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The Contacts add-on is Mozilla Labs experiment with adding contacts to the web browser.
The Contacts add-on is Mozilla Labs experiment with adding contacts to the web browser.


The add-on provides an in-browser application to view contact data and discover social web services, and a set of APIs to add-on developers and web content to interact with contact data.


= Current Work/TODOs =
== Developer Links ==


== Autocomplete ==
* [[Web Content API]] to access contacts and social services from web pages.
* [[Internal API]] to access contacts from add-ons, and to create new importers, discovery agents, or services


We're making a list of e-mail input field names: [[Labs/Contacts/Autocompletion Names]]
== Project Links ==


== Internals ==
* [[Labs/Contacts/CurrentWork|Current work and TODO list]]
 
* Windows Contacts support
* Linux support - Ubuntu first?
* Fix logging from resource.js
 
== User Interface ==
 
* Implement "merge" and "split" in the Contacts view.  Persist data into the person record to allow the merge to persist across data refresh (pending on internal JSON work)
* Support multi-selection in the Contacts view (?)
 
 
== Importers ==
 
* Windows Live
* AOL Mail
* Twitter: more than 100 contacts
* Identi.ca
* Other social networks? Orkut, hi5, Raptr, Hyves
 
Discoverers?  May not be worth it, since we'd prefer to get this advertised to us through an identity endpoint.
 
* FriendFeed discoverer (search on email, then get service list)
* Other media discoverers: Picasa, Youtube, Vimeo, Smugmug, Pandora, Digg, Reddit
* Review discoverers: Flixstr, Goodreads, LibraryThing
* One or more of the location providers

Revision as of 18:22, 16 July 2010

The Contacts add-on is Mozilla Labs experiment with adding contacts to the web browser.

The add-on provides an in-browser application to view contact data and discover social web services, and a set of APIs to add-on developers and web content to interact with contact data.

Developer Links

  • Web Content API to access contacts and social services from web pages.
  • Internal API to access contacts from add-ons, and to create new importers, discovery agents, or services

Project Links

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