User:George3

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Contents 1 About 2 TODO 3 Refs 4 Migrations 5 Off-Site References

[edit] About

I'm George Rypysc (Rip-ISH), a longtime Mozilla fan.

So far, most of my contributions here have focused on the DOM (document, form, event) and the Browser Feature Detection document.

Contact me at george@justwidgets.com

[edit] TODO

0. Get feedback on revised properties section of DOM:document and copy over to actual article if others think it's an improvement.

awk script to do some of wiki-list to wiki-table conversion:

gawk -F: '{print "\"|-|<code>" substr($1,3) ":" $2 "</code>||" substr($3,2) "||\","}' domTemp.txt > dom1

1. (maybe - if work more w/XML) Update XML in Mozilla

2. Enhancement: Browser Feature Detection and related docs (orig. on DevEdge [1]):

• +new browser releases (and correlate to rendering engine vers.), +Safari(WebKit[2] == WebCore + JavaScriptCore)
• wikilink property names
• Get .js code uploaded so it will run (like http://developer.mozilla.org/samples/domref/ )
• alphabetize props/methods (in js code too) or keep as is? The current order seems to follow the order given in the W3C specs.
• Caveat of this detection method?: Does CSS2 "playDuring" really work in NS7 or 9? - 0 bugs found for "playDuring" search.
• Background:
  • Different methods to detect feature support in browsers:
    1. Examine user agent string navigator.product or .userAgent or ?- Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support
    2. Direct feature detection: if (typeof document.getElementById != 'undefined') or (?)if (document.all)...

       as seen at Browser Feature Detection

    3. document.implementation.hasFeature("Core","2.0"), Node.isSupported(feature, version), etc - see [3]

       as seen at DOM Support Detection - W3C

       see caveat at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-common0.html#dom-feature

  • Fine grained detection is hazardous/prone to write too specifically for certain browsers? (en.wikipedia article discusses this)
  • Or a way to work around less full implementations until they catch up?
  • When finalized, let User:Mathieu Deaudelin and User:CitizenK's TODO know about change in status from started to completed
  • DOM Test Suite - W3C/NIST
  • O'Reilly book: Ch5 on browser feature detection

Is this doc even useful to people/used by people?:

date	access count
2007-08-24	8,405
2007-11-06	9,540
2007-12-16	10,702

3. Migration: DOM Sample Code (<title> = "Samples using DOM 1, DOM 2, CSS and JS")

Get uploaded to ? - http://developer.mozilla.org/samples/domref/

Under mozilla.org/docs/dom/reference/ "DOM Reference and Links"

Links from devmo/MDC page: DHTML Demonstrations Using DOM/Style

Listed on Migration list: MDC:Existing_Content#Samples

4. 1. Update DOM Levels (I couldn't find any other doc which tracks level of DOM/HTML5 support)

• the bugs mentioned in the doc probably need updating - e.g. Never mentioned for DOM3/DOM L3 see bug 212218
• doc lists five modules to DOM3, but six given at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model
• DOM Level 3's "XPath module" != XML's "XPath v1.0"? (document.implementation.hasFeature("XPath","3.0") == true, not "1.0")
• +DOM Level 0 for historical completeness (but focus on how Gecko "supports"), Definition of "DOM0" = [4] "Although the W3C never produced a specification for DOM 0, it was nonetheless a partially documented model and was included in the specification of HTML 4.", also [5]
• Newer DOM-expanding specs?: WHATWG HTML5, Forms2, etc http://www.whatwg.org/specs/
• Refs: DOM owners, Old? DOM roadmap, mozilla.dev.tech.dom, src: mozilla/dom/public/idl

5. Consistency, completeness (remove red-links): DOM document, navigator, and window.

6. Misc:

• see Talk:xptcall_FAQ#docs_on_lxr
• see Orig.Doc footer and if no feedback, for consistency and to orphan a redundant template, finish migrating: these which use {{OrigDocInfoMini}}

7. Special:Wantedpages

8. Completeness: Interfaces, HTML:Element

[edit] Refs

• How to list all images or templates or ??: Go to the wiki's "Special pages", select Prefix index, choose the namespace from the drop down, hit 'Go'
• [[wikimo: ]] = wiki.mozilla.org
• See QuickStart (tables, etc): wikimo:User:George3
• Delete == put in [[Category:Junk]] (see here)
• MDC:Custom Templates
• irc://irc.mozilla.org/devmo channel Not listed on irc.mozilla.org
• wikimo:User:Dria/On Tagging

[edit] Migrations

• xulplanet.com: MimeTypeArray
• both XUL and DOM - via templates? - mozilla.dev.mdc
• DevEdge mirror
• DevEdge:Priority Content
• HTML Guide

[edit] Off-Site References

• W3C's Window Object 1.0 - draft 2006, window.navigator won't be part of spec.
• Spring Into Technical Writing...