Comments on: Extensions, Personas and Jetpack! Oh, My! http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/ Mozilla, money, microformats and more Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:32:05 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1148 Jon Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:50:42 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1148 Great post. I'm not an extension developer, but I see this attempt to reduce complexity by adding a (incomplete) layer (of more complexity) pretty much in any development. I'm a big fan of fix-the-context-we-already-have. Great post. I’m not an extension developer, but I see this attempt to reduce complexity by adding a (incomplete) layer (of more complexity) pretty much in any development. I’m a big fan of fix-the-context-we-already-have.

]]> By: Omega X http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1147 Omega X Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:59:25 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1147 @Adam Yes, skinning Firefox is not for the weak. However a wallpaper exchanger is not better than what we have now. Those who have learned about the Skinning process has created a monumental amount of original looks for Firefox over the years. The current Personas system is just not capable of duplicating that same freedom at this point in time and no way should it even be though of to replace the current method until its brought up to speed. @Adam

Yes, skinning Firefox is not for the weak. However a wallpaper exchanger is not better than what we have now.

Those who have learned about the Skinning process has created a monumental amount of original looks for Firefox over the years. The current Personas system is just not capable of duplicating that same freedom at this point in time and no way should it even be though of to replace the current method until its brought up to speed.

]]> By: adam http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1146 adam Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:53:13 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1146 I agree about personas... its a wallpaper.... though it is better then nothing. Skins have been around on Mozilla things since like suite milestone 16 or before... but they always broke and were poorly maintained. Also a skinning Creator/app never really came out, so skins were always a long drawn out coding mess. I agree about personas… its a wallpaper…. though it is better then nothing.

Skins have been around on Mozilla things since like suite milestone 16 or before… but they always broke and were poorly maintained.

Also a skinning Creator/app never really came out, so skins were always a long drawn out coding mess.

]]> By: Er det slut med tilføjelser? « MozillaDanmarks blog http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1145 Er det slut med tilføjelser? « MozillaDanmarks blog Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:12:33 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1145 [...] i en farlig kurs. Mange var hurtige til at slutte op om Daniels kommentar, heriblandt Mike Kaply, som beskriver hvordan Personas knap nok kan kaldes temaer, hvilket straks er mere alvorligt. Mens JetPack stadig [...] [...] i en farlig kurs. Mange var hurtige til at slutte op om Daniels kommentar, heriblandt Mike Kaply, som beskriver hvordan Personas knap nok kan kaldes temaer, hvilket straks er mere alvorligt. Mens JetPack stadig [...]

]]> By: admin http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1144 admin Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:09:01 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1144 I would point to the AMO developer hub - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developers as well as Getting Started - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/how-to/getting-started I'm not saying there isn't a learning curve - just that Jetpack has a learning curve as well. I would point to the AMO developer hub – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developers

as well as Getting Started – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/how-to/getting-started

I’m not saying there isn’t a learning curve – just that Jetpack has a learning curve as well.

]]> By: Al Billings http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1143 Al Billings Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:54:37 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1143 For all the people who say writing XUL-based extensions is easy to learn, please point me to the excellent docs or books on doing so. Personally, I've found the documentation on it to be really not great and I just shelved the project of learning to write extensions as not being worth my time right now. For all the people who say writing XUL-based extensions is easy to learn, please point me to the excellent docs or books on doing so. Personally, I’ve found the documentation on it to be really not great and I just shelved the project of learning to write extensions as not being worth my time right now.

]]> By: Asbjørn http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1142 Asbjørn Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:06:33 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1142 I couldn't' agree more. Mozilla has gone crazy and this will be the death of Firefox if not stopped. We need a revolt, and we need it now! I couldn’t’ agree more. Mozilla has gone crazy and this will be the death of Firefox if not stopped. We need a revolt, and we need it now!

]]> By: Scott Baker http://mike.kaply.com/2010/01/11/extensions-personas-and-jetpack-oh-my/#comment-1141 Scott Baker Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:41:03 +0000 http://kaply.com/weblog/?p=404#comment-1141 Here here! Well said! Here here! Well said!

]]>