1632313 - Document XPIDL and how to get started

Status: NEW

(Core :: XPCOM, task)

Description

[Marcos Caceres [:marcosc]]

The XPIDL documentation is extremely limited, lacks examples, and gives no guidance of how to get started... making it next to useless. What is needed is:

1. how to get started in C++.
2. actual simple examples to follow.
3. rationale for using XPIDL over WebIDL.
4. Fix all the broken links - get rid of all the old stuff from the early 2000s if it's no longer relevant.
5. Modernize the Syntax - ABNF is very unhelpful. Let's find a better way to document it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPIDL