The Sheppy Report: Week of January 24

This was an absurdly productive week, even before our wildly successful documentation sprint — which Janet will be blogging about separately.

Stuff I did before the doc sprint

• Documented the nsIMenuObjectBox interface, which picked up a new attribute recently.
• Added notes that the MozAfterPaint event is no longer sent by default:
  • MozAfterPaint
  • Mozilla preferences for uber-geeks
• Documented the alternate style sheet API
  • Live example
  • document.enableStyleSheetsForSet()
  • document.lastStyleSheetSet
  • document.preferredStyleSheetSet
  • document.selectedStyleSheetSet
• Finally added a PromoteJS campaign box to my blog. Had to hack at my theme a bit to do it, which is why I hadn’t gotten to it previously.
• Finished the documentation for the Add-on Repository API:
  • Add-on Repository code module (written by Mossop, cleaned up by me)
  • SearchCallback
  • Interfacing with the Add-on Repository (a how-to guide with sample code)
• Updated the toolbar reference documentation to cover the idea of external toolbars.
  • XUL toolbar element
  • XUL toolbox element
  • The toolbar‘s toolboxid property.
  • The toolbox’s externalToolbars property.
• Created a new Performance section to contain performance-related documentation and started moving existing content into this section.
  • Cleaned up and updated the PerfMeasurement.jsm reference.
  • Added Measuring performance using the PerfMeasurement.jsm code module.
• Documented the new -moz-windows-theme media query.

Stuff I did during the doc sprint

• Added the MobileOnlyInline and MobileOnlyHeader templates, which insert “Mobile Only as of Gecko X” notes in the documentation.
• Created the JSFiddleLink template, which creates a “See this on JSFiddle” button.
• Documentation for Electrolysis content views has been written; the affected documents are:
  • Working with content views (new)
  • nsIContentView (new)
  • nsIContentViewManager (new)
  • nsIFrameLoader (updated)
  • nsIDOMWindowUtils (updated)
• Documented nsIProfile, then realized it’s so obsolete it was never used in Firefox. But we have it for historical reference now anyway.
• After that, I moved on and documented the new Toolkit Profile Manager APIs:
  • nsIToolkitProfileService
  • nsIToolkitProfile
  • nsIProfileLock
  • nsIProfileUnlocker
• Made multiple updates to the MDC Style Guide to clarify several points, mostly related to code samples.
• Added screen shots from Google Chrome to the HTML meter element documentation, since it’s not supported in Gecko yet.
• Created the EmbedSVG template, which renders an SVG file that’s attached to the article into the page, given its filename.
• Reviewed and copy-edited articles updated by others during the sprint.

Crazy awesome!