Re: Web IDL interfaces now require explicit [Exposed] annotations

2019-10-01 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute/Howto/Write_an_API_reference/Information_contained_in_a_WebIDL_file . It was only a small mention. I also removed the separate mention of the default value: "If no annotation is available, the default value is Window." Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writ

Doc review request for MIME type “codecs” parameter article

2019-08-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
uracy from people with a closer familiarity with the topic. Make corrections, or suggest them to me and I’ll make them if you’re not comfortable doing it yourself. I’m not picky. ;) Thank you in advance! [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/codecs_parameter Eric She

Re: Intent to Ship: Move Extended Validation Information out of the URL bar

2019-08-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
. Edge is also no longer showing the EV entity name in their URL bar. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer MDN Web Docs <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozil

Re: Intent to Implement & Ship: WebRTC Perfect Negotiation APIs

2019-07-24 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
arguments 4. 71 http://bugzil.la/1568296 Stopping and stopped transceivers Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer MDN Web Docs <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platfo

Image format documentation review requested

2019-06-10 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
not be - Anything explained awkwardly - Anything else you think should be fixed, changed, or added The goal isn’t to be a complete detailed list of every fact about every format, but to provide enough information to allow a developer to decide what makes sense for them to use. Eric Shepherd Senior

Re: Intent to implement and ship: CSS 'prefers-color-scheme' media feature

2019-03-19 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Presumably that’s noted appropriately in some manner in Bugzilla? On March 19, 2019 at 7:45:53 PM, Hiroyuki Ikezoe (hike...@mozilla.com) wrote: The Android backend for prefers-color-scheme didn't get on Firefox 67, it's just landed on mozilla-central, will be shipped in Firefox 68. Eric

Re: Intent to Implement and Ship: break-before, break-after, break-inside CSS properties

2018-12-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
, 2018 at 9:12:39 AM, Emilio Cobos Álvarez (emi...@crisal.io) wrote: Summary: Implement these properties to control breaks in the page, make page-break-{before,after} legacy shorthands of those. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer MDN Web Docs <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog:

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-23 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
No… although you could turn sync off again after the initial sync is complete, I guess. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer MDN Web Docs https://developer.mozilla.org/ On Oct 23, 2018, 10:20 AM -0400, bruno ais , wrote: > Can sharing with firefox sync be done just one way? > >

Re: Coming in Firefox 65: Dedicated Profiles Per Install and Profile Downgrade Protection

2018-10-23 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Michael, Should be able to just enable sync in each copy of Firefox and sync the items you need across profiles that way. Is that good enough? -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer MDN Web Docs https://developer.mozilla.org/ On Oct 23, 2018, 10:08 AM -0400, Michael Verdi , wrote

Re: Intent to implement and ship: HTMLMarqueeElement

2018-10-15 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
arl/moz > > > > > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.c

Re: User Agent Strings in Firefox and their history

2018-09-24 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Cool, thanks! If nothing else, please make sure they're not duplicating material and that they link to each other. On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:37 PM Mike Taylor wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On 9/20/18 11:21 AM, Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) wrote: > > We actually have a page on MDN about thi

Re: User Agent Strings in Firefox and their history

2018-09-20 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
[1] > < > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cizvn4wahdfwHUVG_H_Uf15HPBTWyB6GH7j_utHdrKc/edit?usp=sharing > > > > thanks, > > -- > Mike Taylor > Web Compat, Mozilla > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > http

Re: Plan for Sunsetting MozReview

2018-09-10 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
and missing review context, but hopefully this should help > explore the changed code in most cases. > > Cheers, > Gerald > > On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 8:17:24 AM UTC+10, Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) > wrote: > > We've noticed that attachment links are no longer w

Re: Plan for Sunsetting MozReview

2018-08-27 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
o decommission Splinter as well; >> however, we know we need some time to work out the kinks in Phabricator. >> Splinter will remain operational near-term, but we ask everybody to >> familiarize themselves with Phabricator and file bugs when things don't >> work. *Please do no

Re: Intent to ship '-webkit-appearance' and changes to '-moz-appearance' values

2018-08-16 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
I believe > is necessary if we're going to converge UAs to something that > is "compatible". > > > /Mats > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platf

Re: Intent to Ship: Shadow DOM and Custom Elements

2018-08-15 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
> > > > -Olli > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http

Re: Intent to implement and ship: WebXR Device API in Firefox Nightly

2018-08-07 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
behaviour. Any changes are expected to be >> identified before our implementation is ready to ship to release. >> > > Sounds great. :) > > -Boris > > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.o

Prioritizing media documentation

2018-08-03 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
to anyone who helps. Your input will help to ensure MDN's media documentation becomes the best in the world! Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.

