Evangelism/OneWeekAboutHackability/

• Goal: demonstrate the Mozilla Hackability
  • hack Firefox features, hack Firefox theme, hack web pages behavior, hack web pages style

• How: 10 articles, in one week (5Days), on hacks.mozilla.org

• What: articles about (sort by most wanted):
  • Extension: Mashup
    • merge 2 web services - Idea: Twitter + Identica in one page
  • Extension: Bring web data to the browser
    • A twitter toolbar, or a Flickr Sidebar, ... - Idea: FIXME
  • Extension: Make the browser your own
    • add UI feature to the browser. Idea: Create a report, a summary, of most visited web sites from places db (graphs, protocolHandler, sidebar, ...)
  • Extension: C++ component + build system
    • WiiMote C++ Component
  • Greasemonkey: create your own web features
    • Google.com: add under the search box the 3 last searches
  • Personas: Pimp your browser
    • A hacks.m.o background
  • Bookmarklets: make your bookmarks alive
    • SVG filters to show how color blind people see pages
  • Stylish: relook the web
    • twitter.com: when you click on the "more" button, 20 new tweets are appended. But it's difficult to know from which one are the new tweets. We can add a something to show the 20th tweets.
  • Extension:
    • pastebin uploader

Out of scope:

• • Ubiquity: talk to your browser
    • Pastebin uploader
  • Jetpack: extension 2.0
    • A Flickr uploader
  • userChrome.css
  • userContent.css
  • Write code for Mozilla
    • how to fix a bug (bugzilla, patch workflow). bug 434268 ?

• When:
  • The articles must be written before the 5Days (writing code, writing the article, reviews)
  • We (Paul & people from Europe) would like first to promote hacks.m.o (2 days of promotion about hacks.m.o & hackability - details here [1]).
  • September

• Random thoughts
  • short articles
  • 2 per days (5Days)
  • explain how to find documentation (MDC)
  • provide code - as templates