230273 - Need complete reference for userChrome.css and userContent.css

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, defect, P5)

Description

[David Trusty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1

Documentation for all elements in userChrome.css and userContent.css is needed.

The web page at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html is a good start,
but a complete reference of all elements and fields within is needed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Search for reference on userChrome.css
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Found only examples of selected settings

Expected Results:  
Should easily find a reference of all user customizations.

Making it easier for users to know how to customize their look-and-feel will
greatly improve acceptance of the product.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

-> nobody

this job is probably too big for anyone

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

Something for devmo?

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

> Something for devmo?
definitely not. This would be more of an advanced user doc

Comment 4

[David Boswell]

The www.mozilla.org site should no longer host documentation.  If there is still a need for this it should be added to MDC or SUMO.  Moving to Mozilla Developer Center product for discussion.

Comment 5

[Kevin Ernst]

I can help with this. I've been referring to "customizing.html" for years, so I feel like I have some stake in its future. It still ranks prominently in search results (e.g., for "userChrome.css"), indicating to me that there are strong, persistent backlinks to this resource, and that it should be preserved with a 301 redirect (ref. bug #726070) to a "living" document elsewhere within *.mozilla.org

I plan to pull together the useful bits of http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html, plus parts of the mozillaZine "userChrome.css" article (provided compatible licenses, which I haven't verified) to create at least a stub for a "canonical" userChrome.css article on the MDN wiki.

Once that's to the point where it can serve as a functioning replacement for "customizing.html", I plan to request 301 redirect(s) in bug #308518, if that seems okay to everyone.

Comment 6

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Has this been completed? Please reopen if not.

Comment 7

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Reopening for review by Sheppy.

Comment 8

[Mr. Meval]

I would help but I cannot understand the code well enough to even try. :/ How about putting a donation button on your web page?

Comment 9

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This isn't done yet but someone really ought to work on it. That said, it's low priority, and pretty much a moving target.

Comment 10

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

This is no more in the scope of MDN