Developing JavaScript with Chickenfoot
Google engEDU
56 min – 25-Jul-06
Google TechTalks
July 25, 2006
Rob Miller
Michael Bolin
ABSTRACT
Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension that embeds a JavaScript programming environment in the browser’s sidebar. Unlike a JavaScript shell that simply supplies access to the DOM of a webpage, Chickenfoot provides users with a high-level API, making web scripting accessible to end-user programmers as well as hackers. In this talk we will present the design and implementation of Chickenfoot; in particular, our novel technique of using keyword patterns to identify page components. We will also demonstrate how to use Chickenfoot for debugging webapps and creating rapid prototypes. In fact, we’ll write a Firefox extension in under a minute, or your money back.
video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8967914974980683249