Add-on Builder & AMO Validator now updated to support SDK 1.14

[Jeff Griffiths]

Rocketeers!

As you may have noticed, Add-on SDK 1.14 was released on Tuesday. I’m
pleased to also announce that Add-on Builder has been updated to
support SDK 1.14. As well, the AMO Add-on Validator has also been
updated to support SDK 1.14.

The one caveat with using Add-on Builder with SDK 1.14 is that the
behaviour of console.log changed. If you rely on the Error Console
window to view messages from console.log, you have two options:

1. Change all calls to console.log to console.error, which will print
out scary looking red messages in the Error Console’s ‘Errors’ tab

2. Follow the instructions detailed in my blog post from yesterday to
ensure that any calls in your add-on code to appear as they previously
did in the ‘Messages’ tab of the Error Console window:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/03/27/changes-to-console-log-behaviour-in-sdk-1-14/

We’ve logged a bug to improve this experience via an update to the
Add-on Builder Helper add-on so this will not be an issue in the
future.

cheers, Jeff