Mozilla Jetpack, an API For Standards-Based Add-Ons

revealingheart writes "Mozilla Labs have released a prototype extension called Jetpack: An API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using existing web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS and Javascript), with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play. Example add-ons are included on the Jetpack website. While currently only a prototype, this could lead to a simpler and easier to develop add-on system, which all browsers could potentially implement."

Comments

Re:What? More ways to hack a browser?

[Facegarden]

Just what we need - more ways to mess up a browser. I thought we were supposed to be working towards standards not adding more extensions!

The idea *is* to use standards! People already make add-ons, they might as well be interoperable too.
Does this not make sense to you?
-Taylor