Firefox/Windows 8 Metro Style Guides

Nota Bene

• this a spot to jot down guidelines of varying types, largely for front end developers & designers. This includes code style, theming style, and whatever else will help us produce a consistent, shiny produce faster. If you have questions about this page, please ping :ally in #windev.

Design/Theming guidelines

• use flyout panes over dialogs

Coding Guidelines

• Generally we use Mozilla Coding Style, with a few exceptions:
• You don't need to wrap lines to 80 characters. Use longer lines (up to around 120 characters; use your judgement) if it improves readability.
• Consistency is king, and supersedes any particular rule.

JS

• else in if/else pairings are double cuddled ( eg } else {

CSS

• if you create an attribute and it has only one value, do not set it to true/false. Remove the attribute in the case of false. This produces cleaner, more concise css, without imperiling js readability.

helpful references

• yuan's list of design links: https://kippt.com/yuan/designing-for-windows-8
• general coding guidelines for mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Coding_Style