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But some aspects of the SDK environment are not as weblike as they could be. Addon code runs in a JavaScript context that does not have access to web globals like XMLHttpRequest. And the SDK doesn't support the emerging standard for modules in JavaScript (nor does Firefox at this point). | But some aspects of the SDK environment are not as weblike as they could be. Addon code runs in a JavaScript context that does not have access to web globals like XMLHttpRequest. And the SDK doesn't support the emerging standard for modules in JavaScript (nor does Firefox at this point). | ||
To reduce the barrier to entry for web developers to build Firefox addons to the absolute minimum, the SDK should provide the most weblike programming environment possible. | To reduce the barrier to entry for web developers to build Firefox addons to the absolute minimum, the SDK should provide the most weblike programming environment possible. | ||
|Feature users and use cases=The target audience is addon developers. The use case is an add-on developer using the Add-on SDK (either directly or via the Add-on Builder) to build an addon. | |||
Additionally, we might support XHR, SetTimeout, and SetInterval | |||
In the future we might even consider making the experience of developing an add-on resemble creating for the web by moving main.js to main.html and making the relative paths work as they do when developing a website. | |||
|Feature users and use cases=The target audience is addon developers. The use case is an add-on developer using the Add-on SDK (either directly or via the Add-on Builder) to build an addon. | |||
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