Blair’s Brain And Other Unfocused Things

Status update

Here’s another weekly status update. This week seemed to go by really quickly, and I didn’t get as much done as I was originally aiming for. Still, progress is progress.

In addition to a regular status update, I’m going to try to list some general thoughts and reflections from the week. See the end of the post, under “Reflections” (cleverly named, eh?).

Taskfox

Status

• Miscellaneous bug fixes
• Moving hard-coded strings into localization files

Loose ends

• Reviewer needed

Next steps

• Finish localization work
• Ensure all theme work is in relevant CSS files
• More unit tests

Next week’s targets

• Finish localization work
• Finish CSS theme work

Content Scripts

Status

• Content sniffer is now a binary component – much faster
• Internal protocol handler component is almost done

Loose ends

• New extension manager

Next steps

• Schedule meetings
• Finish protocol handler
• Implement persistence of installed scripts
• Spec requirements for what API to provide to scripts
• Potentially implement GreaseMonkey compatibility APIs

Next week’s targets

• Finish protocol handler
• Finish saving of installed scripts
• Have meeting setup with Labs

Jetpack uplift exploration

Status

• No progress

Next week’s targets

• Have meeting setup with Labs

Reflections

• Sometimes the proper solution isn’t the best solution
• Mossop’s XPCOM Ref is fantastically awesome

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