MDN/Feedback/July 5, 2012 Release

Getting started

Before testing, take a moment to get set up. This should not take very long, even for a beginner.

1. Create an account on Bugzilla, the bug-reporting website used by Mozilla.
   • Visit the new account page.
   • Enter your email address in the bottom-right corner.
   • Confirm your email address.
2. Join the discussion on IRC (optional)
   • Choose an IRC client. The Mozilla Wiki lists some popular options.
   • Connect to the Mozilla IRC server.
   • Join the room #mdn. This room does not require a password.

Testing

What are you interested in? Choose one or more of the topics below, work through the steps, and submit a bug for any issue or frustration you encounter. No bug report is too small. Remember that if something bothers you, you're probably not the only one who feels that way.

Reading

• Open the Where is Mozilla? page and click the two links in the main paragraph ("send us an email" and "let us know"). Does this open a new email window? Is this what you expected to happen?
• Open the All Articles page and take a look at the numbered navigation links at the bottom. Do you like the way this looks? Does navigation work the way you expect?
• Load the revision history of the HTML5 article. Can you get back to the main article from here?
• Open the HTML5 article and place your mouse over a link for a second or two. Does something pop up above your mouse? Is this what you expected to see?
• Open the Canvas article. Is the title of the article lined up with the main text of the article? Do you like the way this looks?
• Load this article and notice the "Redirected from..." message. Do you like the way this looks?
• Browse around the future MDN...
  • Does everything seem to work?
  • Are you able to do the same things that you can do on the current MDN website?
  • Is any content from the current MDN website missing?
  • Is the site understandable and easy to use?

Remember to submit a bug for any issue or frustration you encountered.

Localization

• Visit the future MDN, select a locale, and try to find a page that has not been translated into that locale yet. If you can't find one, try this example. The English version should be loaded as a fallback. Was it? Is this what you expected to happen?
• Try translating a page.
  • Were you able to easily discover how to do this?
  • Does everything seem to work?
  • Are you able to do the same things that you can do on the current MDN website?
  • Is the localization interface understandable and easy to use?

Remember to submit a bug for any issue or frustration you encountered.

Writing templates

Help us convert some of our old templates to KumaScript, the template language used by the new MDN website.

• Does everything seem to work?
• Does KumaScript have all of the features that you need?
• If you have used the old template language: are you able to do the same things in KumaScript that you could do in the old language?
• Are templates easy to write?
• Is the template authoring interface understandable and easy to use?

Remember to submit a bug for any issue or frustration you encountered.

Editing

For the first set of tests, be sure to use the development website. Note that this is a sandbox. You can create and edit pages here, but most of the MDN content you are familiar will not be present. You will need to create an account on this site, since no accounts have been ported over from the current MDN website.

• Open this edit example editing page and...
  • Take a look at the buttons of the WYSIWYG. Do you understand what these buttons do? Do you like the way they're organized?
  • Try to create a link to another article.
  • Play around with the different styles in the Styles dropdown box.
  • Try using the syntax highlighter on some code.
  • Try to add a sortable table. Are you able to do this?
  • Try using these keyboard shortcuts. Do the shortcuts work? Do you like these shortcuts?
  • Try adding some tags to the article.
  • Try adding a tag that includes a space.
  • Try to add a slash to the slug. You should be prevented from doing this. Are you?
  • Try adding tags, saving the page, deleting tags, and then saving the page again. Notice any problems?
• Open this example article and...
  • Try to delete an old version of the article.
  • Try editing one particular section of the article? Are you able to do this? Try again in different browsers? Any problems?

Remember to submit a bug for any issue or frustration you encountered.

Something else

Browse around the development website. Test some things that we never even thought to consider. Try to break the website. The world is your oyster.

Thanks!

In just a short amount of time, you have made the MDN better for users everywhere. This is no small accomplishment. Thank you.

Appendix

New features in this release

• Bug 770066: You can include spaces in tags.
• Bug 767984: The <h#> indicators no longer appear in the WYSIWYG.
• Bug 766356: Section editing now works in Chrome, Opera, and Safari.
• Bug 758377: Tags are no longer duplicated after being changed.
• Bug 766608: The links on Where is Mozilla? now drop the user into an email client.
• Bug 764944: HTML entities no longer appear in WYSIWYG link search results.
• Bug 765649: Edits now always take effect immediately.
• Bug 767718: WYSIWYG style dropdown now includes "None", "Note box", "Warning box", "Callout box", "Plaintext (nowiki)", "Two columns", and "Three columns".
• Bug 764571: Pagination now looks better. An example can be seen here.
• Bug 768859: Question mark in syntax highlighter (and associated "About SyntaxHighlighter" box) no longer appears.
• Bug 766658: WYSIWYG buttons have been changed and reorganized.
• Bug 768492: Admins can now edit site-wide CSS (with a temporary solution).
• Bug 767533: You can now get back to the main article from the revision pages.
• Bug 766736: Tables can now be sorted.
• Bug 767526: You can now hover over any link to see the wiki path that it points to.
• Bug 719668: If a user visits a page that is not translated, the English version is loaded.
• Bug 765634: Revisions can now be deleted.
• Bug 767035: Mindtouch keyboard shortcuts can now be used in Kuma.
• Bug 768857: H1 header now aligned with main content.
• Bug 769559: "Redirected from..." message is now less intrusive.
• Bug 764426: Slashes can no longer be used in the slugs of new pages.