Comments on: Did you know we have a style guide? http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/388 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ehsan Akhgari http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/388/comment-page-1#comment-4369 Ehsan Akhgari Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:30:56 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=388#comment-4369 <strong>Making sense of Firefox startup time...</strong> One of the things that we at Mozilla would like to do better at is the amount of time it takes between when you launch Firefox, and when it starts up and is usable.  We've been tackling this problem for quite a while, and have already made tremen... Making sense of Firefox startup time…

One of the things that we at Mozilla would like to do better at is the amount of time it takes between when you launch Firefox, and when it starts up and is usable.  We’ve been tackling this problem for quite a while, and have already made tremen…

]]> By: Wladimir Palant http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/388/comment-page-1#comment-4264 Wladimir Palant Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:45:29 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=388#comment-4264 Ah, right, there is a style guide. I remember seeing it around the time I started with Mozilla. Then I learned the simple rule "just follow the style of the file your are changing" and forgot about it... Ah, right, there is a style guide. I remember seeing it around the time I started with Mozilla. Then I learned the simple rule “just follow the style of the file your are changing” and forgot about it…

]]> By: Shawn Wilsher http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/388/comment-page-1#comment-4258 Shawn Wilsher Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:07:20 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=388#comment-4258 I honestly don't know the reasoning there. You'd have to ask in <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/topics" rel="nofollow">mozilla.dev.platform</a>. I honestly don’t know the reasoning there. You’d have to ask in mozilla.dev.platform.

]]> By: Jan! http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/388/comment-page-1#comment-4256 Jan! Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:54:24 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=388#comment-4256 From the JavaScript section: "Use \uXXXX unicode escapes for non-ASCII characters. The character set for XUL, DTD, script, and properties files is UTF-8 which is not easily readable." That has me confused. Are you (as in: Mozilla) really claiming hexadecimal references to Unicode code points are more readable than the actual characters they represent? From the JavaScript section:
“Use \uXXXX unicode escapes for non-ASCII characters. The character set for XUL, DTD, script, and properties files is UTF-8 which is not easily readable.”

That has me confused. Are you (as in: Mozilla) really claiming hexadecimal references to Unicode code points are more readable than the actual characters they represent?

]]> By: Mossop http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/388/comment-page-1#comment-4253 Mossop Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:01:58 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=388#comment-4253 When do we get the lint or JSHydra or whatever tool to automatically tell us the errors? When do we get the lint or JSHydra or whatever tool to automatically tell us the errors?

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