what about an about:demo or about:features? Think advertising - for a 'storefront' - show off all the Mozilla coolness here for the few and new who want to see what Mozilla is capable of.

henrik, this is doable but someone needs to write the html/css/js for the page that you want to load. Maybe you can excercise mozilla's features and post the sources at which point i could hook it up for you.

I think, this is a good idea. <about:feature> could show a summary of "best" features. <about:feature/-area-> (e.g. <about:feature/mailnews/viewer/html> or <about:feature/core/chrome/skin>) could list features of a certain area. Until here, HTML should be sufficient (assuming the protocol handler is hooked up). Feature "leafs" (feature "primitives") could link to an animated or even interactive demo. This part is probaly a lot of work. verah, are you likely to implement at least the first part? If not, can you add a helpwanted keyword?

Sorry, I can't do this at present. I could provide a list of features we might want to highlight, and some text, if someone else could author this. Adding the helpwanted keyword.

Updating QA Contact to elig...welcome back!

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spam: mass-moving currently open help bugs to Terri, who now does qa on 'em. :)

Hey, I know -- let's include a Quake clone written in XUL.

verah@netscape.com: Can you please upload your list as an attachment to the bug. I may be interested in working on this.

Oh good! I'll create the list/descriptions as soon as possible. Probably Tuesday 12/5. When I've got that I'll reassign to Zach.

cool. I can't do anything too hard, but I can sure try!

Here we go... sorry for the delay; I've been sick as a dog. I'm attaching documents that sort of outline/describe four "about..." demos that I think would be good. I'm suggesting the following: About Mozilla's End User Features (you'd probably want a different title) About My Sidebar (for developers -- who want to create tabs) About Themes (for people who want to create themes) About Standards Support There may be more possibilities, or better possibilities, but these are the ones that come to my mind. I've provided some text (and three gifs), but these are naturally Netscape-centric seeing as how I've been writing Netscape stuff for the past three years! However, I'm hopeful that the examples will help you write text appropriate for Mozilla. You might want to look at the "What's New in Netscape 6" piece, which is a tour of features. It's not really a demo, in that the reader is not led through a series of steps and there's nothing animated or anything fancy like that. Reassigning to Zach. Good luck!

accepting bug. The first thing that comes to mind for me is how to animate stuff. I was thinking flash, except I don't have flash and flash doesn't come with mozilla. I can't export director as shockwave or java applets because mozilla doesn't come with shockwave or java by standard. This leaves animated gifs. Does anyone have any better ideas?

JavaScript and the DOM? That would demonstrate our cool standard support at the same time for those who care...

DUH! Time to play with dreamweaver timelines and make them work in mozilla.

Faking it using Mozilla keywords! http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html Create a bookmark as normal to whatever it is you want Then go to bookmark properties set the keyword to about:demo or about:features or about:whateveryoulike Now if you type about:demo in the location bar mozilla will automagically follow your link.

There isn't much need to fake it with keywords because we can just hook it right into the browser. The problem is getting the demo site. Once we have the site ready, hooking it up is no problem. I'm still not sure exactly when I plan to have this done, but It's higher on my list than before.

how about bug 170240?

about:feature would be better served by bug 103608 about:demo might be better served by bug 170240 and some of the stuff mentioned could go into Mozilla Help files

Graphical version of what demo could be

how-to-make-a-skin is overkill to be put in the Help files

What you show is more like a tutorial. I thought a demo where something which doesn't teach, but just shows some cool things. I guess that would stress the Gecko renderer, then, rather than the UI. Like that 3D cube (lost the URL), something like netcenter's news boxes, but implemented on the client side and with tabs, some cool resizable SVG, a webpage how it *should* look like ;) etc..

s/where/were oh, and if you make a tutorial, instead of showing screenshots, why not mark the real UI elements with a red (blinking?) flame, like the DOM inspector does?

Ben, you are right. Perhaps all the attachments could go into about:features (or bug 103608, or bug 170240)?

about:abandoned? Or is there work still going on on this?

Is this really wanted yet? Some features explained in the attachments sample files are not available any longer, others are now common in most browsers...

It's dead Jim. =>WONTFIX.