Mozilla Extension Generator

Author einar | 01.08.2007 | Category code, extensions, javascript, mozilla, python

Since I started creating Mozilla extensions I spent a lot of time writing boilerplate code, and copying from one extension from the next. Then I found Ted Mielczarek’s Extension Generator which is a great page that takes some parameters and creates an extension ready for you to use. I used that for some time but in the end I still kept modifying each extension to fit my own style and include my library functions. So I decided to make my own Mozilla Extension Generator in Python Read More…

Javascript format strings

Author einar | 31.07.2007 | Category code, javascript

Python has been my favorite language for a while but since I started making Mozilla Extensions I’ve started to like Javascript a lot too. One thing I miss from Python though are the format strings. In Python you can always create a string like this:

s = '%s is a %s' % ('John', 'Moron')

Since Javascript is a very flexible language and allows you to alter its built in types I decided to try to create something similar for it. Here’s what I came up with:
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