Development resources - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Development resources
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Websites that are useful for Mozilla development. This knowledge base also has a few articles onextension development.
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1 XUL
2 XBL
3 JavaScript
4 DOM
5 XPCOM / XPConnect
6 CSS
7 RDF
8 Books
9 Others
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XUL
XML User Interface Language, widely used in Mozilla to specify user interfaces in a platform-independent way
XulPlanet the premier resource for XUL and general Mozilla development on the internetIntroductory document
XUL elements reference
XUL page at developer.mozilla.org
XUL Programmer's Reference XUL programmer's reference from mozilla.org (slightly dated)
mozilla.org XUL documentation contaning many links to resources, a lot of which are no longer maintained
Chapter Two: XUL Layout from Rapid Application Development with Mozilla
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XBL
Extensible Binding Language
Introduction to XBL from XulPlanet's XUL tutorial
XBL page at developer.mozilla.org
Chapter Fifteen: XBL Bindings from Rapid Application Development with Mozilla
XBL Specifcation from mozilla.org
mozilla.org XBL documentation much of whch is unmaintained
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JavaScript
An interpreted language, used for scripting UI in Mozilla
JavaScript page at developer.mozilla.org
Chapter Five: Scripting from "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" —a great introduction to JavaScript and its place in Mozilla.
ECMA-262 Edition 3 (PDF) the formal JavaScript specification
JavaScript Central at Netscape Devedge
JavaScript Language Resources at mozilla.org
Douglas Crockford's JavaScript links
JavaScript Optimization Techniques
JavaScript Closures
Articles from this knowledge base related to JavaScript
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DOM
Document Object Model, an interface that allows scripts todynamically access and update the content, structure and style of(HTML/XML) documents
DOM page at developer.mozilla.org
DOM Specifications from the w3c DOM Working Group
Mozilla AOM Reference - A guide to the HTML/XUL DOM as implemened in Mozilla
XulPlanet Object Reference generated from the source code
Gecko DOM Reference
What does each DOM Level bring? - Gives an overview of the different DOM Levels and the support Mozilla offers for each of them.
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XPCOM / XPConnect
Cross-platform Component Object Model and A bridge to XPCOM components for JavaScript
XPCOM page at developer.mozilla.org
XPCOM Reference - XulPlanet's guide to to the XPCOM interfaces implemented by Mozilla, generated from the source code.How to instantiate XPCOM components and services.
Using XPCOM in JavaScript without leaking - essential reading for all XPCOM / JS developers
mozilla.org XPCOM page containing a variety of links to useful XPCOM documents.
Mozilla-JavaScript wiki unofficial, XPCOM + JavaScript documentation & samples
Chapter Sixteen: XPCOM from Rapid Application Development with Mozilla
Creating XPCOM Components - A book for developers wishing to create their own XPCOM components in languages such as C++, JavaScript and Python.
A chapter with examples of C++ and JavaScript components from Creating Applications with Mozilla.
Creating a C++ XPCOM component step-by-step tutorial oniosart.com.
PyXPCOM - developing Python XPCOM components
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CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Specifications from the w3c
CSS page at developer.mozilla.org
Mozilla.org page on CSS
The list of Mozilla-specific CSS properties
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RDF
Resource Definition Framework
mozilla.org RDF documentation somewhat unmaintained but with many useful links
w3c RDF page with specifcations and links to articles for beginners
Introduction to RDF from XulPlanet's XUL tutorial
Introduction to RDF model from XulPlanet. General information for beginners.
ESW wiki,RDF andSemantic Web wiki
RDF page at developer.mozilla.org
Chapter Eleven: RDF from Rapid Application Development with Mozilla
How to create In-memory RDF from remote XML
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Books
A bound publication of 49 or more pages that is not a magazine or periodical.
Creating Applications With Mozilla O'Reilly's reference - released at about same time as Mozilla 1.0 and avaliable online as a collection of HTML files.
Rapid Application Development With Mozilla. Available asa set of compressed PDF files andonline as a collection of XHTML files. More up to date and more detailed than the O'Reilly offering.
mozdev.org has alist of Mozilla and Firefox-related books.
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Others
Various useful links
LXR - Search the Mozilla source code
Packaging Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions - A reference for the Firefox 0.9+ packaging format
Organized Links to Existing Content - categorized list of mozilla.org docs.