{"id":393,"date":"2008-12-19T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/?p=393"},"modified":"2008-12-19T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:50:44","slug":"you-can-now-update-the-knowledge-base-for-firefox-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2008\/12\/19\/you-can-now-update-the-knowledge-base-for-firefox-31\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now update the Knowledge Base for Firefox 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Firefox Support Knowledge Base, we use a great feature called\u00a0 &#8220;SHOWFOR&#8221; that allows articles to display different content, depending on the users&#8217; operating system and version of Firefox. When it comes to<br \/>\nversion numbers, we have only been able to differentiate between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 content. Now I am pleased to announce that we can now differentiate between Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.1!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/files\/2008\/12\/showfor31.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-394\" title=\"showfor31\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/files\/2008\/12\/showfor31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What this means is that now we can start updating current articles with Firefox 3.1 content!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated our contributor reference on <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/Using+SHOWFOR?bl=n\">how to use SHOWFOR<\/a>. Content currently tagged with {SHOWFOR(browser=firefox3)} is now displayed for both Firefox 3.0 and 3.1 users. To tag content as specific to 3.1, use {SHOWFOR(browser=firefox3.1)}. To tag content as specific to 3.0, use {SHOWFOR(browser=firefox3.0)}.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR(browser=firefox3)}<\/pre>\n<pre>This content would display for 3.1 and 3.0 users, but not Firefox 2 users.<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR}<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR(browser=firefox3.1)}<\/pre>\n<pre>This content would display for Firefox 3.1 users only.<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR}<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR(browser=firefox3.0)}<\/pre>\n<pre>This content would display for Firefox 3.0.x users only.<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR}<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR(browser=firefox2)}<\/pre>\n<pre>This content would display for Firefox 2 users only.<\/pre>\n<pre>{SHOWFOR}<\/pre>\n<h2>So what content needs updating?<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been keeping track of user-end changes in Firefox 3.1 using a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Support\/Firefox3.1:Changes\">page on wiki.mozilla.org<\/a>, then tracking which articles need updating using a <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/Updating+articles+for+Firefox+31?bl=n\">page on support.mozilla.com<\/a>. Remember that Firefox 3.1 is still in development, so the list of changes is still likely to grow; and if you notice a user-end change in Firefox 3.1 that is not in those pages, you can update them.<\/p>\n<h2>What about screenshots?<\/h2>\n<p>The Firefox 3.1 user-interface is not final either; and it is too easy to include a screenshot that contains UI that will be different when Firefox 3.1 is released. <strong>Do not add Firefox 3.1 screenshots for now<\/strong>.<br \/>\nI do not expect to have clearance for this until there is a release candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Let the updating begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Firefox Support Knowledge Base, we use a great feature called\u00a0 &#8220;SHOWFOR&#8221; that allows articles to display different content, depending on the users&#8217; operating system and version of Firefox. &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2008\/12\/19\/you-can-now-update-the-knowledge-base-for-firefox-31\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}