Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
JD wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: JeffM schrieb: ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions in their Chrome Browser. There's an Add-On SDK for Mozilla software that does the same. Still, add-ons built with that only or the Google Chrome API can do so

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-26 Thread Ray_Net
Bill Davidsen wrote: JD wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: JeffM schrieb: ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions in their Chrome Browser. There's an Add-On SDK for Mozilla software that does the same. Still, add-ons built with that only or the Google

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-09 Thread JD
Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: JeffM schrieb: ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions in their Chrome Browser. There's an Add-On SDK for Mozilla software that does the same. Still, add-ons built with that only or the Google Chrome API can do so much less than

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-08 Thread Bill Spikowski
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 07/07/2011 18:12, goldtech told the world: Please explain why it's necessary for addons to break when ever a new version of FF or SM comes out. Can not it be coded so that all the tools I use will continue to work? I don't get it - would someone explain?

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Ilias
On 11-07-07 5:12 PM, goldtech wrote: Please explain why it's necessary for addons to break when ever a new version of FF or SM comes out. Can not it be coded so that all the tools I use will continue to work? I don't get it - would someone explain? Someone asked a similar question in the

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Kaiser wrote: JeffM schrieb: ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions in their Chrome Browser. There's an Add-On SDK for Mozilla software that does the same. Still, add-ons built with that only or the Google Chrome API can do so much less than full-blown add-ons

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-07 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 07/07/2011 21:23, JeffM told the world: ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions in their Chrome Browser. http://google.com/search?tbs=dfn:1q=application-programming-interface Creators of extensions for that browser are always writing to that

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-07 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 07/07/2011 18:12, goldtech told the world: Please explain why it's necessary for addons to break when ever a new version of FF or SM comes out. Can not it be coded so that all the tools I use will continue to work? I don't get it - would someone explain? I'm not in the

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-07 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
goldtech wrote: Hi, Please explain why it's necessary for addons to break when ever a new version of FF or SM comes out. Can not it be coded so that all the tools I use will continue to work? I don't get it - would someone explain? For details, see elsewhere in this thread. However, my

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-07 Thread JeffM
MCBastos wrote: Add-ons (extensions) hook into and modify the user interface of the program -- sometimes inserting a new module in the structure, sometimes replacing the standard module with their own customized module, whatever. ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions in