Mozilla Aims To Centralize All Open Web Tools In One Directory
Posted: July 07, 2009
By: techcrunch.com
Mozilla says there’s no central index for tools built to help web developers do their jobs (and/or hobby projects) better, so it set out to build one of its own. Located at tools.mozilla.com and dubbed the Open Web Tools Directory, the organization is taking a swing at building the most extensive and comprehensible index of tools that modern-day web developers can use.
The first thing you’ll notice when you visit the website is the unorthodox - and relatively confusing - design, as you can tell from the screenshot above. Explains Ben Galbraith on behalf of the Developer Tools team on the Mozilla Labs blog: We went with a “space” theme to emphasize the sheer size of the tool ecosystem (though at the moment we only have a small fraction of the tools available listed). And, frankly, we just couldn’t do another table-based master/detail database application; we wanted a directory that would be fun to use (and perhaps a bit of fun to create as well)…..….[read entire story]
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