I'd be all about jumping in on editing the docs and the like, and I currently have a demo dump for most of my stuff (it's a combination of my scripts, scripts I've found/liked).
I'll do my best (errrr) to try and convert all the old demos and come up with a decent presentation page for consideration to be moved to the official demos - I'd especially *love* to have the show/hide of the 1.11 demos put back in. -kb On Jan 9, 1:27 am, rpflo <[email protected]> wrote: > While the docs could use some help (I guess), I love them. > > I'm a graphic designer who got involved with a software company > designing their user interfaces. I don't consider myself a developer, > and I don't know a lick of "real" javascript. I got sick of our > developers saying things were "too hard" or "impossible" and set out > to learn to program a bit to throw it back at them (if the graphic > designer can do it ... why can't the devs?!). > > When mootools 1.2 and the new website came out things finally started > to click. I quit being a copy/paste moron, and have started to build > some really impressive applications interfaces (so much so that when I > showed one of my company's real developers an interface piece I > designed and asked if we could add that to our company's web app he > said "Desktop stuff is hard to move onto the web" and I replied "this > is javascript: it is the web"). > > So anyway, just saying, the new docs page helped me go from idiot to a > decent code monkey. So thank you! > > (from a usability stand point it's top-notch, very well thought out) > > On Jan 8, 4:14 pm, nutron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Doc changes should go through github. Fork the core, make your change, and > > send a pull request. > > The Event.target thing is not something that needs to be documented as it's > > part of JavaScript, and our documentation should not seek to cover that > > ground. > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM, jiggliemon (via Nabble) < > > [email protected]<ml-user%[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > As I learn more about the library I'd like to update the docs. Nutron > > > recently helped clear up some Event.target questions I had that would > > > be well suited in the docs (as they're unclear about where the target > > > is referent to) and other minor issues like this. > > > > Is there someone we could email the doc submissions to currently? > > > > On Jan 8, 9:04 am, nutron > > > <anut...@...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2130784&i=0>> > > > wrote: > > > > > I think version control for the docs is just fine - I don't think we > > > should > > > > move the docs off github. > > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Jan Kassens (via Nabble) < > > > > ml-user+57495-467023...@...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2130784&i=1> > > > <ml-user%2b57495-467023...@...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2130784&i=2>> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I just wanted to chime in here and say that I'm pretty excited about > > > > > all your enthusiasm and every contribution from the community is > > > > > highly welcome. (after all it is an open source project!). > > > > > But I also figured the infrastructure isn't perfect, especially > > > > > because git is a bit different from what most people know, but those > > > > > who are want to learn it are free to fork mootools on github and send > > > > > me a pull request. > > > > > I'll try to think of an easier way to contribute to the docs as well > > > > > as the demos. Perfectly something not involving a version control > > > > > system at least for the docs. > > > > > > On Jan 8, 2009, at 0:42, nutron wrote: > > > > > > > Before all this good will evaporates, let me reiterate that all you > > > > > > guys / gals who are saying you want to help is both much appreciated > > > > > > and quite welcome. > > > > > > > At issue now is mostly that of infrastructure. Specifically, making > > > > > > it so that you CAN contribute to things like the demos, which are no > > > > > > longer part of the code repository (and thus harder for you to get > > > > > > your hands on). I'm still looking for Tom and Valerio to pop online. > > > > > > Tom just moved out here (to California) for his new job like, 4 days > > > > > > ago, and Valerio had some huge deadline as of a few days ago. So > > > > > > I'll keep this as a to-do item on my list to get them engaged on > > > > > > this topic as soon as possible. Don't get discouraged if it takes a > > > > > > few more days. It's the beginning of the year and a lot of people > > > > > > are still kinda getting their wheels rolling after taking a long > > > > > > vacation. > > > > > > > Stay tuned. > > > > > > -- > > > > > Jan - MooTools comitter > > > > > twitter/blog:http://kassens.net > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > View message @ > > > > >http://n2.nabble.com/General-thoughts-on-Mootools.net-tp2118117p21268... > > > > > > To start a new topic under MooTools Users, email > > > > > ml-node+660466-1583815...@...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2130784&i=3> > > > <ml-node%2b660466-1583815...@...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2130784&i=4>> > > > > > > To unsubscribe from MooTools Users, click here< (link removed) >. > > > > > ----- > > > > The MooTools Tutorial: http://www.mootorial.comwww.mootorial.com > > > > Clientcide: http://www.clientcide.comwww.clientcide.com > > > > -- > > > > View this message in context: > > >http://n2.nabble.com/General-thoughts-on-Mootools.net-tp2118117p21288... > > > > Sent from the MooTools Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ------------------------------ > > > View message @ > > >http://n2.nabble.com/General-thoughts-on-Mootools.net-tp2118117p21307... > > > To start a new topic under MooTools Users, email > > > [email protected]<ml-node%[email protected]> > > > To unsubscribe from MooTools Users, click here< (link removed) >. > > > ----- > > The MooTools Tutorial: http://www.mootorial.comwww.mootorial.com > > Clientcide: http://www.clientcide.comwww.clientcide.com > > -- > > View this message in > > context:http://n2.nabble.com/General-thoughts-on-Mootools.net-tp2118117p21307... > > Sent from the MooTools Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
