1244121 - Long lists of empty bullet points in Plugin API reference

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Add-ons, defect, P5)

Description

[Philip Jägenstedt [:foolip]]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

The HTML spec references https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Guide, but since the link was added, the page has changed and broken.

Right after the "Plug-in Side Plug-in API" there is a long list of empty bullet points, and also later. This seems to be because the macro/method Npapi and possibly others doesn't work, but I can't figure out where that's defined.

Context: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/573

Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

nsapi is defined at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Template:npapi, and hasn't changed in a few years. It is used on a few other pages, which also output blank strings when force-refreshed.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I've made a stop-gap fix that works on this page.

I need to revisit it to make it work on translated pages and also to understand why it suddenly broke. Keeping this open so that I have it on my radar.

Comment 3

[Philip Jägenstedt [:foolip]]

Thanks, that fixes the first broken list. Unfortunately, there are two more in the "Scripting plugins" section that are still empty bullets.

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Arrrrg. 2 macros for the same behaviour. Temp-fixed too. Sorry not to have catched up.
(Just when my train is getting on the platform :-) )

Comment 5

[Philip Jägenstedt [:foolip]]

Thanks for fixing this!

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Seems like it must be a behavior change related to redirects to me.

Comment 7

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

{{xref}} assume that urls have /docs/ in their slug. Which is not the case with zones.

I now fixed the macros for l10n too.