686415 - Add ability to view DOM API and CSS documentation on MDN through context-menus

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Source Editor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

When using the Developer Tools, users should be able to right-click on a DOM API (through the Scratchpad or other JS-friendly tools) to and choose an option that takes them to the MDN documentation for the relevant API call.

Further, the user should be able to achieve the same convenience if they right-click on a CSS property using Style Doctor (or some other CSS-friendly tool).

Comment 1

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

This is already a feature of the style inspector but I don't see any reason not to do it in any other tools ... maybe we should centralize this help feature?

Comment 2

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

Heck, even selecting a "word" and hitting the F1 key to bring up a link from the Scratchpad or Style Editor. This is still a nice-to-have feature. Filing this in SourceEditor for now.

Comment 3

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

I would like to work on this over my winter break (begins next wednesday). Assigning this to myself in the meantime as an early holiday present.

Comment 4

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

Gonna put this on hold to work on a source outline view. Unassigning myself.

Comment 5

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Kawry, did you want to ask something about this?

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Clear a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user.

Inactive users most likely will not respond; if the missing information is essential and cannot be collected another way, the bug maybe should be closed as INCOMPLETE.

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