MDN Articles
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Introducing the MDN Web Docs Front-end developer learning pathway
The MDN Web Docs Learning Area teaches fundamentals of modern web development, beginning with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript essentials. In feedback this year, readers asked for a more opinionated, structured approach. They asked for coverage of client-side tooling, frameworks, transformation tools, and deployment tools widely used in today's workplace. Meet the Front-end developer learning pathway from MDN.
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The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face
Last summer the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) underwent a massive platform change, moving from a hosted third-party solution to our own custom Django application code-named Kuma. That move laid the ground work for our latest major MDN upgrade: a complete front-end redesign, included many new features as well as usability and accessibility enhancements. Let me […]
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MDN Web Docs evolves! Lowdown on the upcoming new platform
The time has come for Kuma — the platform that powers MDN Web Docs — to evolve. For quite some time now, the MDN developer team has been planning a radical platform change, and we are ready to start sharing the details of it. The question on your lips might be “What does a Kuma evolve into? A KumaMaMa?”
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help build the mozilla developer network
Help us build the Mozilla Developer Network Take the survey now. 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 […]
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Hacks v2.0
As you may have noticed, Hacks looks a bit different today. That’s because we’ve completely redesigned the site. We wanted to make it easier for everyone to not only enjoy the new content we publish, but also to find past articles and demos. With Firefox 3.6 just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to […]
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Bringing interactive examples to MDN
Over the last year and a bit, the MDN Web Docs team has been designing, building, and implementing interactive examples for our reference pages. The motivation was to do more on MDN for people who like to learn by seeing and playing around with example code. We've just finished adding interactive examples for the JavaScript and CSS reference pages. This post looks back at the project to see how we got here and what we learned on the way.
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Announcing the MDN Fellowship Program
For nearly a decade, the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has been a vital source of technical information for millions of web and mobile developers. And while each month hundreds of developers actively contribute to MDN, we know there are many more with deep expertise in the Web who aren’t participating—yet. Certainly MDN and the Web […]
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Dev Derby – a monthly competition of demos using open technologies
Starting from June, Mozilla runs a monthly competition to showcase newest web technologies. In an international competition individuals can submit demos that show the world just how much is possible using open and free technologies in a modern browser. The Mozilla Dev Derby happens every month and revolves around a certain technology. A panel of […]
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web developer survey update – help wanted!
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 […]
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MDN: The Kuma switch begins on July 5th!
Update 2012-07-06: The date when content editing switches to the new platform has been postponed to July 9th. There have been some stability and data center issues that slowed us down, as well as a few big bugs that have been resolved but still need to be tested. Hopefully by now you’re aware we’re switching […]