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| gandalf | hi |
| Waldo | decides Help:Custom Templates needs to be organized more than just by template |
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| Straxus | and I'm sure you're all awaiting with baited breath what my question is |
| :D |
| 'cept for you, Sander - you already saw the script in the other two channels |
| anyways |
| have an article about Mozilla-based drag and drop file upload that I wanted to add to the Mozilla documentation pile |
| Waldo | anyway, let's transfer discussion over to here now :-) |
| yeah, it probably is the <pre/> elements |
| Straxus | it
handles dragging an arbitrary file system file onto the browser window,
making it available to the page, and then handling it in the page |
| Waldo | a couple things you'll probably want to know: |
| Straxus | will have to knock down the size of some of the code then |
| Waldo | no, actually you probably won't |
| what'll likely happen is when it gets published, it'll be put on devmo, which is a wiki |
| most of the stuff in the wiki is in wikicode, which is simple enough, but isn't really HTML |
| you can still use HTML in most of it, tho, and <pre/> is one of the elements that carries over |
| it's not formalized yet, but what'll probably happen is the article will get "cleaned up" a bit |
| Straxus | but <strong>s and <a>s need to be redone in wiki syntax |
| k |
| Waldo | yeah, some things will need to be redone, but much of it should be directly transferrable without too much effort |
| Straxus | and part 2 of the article, due Thursday, deals with how to jar up code for Moz to use |
| so things like permissions calls can be done remotely |
| 'course, the jarring talk there is general - it's done in the context of this example, but it can be used for arbitrary code |
| Waldo | "cleaning
up" probably will consist of grammar/spelling nits, if any, comments
from the POV of a programmer on how things might be clarified (once
again, if necessary), and some sort of code formatting stuff |
| Straxus | dunno if something like that already exists on the site, but I made sure to explain why e.g. you can't use Sun's jarsigner |
| yeah, everyone in docs has their own set of pet peeves grammar-wise - I'm the same way. :) |
| Waldo | I doubt there's anything yet - code signing in Mozilla is a somewhat foreign topic, unfortunately |
| Straxus | hopefully not any longer |
| Waldo | the
code formatting stuff hasn't been standardized, but my guess is one
aspect which should help with the long line lengths deals with calling
methods on objects |
| Straxus | I tried to make this one a cohesive article, explaining the pitfalls and why they happen |
| the classes.Components lines are all quite long |
| heh |
| Waldo | for example, if you had |var x = foo.bar.baz.quux();| (where the various sub-objects are really long to type), you'd probably convert it to this:
var x = foo.bar // pretend the dots are lined up
.baz
.quux();
|
| there are better examples in LXR - gimme a sec and I'll find ont |
| Straxus | hmm... I think my personal pref would be e.g.: |
| Waldo | s/ont/one/ |
| Straxus | var x = foo.bar |
| .baz |
| .quux(); |
| to show levels of offset and indentation |
| but I understand what you mean |
| Waldo | anyway, most of this hasn't been formalized, but my guess is dria's working on it |
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| Straxus | k |
| I'll check back later then, gotta do the lunch and meeting thing anyways |
| Waldo | okay - I'll pass on a copy of the conversation next time I see dria |
| Straxus | cool, thanks |
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