The Sheppy Report: Week of December 20

This week, I’m feeling much better!

• Documented the new XUL browser.messageManager property, as well as window.messageManager.
• Noted that add-ons that change GUIDs in new updates are updated properly now after a bug fix.
• Added notes explaining that when you see wrapped objects in the console log, you can’t peek into them.
• Moved some IDL-related documentation around, creating our new Interface development guide. This is still something of a work in progress, and certainly needs updating.
• Trevor Hobson wrote an initial article on how to best comment IDL to let his interface documentation generator extension work best. I made some amendments and got feedback from some developers, and now it’s part of the interface development guide.
• Documented the XUL window element’s new chromemargin attribute.
• Of all things, I updated the docs for the HTML marquee element to clean up the text a bit and add a “non-standard” header.

We could use someone that spends their life in IDL to write us a reference guide to XPIDL. We don’t really have one, and one would be awfully nice to have!