Re: C++ standards proposal for a embedding library

2018-07-30 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
e's > plenty of scope for improvement, a minimal standard that evolves more > slowly than the web and its implementations seems like it would do more > harm than good. And thus a web_view class isn't well-suited for > specification by the C++ standards committee. > > -myk > > > __

Re: Intent to ship: application/json mime type support for OpenSearch Suggestions

2018-06-20 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
> 1-1-draft-6.md#the-url-element > > [2] http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensio > ns/Suggestions#URL_elements > > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozill

Re: Upcoming C++ standards meeting in Rapperswil, Switzerland

2018-06-20 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
ndards-meeting-in-jacksonville-march-2018/ > > [4] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/# > mailing2018-02 > > [5] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/# > mailing2018-04 > __

Re: How to request documentation for new features or report problems on MDN

2018-05-24 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
writers' team manager || Mozilla > developer.mozilla.org || MDN Web Docs > cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills > > > On 17 May 2018, at 05:27, Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) <esheph...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > > > Yes. Always, you're welcome to make needed changes yoursel

Re: How to request documentation for new features or report problems on MDN

2018-05-16 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
ot;dev-doc-needed" keyword to the engineering bug. We've had a few > duplications recently because of this. > > > Many thanks! > > > Chris Mills > > MDN content lead & writers' team manager || Mozilla > > developer.mozilla.o

Re: Is super-review still a thing?

2018-05-10 Thread Eric Shepherd
review for cases involving a lot of interrelated patches, architectural changes, UX updates, etc. would also make a lot of sense. Call it a meta-review, perhaps; as in reviewing a meta bug's set of changes. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network https

Re: Intent to ship: Allow the overflow shorthand to accept two values.

2018-04-18 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
th proceeding here, thanks! > > -- Emilio > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstamped

Re: Components and QueryInterface can no longer be used in non-system globals

2018-03-27 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
9585 and > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389581 > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog:

Re: The future of "remote XUL"

2018-03-27 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
slowly remove support for some XUL > tags, etc... > > Thoughts? My gut feeling is that we should just turn off remote XUL > outside the IsInAutomation() and maybe the "dom.allow_XUL_XBL_for_file" > case. > > -Boris > ___

Re: FYI: Short Nightly Shield Study involving DNS over HTTPs (DoH)

2018-03-18 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
orm aggregate tracking of > hostname requests, or tie common hostname requests from an origin together > somehow? What is our recourse if they break this agreement (the recent > Facebook debacle seems likely to make folks jumpy). > ___ > dev-p

Re: Ci, Cr, Cc, and Cu are now automatically defined in all chrome scopes

2018-02-02 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
itions of these variables. > > Andrew > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.co

Re: Intent to Unship: stream decoder for BinHex format

2017-10-25 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Man… It’s weird that this makes me all nostalgic. :) Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer, MDN MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/ Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ On October 18, 2017 at 8:50:20 AM, Joshua Cranmer  (pidgeo...@gmail.com) wrote: FWIW, I've considered ripping out the binhex

Re: Intent to ship version 4 of the Safe Browsing protocol

2017-09-06 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
On August 18, 2017 at 2:57:13 AM, Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:43:19PM -0700, Daniel Veditz wrote: > 100 options is 4950 configurations to test. I think you mean 2^100. That's 1.26 x 10^30. Also known as “a boatload.” Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Wri

Re: Intent to Ship throttling of tracking timeouts

2017-05-12 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Thank you for the details. I’ve added dev-doc-needed on the bug and added a link to this thread so the writer can find the information here quickly. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter:

