Tools and Documentation for writing Thunderbird Addons (current)
I have skimmed through all the official documentation given on developing addons for Thunderbird. All I found was either articles marked as "outdated", outright "broken" or led to dead links. For example:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Main_Windows [incomplete]
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Thunderbird/HowTos [badly broken]
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Thunderbird/Demo_Addon [says you can download it at the bottom, but is crossed out and link dead]
- Want to do some real stuff? See how to inspect a message (demo add-on included!) [Link included leads to 3rd party who is no longer hosting the content]
Also somewhere I told me to use WebExtensions to develop future addons because browser-wide support, but its unclear if TB supports that.
What I am asking is a single resource that includes the right documentation for the right tools that are required to write TB addons. Especially since I am want to do a from what I see is a minor adjustment. In a more structured fashion here is what I need:
* Proper Documentation for the currently endorsed way of developing addons * Proper Documentation of the API currently endorsed for TB addons to hook into. * The tools required including perhaps an existing IDE or a way of building one from existing components in order to write the required code, compile, debug, test and finally release.
Cheers!
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After reading What are WebExtensions? this article saying "We're also intending to extend the APIs to support the needs of add-on developers, so if you have ideas, we'd love to hear them." I guess right now is not a good time for addon developers.
Take care! (isn't web development a beautiful thing?!)
Did you find this forum? Its main focus is Firefox extensions, but much of it is relevant to your question, including this topic.
sfhowes said
Did you find [ this forum]? Its main focus is Firefox extensions, but much of it is relevant to your question, including [ this topic].
Cheers for the links. The first one I guess I can use as a starting point for asking what the currently endorsed tech is. But the 2nd link leads to a page that shows in a big red rectangle that this is considered legacy tech soon to be unsupported.
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The warning is only applicable to Firefox. That is, it is NOT a problem for Thunderbird