Just thought I’d point out some new content appearing on the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC).
- Saving Canvas to a File: Given a canvas element and a destinstion file path, this code snippet saves the contents of the canvas to a PNG file. The code could easily be tweaked to become a general purpose “download to file” instead of only handling canvas elements.
- XUL Control Guide: This is a handy quick guide to the various XUL control elements. In addition to a picture of the control, there are also links to reference and tutorial information.
- Observing the Download Manager: This snippet shows how you can observe the various notifications of the download manager.
- Troubleshooting XPCOM Registration: When component registration fails its currently very difficult to figure out the cause. This article steps through a few troubleshooting tips you can use to find the problem. We hope to get better tracing and debugging of component registration failures in Firefox 3.
This is a great idea. Thanks for letting us know, Mark.
Mark, how about “Saving Web Page as Image Using Canvas”? This will be only a little more complicated but far more useful – AFAICT lots of people are looking for code that can do that. I posted it a while ago here: http://xpoint.ru/forums/programming/XUL/thread/39001.xhtml#350838 (I don’t think you can read Russian but the code should be self-explaining). Of course you will want to save the URL to disk instead of assigning it to location.href.
is there an RSS feed that can tell me when MDC content is updated?
Wladimir, that’s pretty cool! Thanks!