MarcMiller
02-08-2010, 11:38 AM
Hi
I have followed several hello world XUL tutorials teaching you how to put hello world in various places like the FireFox status bar or a pop-up. But none of these tutorials teachers me the richness of things I see possible with XUL extensions and the books, now available, are all very old and consequently difficult to apply now. There is one exception to this the Sidepoint book "Build Your Own Firefox Extension" (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/byofirefoxpdf1/) which is some help however it concludes with the conclusion that you should go beyond this booklet length book by reading the code of great extensions like the toolbar developer extension and this is beyond my ability. So I would really like a tutorial or two or even three that would be just a little more advanced than the very basic hello world XUL tutorials I have read so far. And it would be nice also if it could work in the latest version of Firefox or at least with not that much adaptation. What would be ideal would be a Firefox extension tutorial that let you say hello world or hello something else by choice in the option panel or any other small step beyond the very basic hello world Firefox extension tutorial. So what would you suggest? I know JavaScript but I'm not an advance programmer who knows all sorts of programming technologies but would like to learn to master XUL had my first advanced technology.
I have followed several hello world XUL tutorials teaching you how to put hello world in various places like the FireFox status bar or a pop-up. But none of these tutorials teachers me the richness of things I see possible with XUL extensions and the books, now available, are all very old and consequently difficult to apply now. There is one exception to this the Sidepoint book "Build Your Own Firefox Extension" (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/byofirefoxpdf1/) which is some help however it concludes with the conclusion that you should go beyond this booklet length book by reading the code of great extensions like the toolbar developer extension and this is beyond my ability. So I would really like a tutorial or two or even three that would be just a little more advanced than the very basic hello world XUL tutorials I have read so far. And it would be nice also if it could work in the latest version of Firefox or at least with not that much adaptation. What would be ideal would be a Firefox extension tutorial that let you say hello world or hello something else by choice in the option panel or any other small step beyond the very basic hello world Firefox extension tutorial. So what would you suggest? I know JavaScript but I'm not an advance programmer who knows all sorts of programming technologies but would like to learn to master XUL had my first advanced technology.