Project: Dragging tabs from one browser to another browser in Seamonkey
SeaMonkey is a web browser powered by Mozilla
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
The bug I have chosen to do is to add the functionality of dragging tabs from one SeaMonkey window to another. This functionality already exists in FireFox and has not been ported over to SeaMonkey. This project is a ease of use for the SeaMonkey users but I still think it is an important function to have. The reason why I have chosen to do this as my OSD600 project is because I am interested in the frontend work of web browsers. This project will give me insight into the inner workings of FireFox and SeaMonkey.
I found this project on this bug page
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449728
Following my work
I will keep progress of my on my blog
http://jjleeos.blogspot.com/
Timeline
I am doing open source project for OSD600, a course at my school. Expect the following releases
0.1 Release Feb 25
-Transplant code from FireFox to SeaMonkey for moving tabs from browser to browser
0.2 Release Mar 15
-Begin to code classes to allow transfer or tabs between browsers
0.3 Release Apr 5
-Be able to move tabs from browser to browser
What I need to learn
In order for me to learn how to begin with this project I need to brush up on my javascript. Learn how FireFox handles its tabs and how it can move the tabs from browser to browser. Also learn how to SeaMonkey handles tabs.
Collaboration and Contribution
To help me with this project David Humphrey and Boris Zbarsky. Both of these people can help me with getting to know how FireFox and SeaMonkey works. Humphrey is the teacher who is teaches the Open Source course at my school and Zbarsky is the one who filed the bug which lead me to this project.
Humphrey’s blog http://vocamus.net/dave/
Zbarsky’s blog http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/
Barriers in my way
This project seems very overwhelming to me and this is the first time I have done programming at this big of scale. Having only done most of my work in school I don’t really write programs greater then 1000 lines. I will need to focus myself and learn how both of these browsers handle tabs.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Mailing lists
Hello
After looking throught a few mailings lits that mozilla offers the following caught my eye.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.layout/topics
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.bugzilla/topics
Layouts because one of the key things that drew me to firefox aside from being better then internet exloperer was the option to customize the look and layout. I'm the kind of person who like downloading skins, changing the appearance of windows to the point where people ask me what OS im using.
The other mailing list is bugzilla simplely for the reason it is a huge part of this community and if i want to take part i figure i should take a look into this.
After looking throught a few mailings lits that mozilla offers the following caught my eye.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.layout/topics
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.bugzilla/topics
Layouts because one of the key things that drew me to firefox aside from being better then internet exloperer was the option to customize the look and layout. I'm the kind of person who like downloading skins, changing the appearance of windows to the point where people ask me what OS im using.
The other mailing list is bugzilla simplely for the reason it is a huge part of this community and if i want to take part i figure i should take a look into this.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Open Source Readings
Hello
My name is Jeffrey Lee and i am taking OSD600 this winter 2010 semester
After doing the readings my view on open source and the business method of developing software have been changed. They are very conflicting styles of developing software, the Cathedral vs Bazaar method as Eric Raymond put it. As i see it the bazaar method attracts more people who have a much greater interest in the project and thus is willing to work more passionately towards the benefit of the project and more people have a voice and can be heard. As oppose to the cathedral where there is one person leading the design which can lead to a much more narrow outlook on the project. Less eyes on the project thus less room for additions outside of the original scope of the project.
Another benefit of the bazaar method is the beta testers and the many eyes on the project itself. As Eric Raymond says your greatest resource is the beta testers because they have a greater interest in the project as oppose to the cathedral method where the testers are being paid to test and may not as interested in looking for exploits. Another benefit of the open source is everyone can look at the source code and point out the bugs and glitches so that the developers of the project can fix them before the release of version 1.0. Windows for example will release a 1.0 version of a operating system and let the user base report the errors thus the window that comes up and lets you report errors when a program crashes.
Another thing I've learned from the open source movement is that despite the fact that open source is usually a general interest hobby it can still profit like the cathedral method of developing. I was very surprised how much money is poured into open source projects like Firefox from large corporations. It perked my interest when i discovered how much other companies drive open source just so other competing companies like Microsoft from taking a monopoly on the internet.
I do believe that there is space for both methods of developing software, in a way it drives a healthy competition between the two sides.
So those are my thoughts on open source, I hoped you enjoyed
My name is Jeffrey Lee and i am taking OSD600 this winter 2010 semester
After doing the readings my view on open source and the business method of developing software have been changed. They are very conflicting styles of developing software, the Cathedral vs Bazaar method as Eric Raymond put it. As i see it the bazaar method attracts more people who have a much greater interest in the project and thus is willing to work more passionately towards the benefit of the project and more people have a voice and can be heard. As oppose to the cathedral where there is one person leading the design which can lead to a much more narrow outlook on the project. Less eyes on the project thus less room for additions outside of the original scope of the project.
Another benefit of the bazaar method is the beta testers and the many eyes on the project itself. As Eric Raymond says your greatest resource is the beta testers because they have a greater interest in the project as oppose to the cathedral method where the testers are being paid to test and may not as interested in looking for exploits. Another benefit of the open source is everyone can look at the source code and point out the bugs and glitches so that the developers of the project can fix them before the release of version 1.0. Windows for example will release a 1.0 version of a operating system and let the user base report the errors thus the window that comes up and lets you report errors when a program crashes.
Another thing I've learned from the open source movement is that despite the fact that open source is usually a general interest hobby it can still profit like the cathedral method of developing. I was very surprised how much money is poured into open source projects like Firefox from large corporations. It perked my interest when i discovered how much other companies drive open source just so other competing companies like Microsoft from taking a monopoly on the internet.
I do believe that there is space for both methods of developing software, in a way it drives a healthy competition between the two sides.
So those are my thoughts on open source, I hoped you enjoyed
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