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== Project statement ==
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Plans/Chrome_code Moved to MDN].
 
When I started having to do stuff with chrome-privileged JS, I found it really confusing. There is documentation, but on the whole it's:
 
* scattered around MDN
* *grievously* out of date
* tends to assume a lot of knowledge that is very Gecko-specific, that someone who understands standard web development will not have. Unlike standard web stuff, there's no other place to find this out (except the source).
 
More recently, from a few different directions, I've been doing a bit to document this area of things, and I'm starting to think that maybe we should look at building a coherent set of docs on "writing privileged JS in Gecko".
 
The audience would be:
* add-on developers
* devtools developers
* Gecko developers
 
== Things to do ==
 
I think the content would be partly pulled in from some existing places, appropriately updated, and partly new. I'm not really proposing to update, for example, *all* the XPCOM docs now. More to update the most important stuff and have some high-level content that ties it together. I think it would cover something like this:
 
=== what's chrome code? ===
* different javascript contexts in Gecko (chrome, content, sandboxes)
 
===what's in the chrome environment?===
* Components (classes, XPCOM, JSMs, Components.utils)
* gBrowser &c
 
===working with content===
* getting access to content
* using message managers in multiprocess Firefox (e10s)
 
===security===
* compartments
* xray wrappers
* security principals
 
== People ==
* from MDN: Will Bamberg
* from engineering: I've been working with Bobby Holley and Gabor Krizsanits on the security/Xray stuff, and Bill McCloskey on e10s. It would be good to get other Firefox platform people involved in deciding what we should do here.

Latest revision as of 14:21, 4 August 2014

Moved to MDN.

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