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6 Responses to “Give the new MDC a test drive!”

1. Giuliano says:
   July 1st, 2008 at 3:29 AM

   Hi Eric, a few days ago I sent you an email in l10n mailing list about the translation of MDC skin. Did you get it? Please check.

   Cheers,
   Giuliano

2. skierpage says:
   July 1st, 2008 at 3:54 AM

   I can’t login with my old MDC username and password, yet the site won’t let me register as my username is in use. So you preserved usernames but not passwords? (I’ve asked for a password reminder.)

   There are pages tagged XULRunner, yet clicking the tag name takes me to http://devmo.dekiwiki.mozilla.org/Special:Tags?tag=XULRunner&language=en which says “There are no pages that are tagged XULRunner in this language.”

3. Neil Rashbrook says:
   July 1st, 2008 at 5:38 AM

   Well, the test site still has two favicons, but at least they both work

   By the way, perhaps you should point out that changes made on the test server will not be ported back to the real database

4. Pelle Johnsen says:
   July 10th, 2008 at 5:26 AM

   Must admit I’m not to fond of the new font and colors. To me it is somewhat less readable than the current version. Please consider using a sans serif font and a bit more contrasty colors, especially for code samples. Seems particularly bad on Linux.

   -Pelle

5. Nuovo volto per il Mozilla Developer Center :: News Orebla.it says:
   August 5th, 2008 at 3:04 AM

   [...] notizia del rinnovo grafico è stata data dal Blog di Eric Shepherd, developer documentation lead di [...]

6. Gérard Talbot says:
   August 6th, 2008 at 3:30 PM

   Eric,

   Yesterday, I spent some 40 min. carefully craft-editing a message into your blog after spending quite a bit of time reviewing, testing, trying the new MDC. When submitted, a message said my post message looked like spam (probably because of embedded links) and that I needed to work the message again and to go back. Which I did. With the back button. I lost all of the previous edit. All of it.

   This is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable.

   I worked hard and long hours, hundreds of hours, editing several webpages now hosted at MDC. You never considered my perspective, my point of view either or gave it any kind of importance, relevance. There are much more important, determinant issues that font, color coherence, visual coherence (and other cosmetic, formating references), easiness of updating, easiness of writing, openness of multi-input from all kinds of people with various levels of experience.

   Anyone can edit anything, anywhere in MDC in any format for any reason without any kind of imputability or justification, with hundreds of validation markup errors, with transitional DTD, with XHTML served as text/html, in typical tag-soup format, in wiki-tag-soup fashion, etc… You miss the whole point of what MDC should be about. You miss what the “D” in MDC stands for.

   The new MDC version now has more validation markup errors on every single webpage. In XHTML served as text/html. With a transitional DTD on top of everything. And you claim (or want to believe) that the new MDC version is now better than the previous version, than before??

   My conclusion is this: your blog (and its mechanical anti-spam feature) as it currently works does not give a * about how much time posters can lose when providing honorable feedbacks. And the new MDC version does not care one bit about structure of webpage, good markup semantic, markup validity, CSS code validity, conformance to W3C web standards, adherence to widely known, accepted and generally acknowledged good coding techniques, to recommendable coding techniques, etc. The new MDC version does not care one bit about all of that because you do not understand the importance and the relevance of such for webpage design, website building, webpage interoperability, website maintenance, accessibility, forward-compatibility, etc

   Gérard Talbot

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