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The Mozilla Labs developers have announced the availability of the first milestone for the Jetpack SDK, which will "replace the Jetpack 0.8 prototype over the coming months"
Mozilla Labs is continuing in its quest to make it as easy to extend the browser as it is to write a Web page. The latest update to Jetpack came out this week, and brought a few new APIs and a gallery of community contributed Jetpacks.
The Mozilla Labs developers have announced Jetpack SDK 0.4, the latest update to the development kit for the Jetpack framework that is pencilled in as the medium term replacement for Firefox's existing extension mechanisms
"Mozilla's new Jetpack project makes it easy to enhance the Firefox web browser by using conventional HTML and JavaScript. In this hands-on tutorial, we introduce you to Jetpack and use it to add a Digg counter to the browser's statusbar..."
It appears that great minds think alike (or in the case of open-source software and the close-ties between Google and Mozilla, share-alike). Within a week of each other both Mozilla and Google have announced new initiatives to allow for extensions to their browsers to be written using regular HTML / JavaScript and CSS, greatly lowering the bar for developers to join in.
Following a short delay, Mozilla has issued the second beta for version 4.0 of its Firefox web browser, adding support for the new 'tabs on top' layout to Mac OS X systems and several new features that affect web developers
Mozilla Labs has launched a new project, simply called Mozilla Labs Gaming, aimed at helping tame developers create games for the web using open web technologies, such as HTML5, WebGL and fast JavaScript engines
"Mozilla Labs, Mozilla's research and development section, has announced that, based on the popularity of the Git distributed version control system, it is now offering an experimental fork for all Mozilla Labs projects and experiments on project hosting service GitHub...." — See also: «...Moving t
