"Firefox for devs"

[Kevin Dangoor]

Daniel Buchner and I were talking about MDN the other day and we noticed that the front page of MDN does not actually have a useful, discoverable link about things like Firefox's developer tools.

The "Firefox for Devs" image on the front page takes you to a page listing what's new for developers in the latest Firefox. While that's interesting, it seems like we should have a page that aggregates information for web developers who use Firefox. That would include the "what's new in the latest Firefox" page as well as the Tools page.

Does that make sense? Is there already such a page? Are there other resources that we'd want to link to that provide more information for web developers that use Firefox?

Kevin

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[Chris Heilmann]

On 17/04/2012 18:42, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> Daniel Buchner and I were talking about MDN the other day and we noticed that the front page of MDN does not actually have a useful, discoverable link about things like Firefox's developer tools.
>
> The "Firefox for Devs" image on the front page takes you to a page listing what's new for developers in the latest Firefox. While that's interesting, it seems like we should have a page that aggregates information for web developers who use Firefox. That would include the "what's new in the latest Firefox" page as well as the Tools page.
>
> Does that make sense? Is there already such a page? Are there other resources that we'd want to link to that provide more information for web developers that use Firefox?
>
> Kevin
>
>

There is no such page, but I'd love to set it up. Let's do that together.
It would be good to do a brainstorm about what we could put there. Let's
set one up after tomorrow's meeting?

For example I'd like some explanation how to set up a profile switcher
to test different versions of Firefox

[David Bruant]

Or even how to run several version of Firefox at once. I think Anthony
Ricaud (in copy) was planning to write something about that anyway ;-)

David

[Luke Crouch]

Hopefully everyone's planning for this to be a wiki page since it
updates so frequently?

-L

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[Jeff Griffiths]

Specifically, on MDN?

[Luke Crouch]

Seems like a good place, yeah.

I'm most interested in putting it on *any* wiki to save Webdev cycles
and "OMG this dev feature is landing in release tomorrow and we forgot
to put it on the Firefox-for-developers page!!!!" last-minute code
pushes. ;)

-L

[Kevin Dangoor]

I just wanted to revive this thread... I was at MozCamp last weekend, so I
didn't have a chance to say anything else here...

Yeah, I agree that what I'm hoping for is a page on MDN that is a new
"Firefox for Devs" entry point. I set up an etherpad to collect links and
ideas:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox4devs

(let me know if you had already done this in some meeting in the past). Is
there anyone who wants to take on the task of getting the first iteration
of this page up?

Kevin

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[Janet Swisher]

We just happen to be having an MDN doc sprint this weekend (today in
Mountain View, Sat & Sun in SF, plus remote). I added your etherpad link
to the etherpad for the doc sprint
(https://devengage.etherpad.mozilla.org/3). So maybe someone will pick
it up and run with it.

[Jeff Griffiths]

\o/ !!

[vikash agrawal]

hi Everyone,

If you are willing to hear live from the sprint then, we are following
#MDNSprint on twitter :-)

Cheers
Vikash Agrawal

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[Janet Swisher]

And -- Michael Beckwith has picked up the thrown glove, and is starting
with documenting running multiple profiles, for developers.

--Janet

[John Karahalis]

Remember this thread?

I was going through some old emails that require development work on our
end, and thought I should open a bug for this.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773470

Please let us know (ideally in the bug comments) when the article is
written.

On 04/18/2012 11:58 AM, Luke Crouch wrote:
> Seems like a good place, yeah.
>
> I'm most interested in putting it on *any* wiki to save Webdev cycles
> and "OMG this dev feature is landing in release tomorrow and we forgot
> to put it on the Firefox-for-developers page!!!!" last-minute code
> pushes. ;)
>
> -L
>

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