Re: Intent to Ship throttling of tracking timeouts

2017-05-11 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
So part of private browsing and not a developer-facing feature, then? Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheppy > On May 11, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Andreas

dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org

2017-03-21 Thread Eric Shepherd
status of datetime? Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Deprecating XUL in new UI

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Shepherd
Certainly given that there are already several projects that use HTML to build desktop and mobile app UIs, standardizing ways to use HTML to represent any missing parts of a desktop UI would be a worthwhile endeavor. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://developer.mozilla.org

Re: Intent to disable service workers and push in 52 ESR

2017-01-23 Thread Eric Shepherd
Any time something is disabled or removed from ESR, please be sure the developer docs team knows about it, because that’s something that has to be reflected in our documentation. I’m not aware of many (if any) documentation that says something exists in version X but not in ESR version X;

Re: Deprecating XUL in new UI

2017-01-23 Thread Eric Shepherd
for everyone. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://developer.mozilla.org/ <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ <http://www.bitstampede.com/> Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy > On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:12 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar

Re: Emoji and Bugzilla

2017-01-23 Thread Eric Shepherd
Yeah, we’re *so* going to start seeing bugs that are done entirely in emoji. I don’t look forward to decoding them, although I’m sure they’ll be incredibly clever and fun. :) > On Jan 17, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > > As the BMO team announced earlier, we're

Re: What are your use cases for the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro?

2017-01-06 Thread Eric Shepherd
[2] > https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/AbouttheTouchBar.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/2957-CH104-SW1 > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > ht

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Iterable declarations on NodeList and DOMTokenList

2016-07-31 Thread Eric Shepherd
ll("whatever").forEach(someFunc) > > and > > document.body.classList.forEach(someFunc) > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290636 -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Bl

Re: KeyboardEvent question for docs update

2016-07-12 Thread Eric Shepherd
ing for it recently. If, however, the same information exists > in other more canonical locations that I was simply unable to locate, > I wouldn't object to the MDN page simply linking to these resources. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://

KeyboardEvent question for docs update

2016-07-11 Thread Eric Shepherd
that's really handy, with tables that have columns for the key value, description, and (if useful) a column for each of the major platforms. Any thoughts appreciated! -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog:

Tech review needed for RTCPeerConnection reference

2016-07-11 Thread Eric Shepherd
/RTCPeerConnection and its subpages and either fix any mistakes or anything unclear, or email me to let me know what you find that needs work. Feel free, too, to tweak or add code sample snippets! -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/>

Doc tech review needed for RTCDataChannel

2016-07-11 Thread Eric Shepherd
. If you know anything that's missing or wrong in the compatibility tables, please advise or update on that, too. Thanks in advance to anyone who has a chance to look over any of this material! -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/>

Re: Intent to implement: HTMLMediaElement::seekToNextFrame()

2016-06-02 Thread Eric Shepherd
to implement: HTMLMediaElement::seekToNextFrame() > We're not going to ship the API enabled in the current form in Release > Firefox. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitte

Re: Intent to implement: HTMLMediaElement::seekToNextFrame()

2016-06-01 Thread Eric Shepherd
playback. Internally, this feature could could be > used to writ media tests. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Doodle: http://doo

How badly out of date is this?

2016-05-31 Thread Eric Shepherd
/Modularization_Techniques If it's worth keeping, I'll move it to the Mozilla documentation area. If not, the archival area. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy

Re: Intent to implement and ship: "passive" option for AddEventListenerOptions

2016-05-06 Thread Eric Shepherd
That's what I figured, but the articles about it didn't seem to say, and the late hour caused me not to think to look at the spec itself. Good deal. > That's a no-op per https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-event-preventdefault. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Netw

Re: Intent to implement and ship: "passive" option for AddEventListenerOptions

2016-05-05 Thread Eric Shepherd
and ship: "passive" option for AddEventListenerOptions > Summary: Authors can declare in their addEventListener call that the > listener will not be calling preventDefault() on the event. This > unlocks certain performance optimizations. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Write

Re: One Firefox repository to rule them all

2016-05-02 Thread Eric Shepherd
eloper productivity and it could > be. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Doodle: http://doodle.com/the.sheppy

