If you are a web developer or designer, we can use your input. After gaining some great insights from our previous survey on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5, we have decided to go broader and get a better industry-wide snapshot of web developers.

We have created a new survey in our continued effort to better understand the web developer landscape and how the Mozilla Developer Network can be a better resource within it. Over the past few weeks, we have interviewed web developers about how they work and collaborated with a research consultant to compile a list of questions that will hopefully give us a clearer picture of the people behind the open Web and how we can better serve them.

This survey asks questions about the web development experience: the technologies and resources you use, the communities you join, and the companies that influence the realm of your work. We plan to use your responses to improve our developer engagement efforts and deliver relevant programs and content through the Mozilla Developer Network to make your web development experience better.

Your input is be much appreciated. Take the survey here, and please feel free to share the survey with other web developers and designers. Please pass on this link: http://bit.ly/wdatow2010 to the appropriate lists, forums, blogs, etc.

It is important that the results accurately represent the diverse set of people that make up the web developers of the world, so we hope that you will help us reach other developer communities, including those mentioned in our survey. Together, we can take a step closer to a better open Web. Thanks!

- the MDN team

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  1. Erik wrote on September 14th, 2010 at 3:38 pm:

    Long survey, look forward to the results! In future surveys, try to keep the language a bit simpler for us non-native speakers! Cheers!

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  2. Felix Pleșoianu wrote on September 14th, 2010 at 11:30 pm:

    Nice survey, but way too much emphasis on “developer communities”. Maybe we should form a community of communities to discuss discussing Web development. OR, we could just get to work and build some neat stuff. How does that sound? :)

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    1. Jay wrote on September 16th, 2010 at 8:35 am:

      Felix: Without developer communities, most web developers wouldn’t be able to find what they need to build neat stuff. And even if there is good documentation, people will always have questions and the community will almost always have good answers. ;-) Maybe communities of communities will give us better answers?

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  3. David Bruant wrote on September 16th, 2010 at 2:11 am:

    As a French user, the survey was localized and translated in French for me.
    I’ve naturally answered in French. Were you expecting answers in English?

    Can you do a post update to mention something about that?
    Tell what you prefer (answers in English or if you don’t care).

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  4. Jay wrote on September 16th, 2010 at 8:33 am:

    David: We will be able to combine the data from all languages and will report in English first, but hope to have the results translated as well. For the open-ended questions, English would obviously be easier for us, but we hope to get help translating the non-English feedback and will pull out the interesting bigs for the final report. ;-)

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    1. David Bruant wrote on September 16th, 2010 at 8:42 am:

      I’d be happy to help translating French into English

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  5. Style Thing wrote on September 16th, 2010 at 3:47 pm:

    Veery long survey with many usefull questions…
    (sorry for that, but it is)

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  6. dalmate wrote on September 17th, 2010 at 9:49 pm:

    Good survey. I focused into the updating and upgrading of the browsers. Each updating or upgrading we must fix the compatibility of our web with them again and again. It’s not good and taking us too much time.

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  7. Jdude wrote on October 18th, 2010 at 10:37 pm:

    Ahh! I missed the survey! oh well, as a webmaster and sometimes designer… Im pretty satisfied at how I can preview my designs in FF. Unlike those other guys at MS who need to have .. well, lets just say keep up the great work!

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