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Development resources From MozillaZine Knowledge Base Websites that are useful for Mozilla development. This knowledge base also has a few articles on extension development.

Ce site est consacré à toutes les technologies disponibles sur la plate-forme Mozilla®, utilisée par le navigateur Mozilla Firefox™, le client mail Mozilla Thunderbird™ et les autres produits de la fondation Mozilla®. La plate-forme Mozilla® permet de développer des applications desktop ou web, fonctionnant nativement sur la plupart des systèmes d'exploitations. C'est aussi la première plate-forme vous permettant de réaliser des clients riches ou d'utiliser Firefox en tant que client riche. En effet, de l'interface graphique utilisateur reposant sur un format XML, XUL™, aux composants XPCOM réutilisables et multi plate-forme, Mozilla offre tout un ensemble de technologies, pour la plupart standardisées et relativement aisé à mettre en oeuvre : XBL, EcmaScript (Javascript 1.8), CSS, XHTML/HTML 5, SVG, XForms, MATHML, RDF, DOM, XML-RPC ... Vous pouvez commencer par une présentation de XUL.

XUL (XML User Interface Language) is Mozilla's XML-based language that lets you build feature-rich cross platform applications that can run connected or disconnected from the Internet. These applications are easily customized with alternative text, graphics and layout so they can be readily branded or localized for various markets. Web developers already familiar with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) will learn XUL quickly and can start building applications right away. Open XUL Periodic Table in Firefox or another Gecko-based browser to see some XUL demos.

The Order of Things to Learn Look to the "Resources" section for places to learn about these. 1. HTML. Hypertext Markup Language. Not the same "language" as JavaScript. This is a markup language, meaning it's a bunch of text that is meant to represent some type of structure, in this case, a web page. 2. XML. Extensible Markup Language. In case you didn't realize, HTML itself is a type of "XML". Learning XML is important because many popular websites (YouTube, Facebook, Last.fm) use XML to interact with data. Since you already know HTML by this point, understanding XML should be cake. 3. CSS. Cascading Style Sheets. This is the way HTML (should be) stylized. You'll want to learn this. 4. JavaScript. Learn all the basics: data types, functions, JavaScript's native functions like prompt, alert, etc. 5. The Greasemonkey Extras. Like I said, Greasmonkey == JavaScript, with a lot of extras. A specific page listing the API's can be found here.

...generates XPaths while browsing or inspecting HTML/XML/*ML documents; evaluates your XPaths and inspects the results; extracts the content.