Firefox Image Editor: 14 Lines of Code

1. Matt Ward 11.11.09 / 12am

   wow.

   that’s all I have to say. I will absolutely be playing with Jetpack in the next couple weeks.
2. Aza Raskin 11.11.09 / 12am

   Thanks, Matt! Can’t wait to see what you make. Post it back here when you are done.
3. Daniel Glazman 11.11.09 / 1am

   Wellllll….. No. 14 lines of code that are enough to invoke the minified 300+ lines of JS of pixlr_minified.js. The Jetpack code itself does nothing to edit the image, and that must be said.
   But 14 lines are enough to attach a context menu invoking that editor to all images in all web pages, yes.

   So based on 14 lines of code counted like that, I can do whatever you want.
4. Drew 11.11.09 / 2am

   @Daniel: Good point. How about 14k of assembly then?
5. Aza Raskin 11.11.09 / 3am

   @Daniel: Good point. Then I’d amend the challenge as follows, using pre-existing tools, libraries, APIs, and services, make something totally awesome in 14 lines for Jetpack.
6. Kroc Camen 11.11.09 / 6am

   Insert here: http://twitpic.com/p3l99
7. Kroc Camen 11.11.09 / 6am

   Oh for the love of engineering, *how* many years must there be before we create comment forms that are smart enough to just encode HTML entities instead of stripping them. I meant “Insert <video> here”.
8. Jonas 11.11.09 / 7pm

   Flash is doing all the heavy lifting… much more than 14 line there.
9. Adam 11.12.09 / 6am

   Wait.. how did u get syntax highlighting in there?
   1. It would be in future builds
   2. It is an add-on that integrates (what looks to me like) bespin :)
   3. Jetpack already had it from the start and it doesn’t work for me :(

   By the way this is win 7 with jetpack 1.6.1 and firefox 3.5.5
10. lockoom 11.12.09 / 7am

    Well then if I embed Gecko engine in my app could I claim that I wrote entire rendering engine in few lines?

    Ok, Jetpack is great but this kind of publicity just sucks.
11. sep332 11.12.09 / 10am

    This isn’t about implementing new features, this is about adding existing features to the browser. With jetpack, you can stop worrying about where the functionality lives, because it works just like a part of your browser. Stop complaining about “Flash is doing all the heavy lifting” that’s not the point.
12. Aza Raskin 11.13.09 / 3pm

    @Adam: Currently syntax highlighting only works on OS X. In the next release of Jetpack, we should have Bespin working for all platforms.

    @lockoom: sep332 has it right. The web is about standing on the shoulders of giants. If you could embed Gecko in one line of code and build something interesting in a couple more, then yes you could claim a minimal-code browser. It’s about the end result.
13. Marcin Ignac 11.14.09 / 6pm

    Hi Aza, what kind of JavaScript construction is:

    function(target) ( { … } )

    What are this parenthesis doing after anonymous function declaration, around { } object syntax?

    And btw what is the hidden logic behind on(”img”)?
14. mooring packs 11.19.09 / 11pm

    WOW. That’s really nice editor. I had tried this. Now, my browser runs extremely fast.
15. دردشه صوتيه 12.4.09 / 8am

    woooow
16. Philippe 12.12.09 / 2pm

    Looks still complicated ;)
    You should add a jetpack method to inject a JS in the page!
17. Hari K T 12.19.09 / 7am

    Wow that’s awesome.
18. buy 8gb m2 1.22.10 / 12am

    There is no doubt about it and i am using few of the list, thanks for sharing i will other plugin also.I’m surprised you didn’t add the Wordtracker SEO Blogger add-on.

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