Entries from July 2008

July 25, 2008

Writing Beautiful UI with XUL

Designing a UI that looks like the panel above is really easy on Firefox (even for an artistically-challenged person like me). All of you need to get started is either a simple online XUL editor or XUL Explorer (which is awesome for testing XUL UI). If you want to test the UI right way on [...]

July 16, 2008

Devo

Devo is officially dead. Use Ubiquity.
Updated: Devo should now work on Windows & Linux in addition to OS X. Also, added some new actions and allowed the changing of shortcut key.
Inspired by Enso and Quicksilver, I blogged about a keyboard command launcher for Firefox nearly a year ago. After writing a very lousy first extension [...]

July 16, 2008

Writing Devo Actions

Before reading this article, please read the introduction to get a better understanding of Devo.
Every action in Devo consists of the following (illustrated below as well):

Keywords are what the user types to perform your action. It can be anything but it must not have spaces in them. The preferred separator is a dot “.”
Parameter are [...]