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I mostly spent today twiddling documentation I wrote over the course of the week.  Little fixes as suggestions come in, a few organizational corrections, that kind of thing.  It was a great week of work, and I’m really pleased.

There are some moderately significant corrections remaining to be made in the media queries documentation; I plan to work on that tomorrow.

I’ve been getting fantastic feedback, which I really appreciate.  I’m sure there’ll be plenty more!

I’ve posted the article “Using geolocation“, which provides introductory information on using the new geolocation API being introduced in Firefox 3.1.  I’ll be adding a working example tomorrow (later today, actually, now that I look at my clock and see it’s already Friday).  I’ve also not yet documented the interfaces behind geolocation, but I’ll be doing those tomorrow.

As always, if you happen to notice any errors, please feel free to correct them or let me know what needs fixing so I can do it.

Enjoy!

Since video and audio have such similar syntax, once I got audio documented, the documentation for video came together really fast.  Enjoy!

I’ve just completed documentation for the HTML 5 audio element.  This is pretty nifty stuff; I’ll be working on the video element tonight and tomorrow morning.  I’m waiting for email back in response to a couple of questions (it’s possible I may have documented some attributes we don’t yet support), and I’m sure I’ll be updating the content in the next day or two.

Also, I wrote an example which doesn’t work yet — I think because the MDC server doesn’t currently serve up .ogg files with the correct MIME type; I’ve filed a ticket to address that.

I’ve just completed the documentation for CSS media queries.  This is a very, very nifty capability that lets you select different style sheets based on very precise criteria.  For example, you can use different style sheets on standard versus widescreen displays, or based on the dimensions of the browser window, or whether the screen is 24-bit color or monochrome.

This is very exciting stuff, and hopefully the documentation will be helpful!

The documentation for CSS transforms in Firefox 3.1 is now more or less complete.  Both the -moz-transform and -moz-transform-origin properties have been documented, and there’s also documentation for the CSS transform functions.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to edit and add more examples!