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This is your guide to building Internet applications and user interfaces with the Mozilla component framework, which is best known for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. Programming Firefox demonstrates how to use the XML User Interface Language (XUL) with open source tools in the framework’s Cross-Platform Component (XPCOM) library to develop a variety of projects, such as commercial web applications and Firefox extensions.
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Programming Firefox: Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL
Kenneth C. Feldt’s PROGRAMMING FIREFOX is recommended for advanced computer libraries catering to programmers: it blends a tutorial and a programmer’s reference under one cover, covering XUL’s interface and capabilities and including a review of Firefox technology, applications management, and more. Any designer working on standards-based Internet projects needs PROGRAMMING FIREFOX: it covers all the basics and encourages a more in-depth understanding of Firefox’s potential.
Rating: 5 / 5
before reading the book i’ve read the negative reviews below , but what i found is totally different , the book is very good for anyone want to programme extensions for firefox using mozilla component framework , as it covers XUL | extensible user interface language that firefox itself built on , and illustration by figures and examples , then covers what you need to know in the related technologies such as RDF , Xlink , Xforms , SVG because each of this technologies require a book to cover it , and end with reference covers all attributes , properities and methods of XUL widgets , my rating is 4/5 and i encourage all browser developers buy this book .
Rating: 4 / 5
I wanted to learn how to build a small Firefox
extension. It looks like this book will help.
It seems to be technically accurate and thorough.
On a sentance by sentance basis it’s also reasonably
well-written. But as a whole it doesn’t come together
well enough to get a high mark. I didn’t return it.
That’s the best I can say.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is another book in which the author (or the publisher) couldn’t be bothered to format its code samples. This would be so easy to do and I am sick of seeing this twisted, unreadable mess in my programming books.
Nested code is not indented, braces commonly do not line up, and barely any care was taken to indicate scope at all. It is also littered with useless comments that do not indicate the purpose of the code it should be describing, but rather to mark that the end of a block of code has been reached. Having a try-block followed by the comment ” // try” is nowhere near as useful to me as if the code would have been readable in the first place.
The book is fairly respectable as a reference, however, and does make a nice complement to Essential XUL Programming, which is a little old but still quite serviceable.
Overall I would not purchase this book again. Combining the above mentioned text with the xulplanet web site is quite enough. My summary of this book is that it has the potential to be useful, but is generally very irritating to read.
Rating: 2 / 5
Well well… I bought this book a month ago to develop a Firefox extension for work. I must say it’s a terrible book. There’s no pedagogy, and the content is VERY incomplete.
It deals mostly with XUL widget programming. it will teach you how to set the developer environment, how to interfere with the user, how to deploy THAT’S IT. poor examples, bad coding practices… I spent 60 box for this useless book…
Rating: 1 / 5