Re: A call for better MDN documentation

On 02/15/2014 02:44 AM, Oliver Propst wrote:
> Hi,
> Necko are obviously very central to Mozilla, yet the documentation on MDN
> are very outdated (with links to 10 year old presentations) or missing [1,
> 2, 3].
>
> Although I'm not a hacker/developer myself I still find the technical
> details of Necko very interesting (I don't think you should have to dig
> into the source code to get that information).
>
> I'm sure the team would have very much to win both in terms of getting new
> contributors and raise the general interest if there existed proper updated
> documentation about Necko on MDN.
>
> I could see this a potential topic on the upcoming workweek in Paris.
>
> 1 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Necko
> 2 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Building_Necko_standalone
> 3 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Necko_Architecture

Yes, we could definitely use better introductions to necko's 
architecture.  The ones that exist are actually still useful, but they 
are very old and so miss many things.

Jason