What next?
Now that the Firefox 3 developer documentation is apparently complete, I’d like to pose this question: what would you like me to write up next? There’s tons of stuff that needs to be written about, and I’m having trouble deciding what to focus on next.
Sure, I have my preferences, but it’s not really about me at all, is it?
So this is your chance to steer my direction a bit for the coming weeks. What area of the documentation would you like to see me focus on next?
I’m sort of feeling the itch to write some sample code. I should find something along those lines to do. Hm.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
The FF3 developer documentation looks awesome–thanks!
Regarding stuff to work on: when I had to embed Gecko for Enso a year or two ago, I had a harrowing time figuring out how to do it, in part because much of the documentation was out-of-date. I’m not quite sure how the documentation has progressed–there’s some mention on the embedding how-to that the reader should just ignore the document and use XULRunner–but maybe cleaning this up could be useful? I’ve heard that WebKit can be embedded using 3 lines of code, so improving our docs could be a good way to keep up with the competition–although if you’re up for something even more challenging, writing some kind of wrapper so that it only takes 3 lines of code to embed Gecko/XULRunner would be pretty awesome too!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Another thing that would be useful would be to move everything developer-related on http://www.mozilla.org, such as the XPCShell reference, over to dev.mozilla.org. This is mainly useful to me because it means I can improve the docs when they’re on dev.mozilla.org (because it’s a wiki), whereas I can’t seem to do that on http://www.mozilla.org.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Places:Migration_Guide
This one is not fully finished.
And some examples about SQLite are needed.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
We’re looking for volunteers to help migrate content from mozilla.org over to MDC. If anyone’s interested in helping, please feel free to drop me a line.
As for the Places Migration Guide — you’re right! I hadn’t noticed that was incomplete. I’ll take a look at that.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:58 am
developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/MDC:Documentation_Wishlist
April 24th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Obviously, I’m aware of the documentation wishlist. I was looking for suggestions on how to prioritize the work that needs to be done.