CSS Checker JetPack Extension

Project Name

CSS Checker Add-on SDK Extension 0.3

Project Description

CSS as a standard evolves more slowly than browser vendor implementations, and as such, browser extensions are created. For example: -moz-box-shadow (Mozilla only), -webkit-box-shadow (Chrome/Safari), box-shadow (CSS standard). This extension will allow the user to tell when a a -webkit-* extension is being used for which there is also a -moz-* version. This will help with finding compatibility issues on websites that appear to work in one browser and not another.

Resources

• Vendor Specific Extensions:

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keywords

• JetPack SDK

1. https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
2. IRC in #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org

• Gecko Layout Engine

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko

• Mozilla CSS Extensions

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS_Reference/Mozilla_Extensions

• WebKit Layout Engine

1. http://webkit.org/

• Webkit CSS Extensions

1. http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebCore/css/CSSPropertyNames.in
2. http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebCore/css/CSSValueKeywords.in

Project Leader(s)

• Konstantin Novichikhin

Project Contributor(s)

• Dave Humphrey

Project Details

• main.js - executed upon launch; connects UI, pagemods and utility functions together.

1. Populates UI
2. Attaches Pagemod to loading web pages
3. Downloads external files

• funcs.js - a library with utility functions.

1. parseCSS(css) - parses CSS

• Arguments: CSS Style Sheet in String format
• Returns: Array of Objects with selector, property and value properties

1. cssToXPath(rule) - converts CSS Selector to XPath

• Arguments: CSS Selector in String format
• Returns: CSS Selector in XPath format

• ui.js - a library that deals with User Interface.

1. populateUI() - populates widget

• Arguments: None
• Returns: None

1. getStatus() - returns status of whether or not to modify web pages

• Arguments: None
• Returns: status, possible values: "Enabled", "Disabled".

Project News

• 0.1 Release
• GitHub Repo
• 0.2 Release
• 0.3 Release - UI, Rewriting of 0.1 and 0.2
• 0.3.1 Release - Rewriting of 0.1 and 0.2, Updates for Add-on SDK 1.0