Documentation Taxonomy

Status

It turns out that formulating a single canonical documentation taxonomy is not necessary, as MediaWiki supports nested Categories, and any page can be included in any number of categories or subcategories. Having an initial set of categories could still be useful, if only to give us a starting point.

Purpose

This list exists as an attempt to provide that starting point. It is less critical that it be correct and complete, however, as Categories and Subcategories (and Sub-subcategories...etc) can be added to a MediaWiki at will.

That said, PLEASE feel free to modify, organize, and add to the list below.

You may want to have a look at http://www.mozilla.org/docs/jargon.html

Taxonomy List (rough)

External Standards

CSS 

Cascading Style Sheets.

DHTML 

Dynamic HTML. (I'm not sure this belongs here. DHTML is a marketing buzzword for JS + HTML; there's no 'DHTML standard' - Gerv)

DOM 

"The Document Object Model is an API for HTML and XML documents. It does two things for web developers: it provides a structural representation of the document, and it defines the way that that structure is to be accessed from script, allowing you to get at the web page as a structured group of nodes, which we will discuss shortly. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages."

HTML 

Hypertext Markup Language.

JavaScript 

Scripting language.

RDF 

Resource Description Framework, W3C technology.

Web Standards 

Web standards, best practices, using standards in web development, etc.

SVG 

Scalable Vector Graphics

XML 

Extensible Markup Language.

XSLT 

XSL Transformations language.

Internal

AOM 

Application Object Model.

Gecko 

Browser engine.

Necko (?) 

"The network library (Necko) provides a platform-independent API for several layers of networking ranging from transport to presentation layers. This API is used in the Mozilla client and can be used for writing other networking clients."

NSPR 

"Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system level and libc like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla client, many of Netscape/AOL/iPlanet's and other software offerings."

XBL 

Extensible Binding Language, used in describing bindings that can be attached to elements in other documents.

XPCOM 

Cross Platform Component Object Model.

XPInstall 

Cross Platform Installer (presumably).

XPToolkit 

...

XUL 

XML User Interface Language.

Aspects

Accessibility 

Assistive technologies and related development efforts.

Embedding Mozilla 

Embeddable browser and HTML editor SDK.

Extensions 

Small add-ons for extending the functionality of Mozilla applications.

Internationalization 

 ???

Localisation 

 ???

Mozilla as a Platform 

Developing applications using the Mozilla platform.

Mozilla Hacking 

Developing Mozilla technologies.

Open Source Development 

Open Source development practices and such.

Plugins 

Plugin development docs.

Remote Applications 

Development of remote applications.

Scripting 

General topic, not sure if this belongs on the list.

Security 

Anything and everything related to security technologies in Mozilla.

Testing (QA, etc) 

Docs related to QA, testing, bug reporting, etc.

Themes 

Theme development docs.

Toolkit Apps 

Dev docs related to Firefox, Calendar, Thunderbird.

Tools 

Any documentation related to development tools such as Bugzilla, Bonsai, LXR, etc.

Other Stuff

• Cross References
• Image Handling