Closed Bug 116277 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Document workaround for XML data islands

Categories

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Product:
Documentation Graveyard
Component:
Web Developer
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: hjtoi-bugzilla, Assigned: thad.hoffman)

Details

Show how XMLHttpRequest can be used to simulate XML data islands in HTML. Should probably be a subsection in XMLExtras web page.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Heikki, what's the URL for the XMLExtras page? Thanks. We should talk about whether my group can help you out here (or with any other doc needs).
XMLExtras: http://www.mozilla.org/xmlextras/ On second thought, this would probably be best on the Evangelism site, Cc Bob Clary as well. I can easily link to the documentation from anywhere I want...
Heikki, We can promote mozilla.org documentation from our evangelism site and already do so with the Gecko DOM reference, etc. Or we can host general articles has well. Our audience would probably require a more 'user friendly' approach in terms of how the material is presented. Also, we need to get Mozilla on more user's radar before they will consider non-netscape branded material to be relevant. Perhaps an general interest article concerning the use of XMLExtras in Netscape 6 could be deployed on the evangelism site with the more technical, Mozilla specific content hosted on mozilla.org. We will catch their interest using Netscape 6 but promote the main material on mozilla.org. /bc
I seem to remember there is a document describing how to simulate LAYER in Netscape 6 (can't find it now). Would it be a good place to put this documentation in the same place?
http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/api/ We could place the API documentation there if you wish. I currently use DOCBOOK and refentry for most of our API docs. We could deploy a more user friendly article at http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/. We are planning a complete reorg of DevEdge in the future (if we can ever get the resources!), so this organization should be considered as temporary.
I am currently doing this and Heikki asked that I document the steps. What format is preferred? Text, html, word doc, etc.
It depends on where this is going. HTML is preferred I think regardless of the hosting situation. If it goes on DevEdge/evangelism I will add the necessary template related foobar.
Thad, I'd be happy to offer any assistance I can (polishing up or whatever) when you get this written up.
Ellen, Thank you for the offer I'll take you up on that. :-) I plan on writing up a rough draft this weekend. I have examples of a near direct mimic of MS's data islands and then a better cross browser version that we are using. I'd love to get feedback from the dev team on it too.
Sounds good. Others can certainly comment with more authority on the technical details, but I'm happy to offer whatever doc-ing sorts of help I can.
Assigning to Thad since he is working on this.
Assignee: heikki → thad.hoffman
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
It seems as though I had dropped off the planet on this, but I actually have been working on this, then real work got in my way, but now I have some stand alone samples (since my stuff relies on an appserver) and whatnot. Anyway, I have some rough samples and explanations ready, where should I put them/send them? Thad
If you can attach them here it would be great. I am sure they can be moved to devedge or where ever once they look good enough.
I'll be happy to look at whatever you have, Thad.
Thad sent us his docs in the summer but we were slow to process them, apologies. I've uplodaded Thad's document and samples on mozilla.org. They should show up in about an hour or so in here (there will be a link from xmlextras main page as well): http://www.mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmldataislands/ Thanks Thad! Closing this bug as fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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