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A few weeks ago, we launched a new survey for Web developers. We wanted to learn more about what you are interested in to build the Mozilla Developer Network tailored to your needs.

Thanks to your help in spreading the word about the survey, we surpassed our goal of 5,000 responses!  The survey is now closed and we’re processing the data. We’ll post results here on the hacks blog and tweet about them on @mozhacks in the next few weeks.

Given the positive feedback about this initiative, we’re planning to repeat the survey on a regular basis to show trends in the Web developer world over time. For example: what tools and technologies are most popular at a give time around the world? The next iteration should be coming in a few months, and we’ll ask for your help again to make sure the participation is as broad as possible.

Thanks for joining this effort, and stay tuned for the results!

Two weeks ago we announced the launch of the Mozilla Developer Network. We also asked for your help through this short survey for Web developers. The questions were meant to understand who you are, what you’re interested in, and what resources would be most useful to you on MDN. We’re happy to report that we have received over 3,600 responses so far, so thank you!

Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Data:

HTML/CSS/Javascript are the winning combination, PHP is a close 4th. After that, technology choices are quite fragmented.

The most popular tools for development are a collection of Firefox add-ons, including Firebug and Web developer, and… text editors! Each developer has a favorite, from vi or emacs to TextMate or Notepad++.

Either Web developers live mostly in the US and in France, or this is where the most active Mozilla developer outreach is happening. We think it’s the latter, for France we call it the “Paul and Tristan effect”!

What Are We Missing?

Please help us get more responses from around the world so we can understand the needs of Web developers everywhere.

We would also love to get more participants who are working in corporate environments, especially on intranets. And we’d like to hear more from those of you who are working (willingly or not) with proprietary technologies.

How Can You Help?

We’d like to get 5,000 responses before we close the survey, so help us spread the word to other Web developers: tweet about it and send the survey link to your friends!

Once we have enough responses, we’ll publish the results on this blog. You can also follow the latest Mozilla Developer Network updates on Twitter at @mozhacks.

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At Mozilla we’ve been talking recently about how important the web has become to everything around us. The web – and the Internet it’s built on – has become the defining computing platform for this century. And most of that has happened because of web developers, and the freedom they have enjoyed.

Firefox is one of the most important tools for web developers. Firebug combined with Firefox’s strong support for standards means that most web developers are building for Firefox first and then porting to other browsers later.

But even with developers using Firefox for development there hasn’t been an easy way for those of us at the Mozilla project to let you know about what’s going on at Mozilla – what we’re putting in Firefox, what we’re doing to bring the web forward and what we’re doing for web developers. (Although the hacks weblog is the first attempt at that.) And conversely there isn’t an obvious way for individual web developers to give Mozilla structured feedback about what’s important to them or what issues they might be having.

That’s why we’re working on the Mozilla Developer Network. It will serve two purposes:

1. To provide you with information about what’s going on at Mozilla and around the web.
2. To give you the chance to give us structured feedback and become part of the Mozilla Community.

Our first step is to do a quick survey. If we can get 5,000 responses to the survey, we’ll release the aggregate results.

The survey itself asks you about how you work, what you think of Firefox and should only take a few minutes to complete.

Thanks! We’ll have more on the Mozilla Developer Network as things progress.