Difference between revisions of "MozCC Development"

MozCC is written using Javascript and XUL. The source repository is hosted in the cctools project at SourceForge.net in the mozcc2 module.

Planned Features

MozCC NG

• Split extraction and presentation into two, decoupled extensions.
• Define a communication mechanism between the two (events?) that others can emulate
• Distribute as an XPI Bundle
• Stability and performance for the "core" extension
• Culling policy for triple cache

• Learn from Operator:
  • Namespace pollution (reducing)
  • Extractor loading

MozCC 2.4.x

(may get rolled into 2.6)

• Support for Flock (post 0.7.x)

MozCC 2.6

• Restructure code to wrap all the functionality in a single object (to prevent namespace collisions)
• Support for licensing of embedded objects (images, etc).
• Support for i18n

Notes/Links

• http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/02/04/microformats-part-4-the-user-interface-of-microformat-detection/ Ideas on exposing embedded metadata in the UI

Future Directions

• Personal Metadata Store: allow users to browse metadata collected by MozCC ("show me the pages i've browsed tagged with 'foo'")

Other Firefox Extension Points

• Scrapbook -- license information should travel with scraped content

Other "S"-Web Tools

• Piggy Bank
• Timeline

Resources

• XULplanet
• mozdev.org
• the Mozilla source tree
• Netscape DevEdge
• JavaScript Pocket Reference
• Creating Applications with Mozilla