234710 - Web-Developer samples need to be more accessible

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/ should show a listing of the
samples, not a forbidden message.

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/examples/* should be symlinked (or
redirected or whatever) to http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/*
since it is oft-used on older links that haven't been (or can't be) updated.

Comment 1

[Robert Mohr]

There is only one item in the
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/> folder
(<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/kitchensink.xml>), and the
forbidden error is that Apache isn't configured to give you a directory listing
when there's no index.html.

Where is this page linked from?

Comment 2

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

> Where is this page linked from?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mozilla+kitchensink&btnG=Google+Search

Kitchen sink is a javascript/DOM sample. I thought there would be more in that
directory but I couldn't find links to any samples on the page
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/

Kitchen sink: bug 122411

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Mozillazine has a link to "examples" not "samples"
http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2919

And slashdot links to the Mozillazine article
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/22/1420228.shtml?tid=154

>and the
>forbidden error is that Apache isn't configured to give you a directory listing
>when there's no index.html.

Yes, I know that

Are there other examples, and could we centralize them and have them all
accessible from a http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/index.html
web page with http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/examples/ linked to it
and turn on FollowSymlinks for this one directory?

Comment 4

[Robert Mohr]

I don't know if symlinks or HTTP redirection is the way to go, but I don't think
I can set up either anyway (well, maybe symlinks).

Also, another sample/example would be <http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/>.

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

there is no index.html because there is only one sample
I checked the cvs and see no example directory, so it's MZ who should change

Comment 6

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

What happened to the other HTML samples and such? Wasn't example/ the old name?

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

> What happened to the other HTML samples and such? Wasn't example/ the old name?

http://www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=07%2F26%2F2003+14%3A20&maxdate=07%2F26%2F2003+14%3A40&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot
old dir is catalog/web-developer/examples/kitchensink.xml
new dir is docs/web-developer/samples/kitchensink.xml

Comment 8

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I found more of the samples:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/samples/
http://www.mozilla.org/wallet/samples/
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/samples/dynatable-light/

I guess these are considered samples for seperate components and the Kitchen
Sink is the only 1 web-developer sample. My mistake.

The links for /examples are all more than a 6 months old, and I had mistakenly
thought all the samples I had seen long ago were in the same place.

It would be nice if we did have a samples/ root directory where dom, wallet, etc
would appear with http://www.mozilla.org/samples as its parent. Such as
samples/dom, samples/web-developer, etc.