Bit Stampede

OK, @font-face was pretty easy to write up — someone wrote it up all the way back in February.  I just had to remove the notes about it not being implemented yet, add a live example, and tie it into the Firefox 3.1 for developers page.  I love it when things go nice and easy like that.

Over the weekend, I did some cleanup work on the documentation for media queries and various other topics; these should all be in pretty good shape now.

This morning, I wrote up the documentation for the MozAfterPaint event (courtesy of the blog post by roc that went up while I was asleep, which made the work much, much easier).

Remember: in open source, there’s no such thing as plagiarism. :)

Lots to do but the progress is great.

I’ve posted the article “Using geolocation“, which provides introductory information on using the new geolocation API being introduced in Firefox 3.1.  I’ll be adding a working example tomorrow (later today, actually, now that I look at my clock and see it’s already Friday).  I’ve also not yet documented the interfaces behind geolocation, but I’ll be doing those tomorrow.

As always, if you happen to notice any errors, please feel free to correct them or let me know what needs fixing so I can do it.

Enjoy!

I’ve just completed documentation for the HTML 5 audio element.  This is pretty nifty stuff; I’ll be working on the video element tonight and tomorrow morning.  I’m waiting for email back in response to a couple of questions (it’s possible I may have documented some attributes we don’t yet support), and I’m sure I’ll be updating the content in the next day or two.

Also, I wrote an example which doesn’t work yet — I think because the MDC server doesn’t currently serve up .ogg files with the correct MIME type; I’ve filed a ticket to address that.

One great thing that sometimes happens while writing documentation is that your simple samples you throw together uncover bugs that you get to report.  That’s sort of “bonus, value-added work” as far as I’m concerned.  In this case, I discovered that the fallback text always appears, even if the audio plays.

Anyway, if you happen to notice any problems with this documentation, feel free — as always — to correct it, or drop me a note if you’d rather I handle the correction.

The documentation for CSS transforms in Firefox 3.1 is now more or less complete.  Both the -moz-transform and -moz-transform-origin properties have been documented, and there’s also documentation for the CSS transform functions.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to edit and add more examples!