Re: One Firefox repository to rule them all

2016-05-02 Thread Eric Shepherd
Yes, this is how I feel too, but anything that gets all revisions in one place would be a huge win for us. > For me, having the CVS history in the mozilla-central repo -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Bl

Re: One Firefox repository to rule them all

2016-05-02 Thread Eric Shepherd
e repositories is to provide developers (and > eventually automation) with more efficient interaction with the > Firefox source repositories. There are several secondary and > side-benefits, including improving the scalability of Try and > MozReview's repositories. -- Eric Shepherd Senio

Re: Intent to unship support for altGlyph

2016-04-29 Thread Eric Shepherd
yph for some time now as an alias for > tspan. altGlyph has been dropped from SVG 2 and neither Chrome nor Edge > support the -> fallback behaviour, though Safari still > does. > > The patch to remove it from the tree is available at [1]. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Wri

Re: Clarifications needed to 'Intent to ship' process

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Shepherd
p' emails. > I propose we require two OKs from the owners/peers of the relevant > module (of which one could be given while reviewing the patch), and > definitely no opposing comments from the owners/peers. But in case > other people object... I guess we'll always have special cases and &g

Re: Triage Plan for Firefox Components

2016-04-11 Thread Eric Shepherd
. > I think we need to have a uniform way of identifying bugs that matter to a > release. Having a different mechanism for each team means that we're likely > to miss something. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network <https://developer.mozilla.org/&

Re: Intent to ship: Support for color-adjust CSS property

2016-04-11 Thread Eric Shepherd
ves us an easy out if a critical issue is discovered. > (For ex, a code path that results in a top crash.) I suggest that we create > the pref in either case and plan to remove it after a couple of releases if > no critical bugs have come in. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mo

Web API / developer docs / dev. evangelism meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2016-02-03 Thread Eric Shepherd
information or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer http://developer.mozilla.org http

NO Web APIs documentation/dev/evangelism meeting this week

2015-12-21 Thread Eric Shepherd
Our regular Thursday morning meeting will not take place this week due to the holiday weekend many of our folks are enjoying. Whether you celebrate or not, please have a safe and happy weekend and we'll see you next week! -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.

Web APIs documentation/evangelism/dev team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-12-15 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Web APIs documentation/evangelism meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-11-30 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Web APIs documentation/evangelism/dev team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-11-25 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Re: Web APIs documentation/evangelism/dev team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-11-25 Thread Eric Shepherd
> Eric Shepherd <mailto:esheph...@mozilla.com> > November 25, 2015 at 8:14 AM > The Web API documentation community meeting, with representatives from > the technical evangelism and the API development teams, will take > place on Thursday at 8 AM Pacific Time (see http://bit.

Web APIs documentation/dev/evangelism meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-11-16 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

API documentation/evangelism/dev teams meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-11-10 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Web APIs documentation/development/engagement meeting Thursday at 8 AM PST

2015-11-02 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Web APIs documentation/evangelism/engineering teams meetup Friday at 8 AM PST

2015-10-20 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Re: Web APIs documentation/evangelism/engineering teams meetup Friday at 8 AM PST

2015-10-20 Thread Eric Shepherd
> Eric Shepherd <mailto:esheph...@mozilla.com> > October 20, 2015 at 1:54 PM > The Web API documentation community meeting, with representatives from > the technical evangelism and the API development teams, will take > place on Thursday at 8 AM Pacific Time (see http://bit.

New agenda URL for tomorrow's 8 AM PDT API docs/evangelism/dev team meeting

2015-10-07 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog

Web APIs documentation/evangelism/dev team meeting

2015-10-06 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampe

Web API docs/evangelism/dev team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-09-30 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampe

Web APIs documentation/evangelism/dev meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-09-22 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampe

Re: Intent to ship: Directory picking and directory drag-and-drop

2015-09-21 Thread Eric Shepherd
ear that if you want to address security concerns, or kill off the feature entirely. I hope it's the former, because the number of times this exact thing has come up for me is not easy to dig up, since it's been a lot of times, especially when working on web deployments or staging of assets for medi

Re: Intent to ship: Directory picking and directory drag-and-drop

2015-09-21 Thread Eric Shepherd
managers, sharing services, and the like. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> __

