Fw: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-23 Thread Jim Mathies
-Original Message- From: Eric Shepherd Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:04 PM Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.mdc,mozilla.dev.platform To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Subject: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions Currently, the JavaScript reference content for the global classes (St

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-23 Thread Neil
Eric Shepherd wrote: Currently, the JavaScript reference content for the global classes (String, Array, etc), are divided up such that the class methods and properties and the prototype methods and properties are documented separately Function doesn't appear to be divided, while Object appea

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
On Apr 22, 2013, at 17:39 , Jeff Walden wrote: > On 04/22/2013 04:34 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: >> 3) Related to that, some properties are documented as part of the wrong >> object. For example, the String.prototype documentation shows a length >> property. String.prototype doesn't have this

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Jeff Walden
On 04/22/2013 04:34 PM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: > 3) Related to that, some properties are documented as part of the wrong > object. For example, the String.prototype documentation shows a length > property. String.prototype doesn't have this property; String instances do. String.prototype is a

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Norbert Lindenberg
It seems there are several distinct problems: 1) The page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String right now doesn't show the methods that String instances inherit from String.prototype. This is most likely a symptom of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla

Re: JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Schuster
I agree, it is also super tedious to set up and update. You always have to remember to go to /prototype and sometimes you need to clear the caching of the pages that include it. I think some these pages sometimes have extra information that is not included in the main page, but I doubt many people

JavaScript reference changes: looking for opinions

2013-04-22 Thread Eric Shepherd
Currently, the JavaScript reference content for the global classes (String, Array, etc), are divided up such that the class methods and properties and the prototype methods and properties are documented separately, with links between them. For example, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/