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Firefox Extensions - best practices [closed]

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I've been writing a Firefox extension, but have recently read a few articles explaining that it's bad practice to avoid variable name clashes by simple appending the application name to the front of the variable.

Unfortunately I have been doing this. What is the best practice instead? I assume it's to somehow namespace the variables. I've found various articles about wrapping everythign in a master object, but sadly no examples of this.

Can anyone point me to a good tutorial, or even a simple extension, that uses best-practices?

Thanks!

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Graham Avatar asked Oct 12 '09 12:10

Graham

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2 Answers

Peter Michaux explains Javascript namespacing very nicely.

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kangax Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 03:09

kangax

You can have a look at this video from Google tech, which explains best practices for JavaScript coding which is a main part of Firefox extension development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKDImgRfrg

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Xinus Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 03:09

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