MozCC Development

MozCC is written using Javascript and XUL. The source repository is hosted in the mozcc2 module at code.creativecommons.org.

Planned Features

MozCC NG

• Split extraction and presentation into two, decoupled extensions.
• Define a communication mechanism between the two (events?) that others can emulate
• Distribute as an XPI Bundle
• Stability and performance for the "core" extension
• Culling policy for triple cache

• Learn from Operator:
  • Namespace pollution (reducing)
  • Extractor loading

MozCC 2.4.x

(may get rolled into 2.6)

• Support for Flock (post 0.7.x)

MozCC 2.6

• Restructure code to wrap all the functionality in a single object (to prevent namespace collisions)
• Support for licensing of embedded objects (images, etc).
• Support for i18n

Notes/Links

• http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/02/04/microformats-part-4-the-user-interface-of-microformat-detection/ Ideas on exposing embedded metadata in the UI

Future Directions

• Personal Metadata Store: allow users to browse metadata collected by MozCC ("show me the pages i've browsed tagged with 'foo'")

Other Firefox Extension Points

• Scrapbook -- license information should travel with scraped content

Other "S"-Web Tools

• Piggy Bank
• Timeline

Resources

• XULplanet
• mozdev.org
• the Mozilla source tree
• Netscape DevEdge
• JavaScript Pocket Reference
• Creating Applications with Mozilla