There is still lack of documentation for Domplate (even if there are already some articles) and so, I have decided to put together set of how to examples. I believe that this kind of simple and focused examples is good start for everybody who wants to understand how Domplate works and use it for building HTML UI.
Each example consists usually from following parts:
- Domplate Script: the script used to describe Domplate template
- Input Data (object): input data for a dynamic template
- CSS: set of CSS rules used by result DOM
Every example also contains a brief description and a Demo button that can be used to run the example with Domplate Runner and see/explore generated markup. Since the runner is based on Domplate, specifically on
JQuery Domplate Plugin (made by Christoph Dorn) and Domplate doesn't support other browsers yet, it runs only in Firefox. So, if you are not using Firefox, perhaps it's good time to install it now. 😉
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I have been waiting for a long time to write about this. Since Bug 430155 (new nsHttpChannel interface to allow examination of HTTP data before it is passed to the channel's creator) is now fixed, it's possible to intercept HTTP traffic from within a Firefox extension!
This fix should be part of Firefox 3.0.4.
This possibility is crucial for Firebug (and also Adblock Plus and Firekeeper can benefit from it) as one of its features is showing a response of any HTTP request made by a page. Until now, Firebug has been using Firefox cache and XHR monitoring to retrieve the response and display it to the user. While this worked quite fine for XHR (it's not that hard to monitor XHR responses) there was a big issue with monitoring all the other network requests. The most visible problem was probably submit of an HTTP form using POST method (known as double-load problem).
In some cases, the HTTP response isn't cached (and don't forget that Firefox cache can be disabled entirely) and Firebug had to fire a second request in order to get the response again and show it to the user. Of course, this was a big problem for every server that executed any (e.g. database) related actions (these have been executed twice). Uff...
Finally, I could implement new and reliable cache within Firebug 1.3 based on nsITraceableChannel. So, Firebug can use it anytime the response-source is needed without an additional request, e.g. if the user wants to see a network response in Firebug's Net panel...
Check it out, I am recommending latest Firebug 1.3 from SVN and till the Firefox 3.0.3 isn't available you can download latest trunk build from here. Any comments truly appreciated!
For those who are more interested, I have written an example that demonstrates how the nsITraceableChannel can be used.
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I have got quite a lot of valuable feedback since Firecookie 0.6 release and so, I have decided to create a fresh new version. Thanks to all who took their time and helped to improve this Firebug extension!
Download Firecookie 0.7 beta for testing here (0.7beta9). If you would find any problems please report it here. The extension should work with all versions of Firebug and Firefox.
If you are interested, read more about all new features (with bunch of screen-shots attached) or read release notes and see what bugs have been actually fixed.
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