1. Mark Phillip markphillip.com The Right Tools For The Right Job Building Add-ons for Firefox and Fennec

3. I've never created a Firefox add-on because...

4. ” “ I've never created a Firefox add-on because I've been able to do most things I want to do using Greasemonkey / User Scripts.

5. ” “ I've never created a Firefox add-on because I've never needed to.

6. ” “ Never created a ff addon because the iPhone API is way too distracting.

7. Stats

8. 1.5M Downloads/Day

9. 192M In Use

10. 1.5M Downloads/Day 192M In Use 1/3 of users have 1+

11. 1.5M Downloads/Day 192M In Use 1/3 of users have 1+ 1.6B Downloads

12. Just how big is 1,656,860,490?

14. Firefox Culture?

15. AdBlock Plus FirebugFlagfoxDownload StatusbarSkipScreen

17. ” “ I've never created a Firefox add-on because I'm not a programmer.

18. XUL XML User Interface Language

19. install.rdf chrome.manifest main.xul

20. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 1.5 3.5.* install.rdf

21. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 1.5 3.5.* install.rdf

22. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 1.5 3.5.* install.rdf

23. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 1.5 3.5.* install.rdf

24. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} 1.5 3.5.* install.rdf

25. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {a463f10c-3994-11da-9945-000d60ca027b} 0.4 2.5 install.rdf

26. <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> mozilla@refreshaustin.org 1.0 2 Goodbye Cruel World Hello World is just too happy {a23983c0-fd0e-11dc-95ff-0800200c9a66} 0.1 1.0.* install.rdf

27. content refresh chrome/content/ application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://refresh/content/main.xul application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} chrome.manifest

28. content refresh chrome/content/ application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://refresh/content/main.xul application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} chrome.manifest

29. content refresh chrome/content/ application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://refresh/content/main.xul application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} chrome.manifest

31. There is no Dana, Only Zuul

35. I'm so emo. main.xul

36. I'm so emo. main.xul

37. I'm so emo. My fingernails are black. main.xul

38. I'm so emo. My fingernails are black. main.xul

39. <script type="text/javascript" src="chrome://refresh/content/js/main.js"/> I'm so emo. My fingernails are black. main.xul

41. Packaging

42. <target name="widgets.mozilla.build" depends="init, clean" description="Builds Mozilla Toolbar.xpi install file"> ANT Build

43. set x=extension_name xcopy %x% build /i /e xcopy build\content build\chrome\content /i /e rmdir /s /q build\content cd build\chrome 7z a -tzip "%x%.jar" * -r -mx=0 cd..\.. rmdir /s /q build\chrome\content rmdir /s /q build\chrome\locale rmdir /s /q build\chrome\skin replace chrome.manifest build cd build 7z a -tzip "%x%.xpi" * -r -mx=9 cd.. move build\%x%.xpi %x%.xpi rmdir /s /q build Windows Build

45. Deployment

47. Distribution

49. Statistics

51. Fennec

53. A Moment for JavaScript

55. Add-ons Tutorial https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extensio n

56. XUL Reference https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL

57. XUL IDEs https://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:IDE

58. Firefox Add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

59. Fennec Add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/

60. This Talk http://markphillip.com/talks

61. Mark Phillip markphillip.com Thanks!