Its been a awhile since we last posted – apologies, no one likes to be in the dark (unless you’re a one of these!) Right, so where were we… we posted our beautiful Rose diagram, this was to satisfy some class requirements and to illustrate generally how things would/could/should(?) work.
At the moment schools out, hence the slow down/quietness of everything, however things should get a little bit more lively when class kicks in (Sept 4th).
We had the opportunity to speak with Polvi about this project on our last day of class. We were able to get a better understanding of what Mozilla would like, the direction they would like to take, and how we could align our efforts with theirs in order to get something we could all sing songs about. Our initial approach was to go in guns blazing and start from the bottom and work our way up. After speaking with Polvi, it seems like it would be a better idea to work with whatever existing code is in place and ride on from there. It doesn’t mean that we’re going to stop all our previous efforts, just re-adjust them to work more collectively. We plan on prototyping this in Javascript along with working on whats in place. It’d be great to have something to show and work with sooner than later.
In my search of all things metric, I came across Songbird who also have a metric gathering functionality in place. I’ve been going through their code and checking out their kung-fu, and I’ve learned quite a bit from it. A majority (if not all of it) is done in JavaScript. It also inspired me to up my JavaScript game, so I grabbed a copy of Resig’s book (highly recommend it) and have been hacking my through that.
Thats skinny at the moment will post as thing *pop* up.
- Cozby
5 responses so far ↓
Ray Kiddy // August 31, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I am not sure what to do with a rar file here. The extensions I have done were put into xpi files for installing. Is there another way to do this that I am just seeing now? thanx
earth2simon // September 1, 2007 at 5:02 am
Yah, you can just unrar the directory into the Application Data Firefox extension directory. However the example is our first attempt which really isn’t that great. A better one will be posted soon once we get our heads around firefox. The example was more for our own academic purposes to get used to creating an extension in firefox.
T Danson // March 24, 2008 at 7:31 am
Interesting you bring this up. Me and my mates often times argue as to which is better, Firefox or Ie. cleary they’re idiots because Firefox is king of web browsers.
Editorial // June 19, 2008 at 3:18 am
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Editorial.
Hook // January 20, 2009 at 2:59 am
Has this project died?