Talk:FUEL/Ideas
MOZILLA may be a bit long, especially if it is used extensively in extensions. Why not an alias like MOZ or MZ.
Another useful feature for this library would be some helper for boilerplate code in components (and other places). Maybe something similar to the jssh ComponentUtils (generateNSGetModule / generateFactory): http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/jssh/nsJSShStarter.js (I know there's a bug open about it)
--SylvainPasche 00:16, 8 January 2007 (PST)
I'd love to see some functions to help simplify interaction with nsISupportsArrays of nsISupportsPrimitives. Doing this by hand in JS is extremely annoying.
--Dmose
Preference
If you want, you can take a look at an object i did for preferences manipulation : http://bbcomposer.elitwork.com/source/bbcomposer/chrome/bbcomposer/content/option_service.js Nicolas FROIDURE - 2007/04/27
Thunderbird
It would be nice if the relevant parts of the API worked in Thunderbird 3.0 as well. This would facilitate extensions that can utilize both products for integration as well as foster Thunderbird extension development on it's own. Most of the API seems like it would work very well on both with little/no changes. --Raccettura 05:44, 18 May 2007 (PDT)
Animation
I dunno if this falls in the FUEL category or not, but it would be nice to have an animation library built into Firefox. There are parts of the UI that are already implementing their own animation effects (the Prefs window, tab strip, and browsers for now I think). Seems silly for each one of them to write their own complete implementation. Before they get to deep into writing special code for every widget in the toolkit, seems best to look at some abstraction.
The animation class doesn't necessarily have to be a part of FUEL, but it seems like a nice place to put it. Extension writers would then have at least some documented and stable code to turn to when they wanted to fade an overlay, or resize a box.
Plus, having a consolidated animation class makes it easier to debug and to pref things off for users who don't want them. There are already some animation class examples out there to build on (some of which you could probably talk the creators into letting you use):