Articles by Janet Swisher
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Hack on MDN: Better accessibility for MDN Web Docs
Making websites accessible to a wide range of users is a vital topic for creators on the web. Over a long weekend in late September, more than twenty people met in London to work on accessibility on the MDN Web Docs website — both the content about accessibility and the accessibility of the site itself. The result was a considerable refresh and new opportunities to continue the projects begun.
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MDN community news moving to about:community
News about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) community, such as doc sprints, community meetups, and so on, has a new home on the Mozilla about:community blog, in the Developer Engagement category. This category will also cover other news related to the community involved in developer engagement/relations/outreach/evangelism (whatever you want to call it) for Mozilla. Subscribe […]
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Short sweet doc sprint for March
This past weekend, a small band of hardy MDN contributors pitched in for the first of a monthly series of doc sprints. This sprint was organized on fairly short notice, yet a significant amount of work was accomplished. Web standards docs Jérémie Patonnier created a bunch of API reference pages for MozMobileConnection, and SVG attributes […]
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Learn and share about new topics every month on MDN
Did you have “expand my technical knowledge” as one of your New Year’s resolutions a few months ago? How’s that going? How about setting aside a day, or just a few hours, once a month, to teach yourself about a topic related to Web development, and share what you’ve learned with others? Wouldn’t it be […]
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Results of the Fall 2012 MDN virtual doc sprint
Over the weekend of November 30 to December 2, a hardy band of MDN contributors came together virtually (via IRC and etherpad) to work on improving documentation on MDN for Web standards and for Mozilla’s open technology and the project itself. Below are the highlights of the weekend’s activities. Web standards docs Saurabh Anand added […]
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Cheerio! to another MDN doc sprint
This past weekend, a group of MDN contributors finished another fun and productive documentation sprint, while enjoying the environment of Mozilla’s London office. Here’s a sampling of what we accomplished: < ul> Onur Avsar added the last remaining HTML elements that were undocumented (noframes, isindex, spacer, ruby, rt, and rp). The HTML element reference on […]
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State of the Docs, June 7, 2012
It has been four weeks since the last State of the Docs update, so there is much to report. As ever, this is just a selection of the recent documentation activity on MDN. Web standards docs Frédéric Bourgeon has done a lot of work on pages for CSS selectors, in both English and French including: […]
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State of the Docs, May 9th, 2012
By rights, today’s edition of “State of the Docs” should be a little light, since it has been only a week and a half since a very productive documentation sprint. But our amazing documentation contributors collectively do not rest, and so there is still lots to mention. Outside the usual categories of docs, Tom Lowenthal […]
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MDN downtime on May 8th, 2012
Update 2012-05-08: Thanks to last-minute magic by Mozilla IT, MDN won’t be completely unavailable after all. However, it will be running on a single virtual machine rather than three physical servers, so expect worse than usual performance during the time frame described below. Mozilla Developer Network will be down for maintenance and completely unavailable for […]
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Doc sprint in [insert California cliché]
The last weekend in April saw yet another amazingly productive documentation sprint for MDN. A group of community members gathered at the Mozilla spaces in California, while others contributed remotely. The in-person group worked on Friday in Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters, then spent Saturday and Sunday at the Mozilla space in San Francisco. Here is […]
