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XULRunner Guide

Revision as of 14:05, 6 December 2006 by Mylau (talk | contribs) (XULRunner Guide Todo List)

Project Name

XUL Runner Guide

Project Description

The XULRunner project provides an "application runner" for building apps -- like Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird -- atop the Mozilla toolkit framework. It needs a guide outlined, high-priority parts written, and examples created to help people get started.

Related tech and skills: XUL, documentation, cross-platform testing.

Project Leader(s)

Project Contributor(s)

  • Vanessa
  • Paul St-Denis
  • Erin Davey
  • Elichak
  • Helped some comments on the Hello World tutorial

Project Details

XULRunner Guide Outline

XULRunner Guide Todo List

  • Have the conversion between XULRunner application to extensions and vice versa. (This part isn't very important to have in the guide but its good to have)
  • Add ways of debugging XULRunner application on the guide
  • Proof read guide
  • Put the whole guide into PDF format. (Once everything is done)
  • Have a title page picture of XULRunner. (good to have)

Project News

December 5, 2006 by mylau

  • Converting to PDF

Talked to elichak about the conversion between Wiki and PDF. She mentioned the fact that in order to convert Wikis into PDF, I would need to embed some code like PHP into the Wiki for the converting program to work. This theory of her's did make senes since due to the research I've done last week had the same results. If I were to automate the PDF conversion, I would have to talk to ACS since they own the code base for zenit. I don't think I'll be using that method. It's too much of a hassle. Since the document seems pretty short, I'm going to put it into the PDF manually.

  • I moved the November project news to an achieve.
  • Debugging XULRunner

I've went back to listen to the workshop Ben Smedberg gave about XULRunner. I jotted some notes about how he debugged XULRunner and plan to post that section up on the guide later in the week.

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