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1. tinderbox json examples back online

   Thanks to the intrepid Mozilla IT Team (in particular Trevor and Justin) for sending me the contents of people.mozilla.com/~rhelmer, I now have the Tinderbox JSON examples back online.

   Since it's on my own server now and I have to pay for the bandwidth, I am not auto-refreshing …

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2. tinderboxJsonApi 0.1

   Many people have told me that they were excited about the JSON Tinderbox feed, but were quickly discouraged from doing anything fun due to the scary data structure that it presents; it's a straight dump of what the server uses, and is obviously optimized towards making a waterfall display (plus …

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3. Tinderbox JSON - now with 100% more AJAX

   As promised, I have published a more AJAXy example of the classic Tinderbox waterfall, built using the new Tinderbox JSON output mode:

   http://people.mozilla.org/~rhelmer/mockups/tinderbox/ajax.html

   This version uses gzip encoding for the JSON data, only reloads the page when new data is available, and …

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4. Tinderbox waterfall in Javascript

   Just a quick follow-up on my earlier post about Tinderbox's new JSON output mode - I've hacked up a quick working example of the waterfall page in Javascript. You can view the source to see how you could extract any of this info from Tinderbox.

   Here's a screenshot in case it …

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5. Tinderbox JSON output

   Thanks to justdave for getting our Tinderbox server installation up to date!

   One of the new features I'd like to highlight is a quick&dirty JSON output format.

   This is different from all of the existing Tinderbox modes (e.g. quickparse) in that it's a dump of the internal data …

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