Month: March, 2008

Happy Birthday Mozilla

31 March, 2008 (21:46) | mozilla, firefox | No comments

I guess I’ll pipe in here since I’m one of the few (only?) non-Netscape then, non-Mozilla now employees that was involved ten years ago and is still involved today.

Ten years ago, I was on a a team of IBM and Netscape folks that was working to make sure the code we wrote when we ported […]

Microsoft Screwed Up Activities API Docs - It’s addService NOT AddService

26 March, 2008 (13:23) | microsoft, activities, extensions, firefox | 8 comments

UPDATE: jst ROCKS! - I was able to do exactly what he said and I now have both cases of APIs working in my extension.

OK, this is really starting to bother me because Activities are starting to show up and they don’t work on Firefox because Microsoft screwed up the documentation.

The correct syntax for adding […]

New Activities, Updated Operator and More

20 March, 2008 (15:16) | microsoft, gtd, activities, extensions, firefox, operator | 3 comments

I’ve made version 0.6 of Firefox Activities available in the Add-ons Sandbox. If you like it, please review it so I can get it moved out of the Sandbox.

This version has a working preview for Firefox 3, as well as management of activities. It’s very close to the Microsoft version. The only thing it is […]

An Analysis of Microsoft Activities

19 March, 2008 (12:52) | microsoft, activities, firefox, microformats, operator | 5 comments

People seem to think that because I implemented Microsoft Activities for Firefox that I am agreeing with Microsoft’s solution. That conclusion is not correct. I simply implemented Activities because I thought it would be fun. But in the process of implementing it, I’ve learned a bit about it, and I’m going to provide some of […]

Operator 0.9 is available

17 March, 2008 (21:51) | erdf, extensions, rdfa, firefox, microformats, operator | 5 comments

NOTE: There is a problem with the zh-TW, hr-HR, cs-CZ, pt-BR and ru-RU translations. I’ll post a 0.9.1 when I get this worked out. Unfortunately this makes Operator 0.9 unusable in those languages because for some reason Babelzilla replaced the strings with blanks (not what I asked for).

Operator 0.9 is available. This was mainly done […]