989063 - Create an MDN content module for Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Bug 768456 got us a quick search API. We [1] developed a GCLI command [2] and a tooltip [3] based on this.

There is a question of whether we should be thinking of dynamically fetching this stuff, or we should be including it in developer-tools. Things to think about:

* Vandalism. It's one thing getting obscenities from visiting a vandalized wiki, but having Firefox abuse you in a tooltip is different. If we're allowing downloaded content that we'll have to make it opt-in.

* L10N. The MDN CSS documentation is in EN, JP and FR, but other languages are extremely patchy. Many locales just accept that EN is that way to go here.

* Off-line usage, slow networks, etc. It's going to be really handy to have the content downloaded already.

* Download size. How much are we adding to Firefox with the content that we include?

* Vetting resource. We could have a process by which we vet content and have a "known-good" version, but this seems complex and takes significant on-going time.


I am of the opinion that the least bad of the available options is preference that says "I understand that help comes from a wiki, and could offend, give me popups".


[1]: Mostly Will Bamberg, but also me.
[2]: Details in bug 769572.
[3]: Will is there a link to this handy?

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

This is the tooltip link: https://github.com/wbamberg/devtools-mdn-tooltips

Comment 2

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

We already have MDN content in devtools.