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

2019-10-01 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Is the page “WebIDL bindings” up to date as well? I often find it useful too. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/WebIDL_bindings On October 1, 2019 at 5:58:36 AM, Christopher Mills (cmi...@mozilla.com) wrote: I've removed the mention of PrimaryGlobal from https://developer.mozilla.

Doc review request for MIME type “codecs” parameter article

2019-08-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
If anyone has time to spare at some point, I've finished drafting a new article "The 'codecs' parameter in common media types” [1]. It’s intricate enough, and gathers enough information from a wide enough variety of tricky sources, that it would really benefit from a review for technical accuracy f

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

2019-08-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
I’m glad to hear it; the presence of the EV indicator often occupied so much space that the URL bar would become practically unusable. Example attached. On August 12, 2019 at 4:05:09 AM, Johann Hofmann (jhofm...@mozilla.com) wrote: The Chrome team recently removed EV indicators from the URL bar

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

2019-07-24 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Pleased to see these changes coming. It will improve the negotiation process’s reliability while at the same time making it easier to explain to new developers. On July 23, 2019 at 9:15:06 PM, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey (j...@mozilla.com) wrote: "Perfect Negotiation" refers to four API improvements to Web

Image format documentation review requested

2019-06-10 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
I’ve just finished writing up a guide to image file types and formats. Before making it widely hooked into the main body of our documentation, I would like to get it reviewed by engineers to ensure accuracy. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Image_types Feel free to edit

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 Shepher

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

2018-12-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
I just now saw this; as both a developer and as a writer on the MDN docs team, I can tell you this will really be fantastic to have, and I can’t wait! Not having control over breaks makes a lot of layout fail, especially when trying to use multiple columns or grids to do layout. On December 7, 201

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

2018-10-23 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:18 PM Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) > > wrote: > > > 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? > > > &

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: > Is there

Re: Intent to implement and ship: HTMLMarqueeElement

2018-10-15 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
> Karl Dubost, mozilla 💡 Webcompat > http://www.la-grange.net/karl/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.bitstamp

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 abou

Re: User Agent Strings in Firefox and their history

2018-09-20 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
ozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Plan for Sunsetting MozReview

2018-09-10 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
s pretty, 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

Re: Plan for Sunsetting MozReview

2018-08-27 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
t >> work. *Please do not wait for Splinter EOL to try Phabricator; we need your >> feedback before then in order to act on it.* >> >> Mark >> >> > ___ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

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

2018-08-16 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
g/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

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:

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

2018-08-07 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
lla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Prioritizing media documentation

2018-08-03 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
you in advance 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.i

Re: C++ standards proposal for a embedding library

2018-07-30 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
ss, while those implementations are imperfect, and there'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.

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

2018-06-20 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
a.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

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

2018-06-20 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
o.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/trip-report-c- > standards-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)
it is, so it's helpful to be aware of that -- because cases like this are a lot less likely that we on the writing team will find on our own. On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:11 AM, Chris Mills wrote: > Yes, what sheppy said ;-) > > Chris Mills > MDN content lead &a

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

2018-05-16 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
"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.org || MDN Web Docs >

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

2018-04-18 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
> any concern with 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://ww

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

2018-03-27 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
nd > 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: http://www.bitstampede.com

Re: The future of "remote XUL"

2018-03-27 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
t > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy Check my Availability <https://freebusy.io/esheph...@mozilla.com> ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

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

2018-03-18 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
t; 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-platform mailing list &g

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

2018-02-02 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
That's... brilliant. How did it take this many years for that to come up? :) Sheppy On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Andrew McCreight wrote: > Bug 767640 just merged to mozilla-central. This patch makes it so that Ci, > Cr, Cc, and Cu are automatically defined in any chrome scope

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 de

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 Writer,

Re: Intent to Ship throttling of tracking timeouts

2017-05-12 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
https://twitter.com/sheppy > On May 11, 2017, at 11:32 PM, Bill McCloskey wrote: > > (I hope everything I've said is correct. I've been following the change but > I had nothing to do with the code.) ___ dev-platfo

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 Far

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

2015-07-22 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
witter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-09 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
y're not actively being used anymore, 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.b

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-07 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
ess concerned, although not 100% living in happy 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-platform

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)
_IMETHOD instead. >>> >> >> A better alternative, that exposes standard C++ and macro-hides >> non-standard gunk, would be to use NS_IMETHOD for everything and directly >> use |virtual| in declarations. This point is no justification for changing >> style rule

Re: Is MOZ_SHARK still used?

2015-04-06 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
Is it worth talking to someone from the TenFourFox project (http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/) to see if they have an opinion on this? They may be using Shark still for their debugging and testing processes. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-p

Web APIs documentation meeting Friday at 10 AM PDT

2015-04-02 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
ou're unable to attend but have been working on documentation related to APIs, please add notes to the agenda about what you've been doing so we can share your progress. -- Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter:

Re: Intent to Ship: CSS Scroll Snapping on Desktop

2015-04-01 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______ > 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.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: [meta] "Intent to implement" - captured some docs on wikimo

2015-04-01 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
>>>> Hopefully others find this useful. >>>> >>>> Feedback and as usual, direct edits/contribution to the page welcome >>>> and encouraged. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Tantek >>>> ___ >>&

Re: SpiderMonkey and XPConnect style changing from |T *p| to |T* p|

2015-03-26 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Coding_Style#Declarations > [2] http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#whitespace > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/li

Web APIs documentation meeting Friday

2015-01-29 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
hat you've been doing so we can share your progress. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/WebAPI-docs-2015-01-30 -- Eric Shepherd Sr. Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform maili

Web APIs documentation meeting Friday at 10 AM PST

2015-01-21 Thread Eric Shepherd (Sheppy)
you've been doing so we can share your progress. We look forward to seeing you there! -- Eric Shepherd ​Sr. Technical Writer Mozilla Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platfor

Re: A new way to request developer documentation

2013-02-05 Thread Sheppy
On Saturday, February 2, 2013 6:14:47 AM UTC-5, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Is that replacing dev-doc-needed or is it for documentation bugs filling > only? dev-doc-needed will still be used, but its primary purpose will be to let the docs team know that a doc bug needs to be filed. We have a guide

Documentation prioritization policy

2012-09-06 Thread Sheppy
Due to the exploding amount of documentation work that needs to be done (courtesy of the amazing pace of development work being done, wow!), we're making some key changes to how we will handle prioritizing documentation work. The long and short of it is that we're not going to begin documenting API

Re: MDN Kuma wiki launch Friday at 10 AM PDT

2012-08-03 Thread Sheppy
On Friday, August 3, 2012 12:02:10 AM UTC-4, Benoit Jacob wrote: > The #1 problem for many people with the current MDN wiki was that it didn't > offer mediawiki-compatible markup editing. It would be great to be able to > use right away one's familiarity with mediawiki markup (which is what most

MDN Kuma wiki launch Friday at 10 AM PDT

2012-08-02 Thread Sheppy
That's right! We're finally ready to throw the switch! Tomorrow (that is, Friday, August 3, 2012) we intend to switch from the current MindTouch-based wiki to our new Kuma platform for the Mozilla Developer Network wiki. The changeover should happen at about 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. At t