 that affect theme developers.
3792 Updating an extension to support multiple Mozilla applications Add-ons, Extensions
This article shows how to take an existing extension and update it so that it can be used in additional Mozilla applications. We'll build upon the stock watcher extension created in earlier articles in this series, updating it so it can also be used in Thunderbird and Sunbird (previous versions worked only in Firefox).
3793 Using Firebug and jQuery (Screencast) Add-ons, Extensions, Firebug, JQuery, JavaScript, Screencasts, Tutorials
Note: This screencast is originally from:
http://ejohn.org/blog/hacking-digg-w...ug-and-jquery/
3794 Using IO Timeout And Interrupt On NT NSPR
This technical memo is a cautionary note on using NetScape Portable Runtime's (NSPR) IO timeout and interrupt on Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0. Due to a limitation of the present implementation of NSPR IO on NT, programs must follow the following guideline:
3795 Using SSH to connect to CVS Developing Mozilla
No summary!
3796 Using Web Standards in your Web Pages NeedsUpdate, Web Development, Web Standards
No summary!
3797 Developing cross-browser and cross-platform pages Compatibility, Web Development, Web Standards
An important practice when doing cross-browser, cross-platform pages and DHTML development involves the ability to determine the capabilities of the browser which loads your web page. As a web author, you understandably want to avoid script errors and page layout problems and you may want to ensure your scripts reach as wide an audience as possible. There are 2 known approaches for such goals: the browser identification approach (also known as userAgent string detection and often referred as "browser sniffing") and the Object/Feature support detection approach. The browser identification approach is now known to be complicated, unreliable and difficult to maintain.
3798 References Web Development, Web Standards
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3799 Summary of Changes Web Development, Web Standards
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3800 Using the W3C DOM Web Development, Web Standards
The Document object has properties for accessing collections of elements, such as document.images and document.forms. Some browsers have non-standard properties, such as Internet Explorer's document.all[], that are not part of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) standards and may cause JavaScript errors in standards-compliant browsers.
3802 Using workers in extensions Extensions, Workers
This article shows you how to use worker threads in extensions to perform tasks in the background without blocking the user interface.
3803 Web Standards NeedsUpdate, Web Standards
The Web Standards Project
3804 Choosing Standards Compliance Over Proprietary Practices Web Development, Web Standards
As organizations expand product development across multiple devices and product families, integration and compatibility must be a key requirement. Adhering to a set of future-focused International standards will make cross-functional integration possible. Adopting standards will not only help an organizations end users enjoy a cross application experience; organizations will help themselves by giving development and quality assurance engineers the tools to become better equipped and flexible. Lastly, by following a series of standards, organizations can more easily measure progress, performance, and results across the organization.
3805 Community NeedsUpdate, Web Standards
No summary!
3806 Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets CSS, DOM, Guide, Junk, Stylesheets
External stylesheets are often associated with HTML documents using the <link rel="stylesheeet"> element, but it is important to use the element's title attribute properly.
3807 Describing microformats in JavaScript Firefox 3, Microformats
Microformats are described in JavaScript by using a standardized structure format that has several standard members that describe the object.
3808 Displaying a graphic with audio samples
The following example shows how to take samples from an audio stream and display them behind an image (in this case, the Mozilla logo), giving the impression that the image is built from the samples.
3809 Fixing Incorrectly Sized List Item Markers CSS, Junk
No summary!
3810 Fixing Table Inheritance in Quirks Mode CSS, Junk
No summary!
3811 Issues Arising From Arbitrary-Element hover Archive, CSS
No summary!
3812 Mozilla's DOCTYPE sniffing Junk, Web Development
This document describes how Mozilla uses the DOCTYPE declaration to determine strict mode vs. quirks mode. The code that makes this determination is currently in DetermineParseMode() in nsParser.cpp. See bug 1312 and bug 55264 for some of the history of the mode determination. See bug 153032 for the creation of the Almost-Standards mode around Mozilla 1.0. The goals that led to choosing this behavior were the following:
3813 Parsing microformats in JavaScript Firefox 3, Microformats
Firefox 3 introduces a new API for managing and parsing microformats. This article examines the generic microformat parsing API, which handles the heavy lifting of pulling data out of a microformat. This API is primarily intended to be used when implementing new microformats.
3814 Popup Window Controls Web Development, create this idea
Mozilla and Firefox allow users to control most unsolicited attempts to open new windows such as popup and popunder windows. Learn how to detect Popup Controls, how to ask your readers to enable popups for your site and how to get the benefits of popup windows without using popup windows.
3815 RDF in Fifty Words or Less RDF
No summary!
3816 RDF in Mozilla FAQ RDF
RDF serves two primary purposes in Mozilla. First, it is a simple, cross-platform database for small data stores. Second, and more importantly, the RDF model is used along with XUL templates as an abstract "API" for displaying information. RDF in Fifty Words or Less is a quick, high-level description of what RDF does in Mozilla. 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.
3817 Styling Abbreviations and Acronyms Accessibility, CSS, Guide, Junk

Summary: The HTML elements abbr and acronym are useful accessibility aids, but their styling can come as a surprise to authors. See how you can take control of their presentation without sacrificing the benefits these elements provide. Many authors are beginning to use the HTML elements abbr (abbreviation) and acronym in their Web pages. This is to be encouraged, and according to Guideline 4 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, both elements should be given a title attribute to improve "readability of the Web for all people, including those with learning disabilities, cognitive disabilities, or people who are deaf."
3818 The Business Benefits of Web Standards NeedsUpdate, Web Development, Web Standards
Doing more with less seems to be the mission impossible for web designers: Addressing more customers, a broader audience, more diversity in terms of browsers, more accessibility, users asking for more speed, while spending less to maintain or redesign a web site. Caught between a rock and a hard place, web designers face a formidable challenge. Yet they are finding an unsuspected ally in the battle: Web Standards.
3819 Using the Right Markup to Invoke Plugins Add-ons, HTML, Plugins
This article is about how to invoke a plugin with the correct use of HTML. It discusses the object element and the embed element, with details about using the most apt HTML to invoke Java in a web page as well.
3830 Windows Media in Netscape Obsolete, Web Development
Netscape 7.1 has the ability to load the Microsoftยฎ Windows Media Player™ as an ActiveX control, and thus developers can now build multimedia experiences that script the Windows Media Player in Netscape 7.1, just as they do in Internet Explorer. Netscape 7.1 will work with both the Windows Media Player 6.4 ActiveX control as well as versions 7 through 9. This article explains how to embed the Windows Media Player ActiveX control in web pages to support Netscape 7.1, how to control the Windows Media Player ActiveX control using JavaScript and provides working examples. This article deals uniquely with Netscape 7.1 running on the Windows operating system.
3831 XQuery
XQuery is a W3C standard language which is meant to be for XML what SQL is for relational data--i.e., the ability to search, sort, extract, and remold data. It offers powerful and yet intuitive searching based on XPath, has SQL-like syntax for the query portion, and has scripting features such as function and variable definitions, XML-inclusion, etc.
3832 XUL Booster Extensions, Extensions:Tools, Tools, XUL, XUL:Tools
XUL Booster is a third party Eclipse / WebTools build that offers some support for XUL Editing and awesome support for extension packaging.
3833 XUL Parser in Python Outdated articles, Outdated_articles, Python, XUL
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