Web APIs documentation/evangelism/dev team meetup Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-09-16 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampe

Web APIs documentation/engagement/dev team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-09-01 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampe

Web APIs documentation/engagement/developer meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-08-25 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com

Web APIs docs/tech evangelism/dev team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-08-18 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-06 Thread Eric Shepherd
percentage of those Snow Leopard (10.6) users are probably on 32-bit hardware. Is there a way to tell how many? If we can't tell, is there a way to add some flag to telemetry data that would provide this info, so we can make an informed decision? -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

2015-08-05 Thread Eric Shepherd
to maintain a 32-bit Intel build if they really want it (similar to the TenFourFox project). -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com

API docs/development/evangelism team meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-08-04 Thread Eric Shepherd
or suggestions related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Developer Network https://developer.mozilla.org/ Blog

Re: XULRunner future and ownership

2015-07-30 Thread Eric Shepherd
for a long time so I may have useful advice to offer if you need it. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com

Re: XULRunner future and ownership

2015-07-29 Thread Eric Shepherd
on that work -- or whoever picks up writing work for it -- on exactly how to contribute the needed material to MDN. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability https://freebusy.io

API docs/evangelism/development teams meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-07-28 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com

API docs/evangelism/development teams meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-07-22 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: Collecting web platform features implementation status

2015-07-16 Thread Eric Shepherd
Agreed. This is about how we feel about a spec, its content, and the design of its API, not about if or when we will get around to implementing it. That's also something worth capturing, but they're not the same data points at all. Eric Shepherd Sr. Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http

API documentation/evangelism/development teams meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-07-15 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com

Re: Busy indicator API

2015-07-09 Thread Eric Shepherd
it. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Web API documentation and evangelism meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-07-08 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com

Re: Proposal to remove `aFoo` prescription from the Mozilla style guide for C and C++

2015-07-07 Thread Eric Shepherd
FWIW, as a tech writer that has to take all this stuff and make sense of it in documentation, I dislike aFoo but I'm fine with mFood and such to differentiate methods from properties from constants, etc. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https

API Documentation and Tech Evangelism meeting Thursday at 8 AM PDT

2015-07-01 Thread Eric Shepherd
related to APIs on the Web, their documentation, and how we promote these APIs, please add a note or item to the agenda so we can be sure to address it, even if you're unable to attend. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com

Re: [feature] open certain domains into a private window

2015-06-23 Thread Eric Shepherd
I thought we had an open in new private window option when right clicking links. Not a total solution but helps. Eric Shepherd Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Karl Dubost kdub...@mozilla.com wrote: Margaret, Let's hope it's the appropriate list (or maybe I should just open

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-09 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
, I think.​ ​I found it to be a pretty neat feature, frankly. I use it for personal projects on my own Bugzilla for shareware stuff I do for retro machines.​ -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy

Re: Replacing Mozmill driven tests for Firefox with Marionette

2015-05-12 Thread Eric Shepherd
impacts the building/developing Mozilla documentation, which has quite a bit of coverage of Mozmill and how to use it for testing Firefox etc. If you can share any details, notes, etc that would be relevant, I would appreciate it. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-07 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
unicorns and rainbows land. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev

Re: Proposal to alter the coding style to not require the usage of 'virtual' where 'override' is used

2015-05-07 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
point that this macro situation can be solved in other ways, we just disagree what those ways should be. :-) ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform -- Eric Shepherd Senior

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-06 Thread Eric Shepherd
online over the long term. Will make for a fun project for someone, but will take time. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform

Re: No more binary components in extensions

2015-05-04 Thread Eric Shepherd
or targeting projects other than Firefox. Thanks! -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-03 Thread Eric Shepherd
to the North Pole only to have someone steal your sled just before you get there. :) -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-01 Thread Eric Shepherd
are valid use cases for straight-up HTTP, even if they're rare. (FWIW, I concede that the not everything needs encryption position is a little overstated, but I also think that there really is stuff that doesn't need encrypting, even if it's a tiny fraction of the Web's traffic). -- Eric Shepherd

Re: Removing cruft preferences

2015-04-29 Thread Eric Shepherd
that are probably uninteresting, we should note their removal in the appropriate Firefox X for developers pages. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy

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