Articles by Janet Swisher
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State of the Docs, April 24, 2012
The following is a sample of the changes to the documentation on MDN in the past four weeks. We expect a large flurry of activity during the Documentation sprint this weekend. If you’re in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to join in person for any part of the sprint, or join remotely if you’re elsewhere. […]
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State of the Docs, March 30, 2012
This post got stuck in Drafts without getting published. Publishing now for the record. Tristan Nitot wrote a blog post describing how MDN does documentation the Mozilla way. It also gives a good summary of ways that you can help out. Upcoming events Plans are proceeding for the next MDN documentation sprint, April 27 to […]
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Mozilla at SXSW 2012
Building on the momentum generated by Mozilla at Mobile World Congress last week, this week we’re rolling into Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. If you’re attending SXSW, please join us at events and sessions. Reminder: Daylight Savings Time starts on Sunday, March 11 at 2am. Clocks move forward one hour. Sunday sessions are earlier […]
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State of the docs, March 2, 2012
To organize and prioritize documentation work on Mozilla Developer Network, we are setting up a system for topic drivers. The person who is the driver for each topic area will prioritize the work for that subject and help ensure that things get written when appropriate. If you’re interested in driving the docs for a particular […]
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State of the Docs, February 16, 2012
The ramped-up level of documentation contributions that started in January is surviving longer than most New Year’s resolutions. Keep it up! And as ever, thanks to everyone who contributed, whether you’re mentioned here or not! Help wanted Michael Deal contributed a great example page that shows how Canvas compositing works with partial opacity. Now it […]
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State of the Docs, Feb. 1, 2012
Here are some of the changes to the Mozilla Developer Network site in the week and a half since the recent doc sprint. Infrastructure woes We had a snafu for a few days last week when a server crashed in the middle of a move of the DOM reference hierarchy, causing many DOM reference pages […]
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Starting 2012 with loads of doc updates
We’re aware of the problem on MDN in which error messages appear in place of code examples (and a few other places). This is due to a bug in the wiki platform software that causes some of its extensions to fail to load when a server restarts. The problem has been diagnosed by the vendor, […]
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How to get MDN swag (doc sprint January 20-21)
It has been far too long since the last MDN online doc sprint. For those of you who have been asking me when the next sprint is (yes, there are a few), you need wait no longer. We’ll be holding a sprint to work on MDN docs next Friday and Saturday, January 20 and 21. […]
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State of the Docs, January 4, 2012
It has been a slow couple of weeks for MDN doc changes, due to the holidays. However, a few things of note have happened. Web standards docs Jean-Yves Perrier continues working through the CSS reference. Now up to the letter F (font-*)! Jesper Kristensen added a browser compatibility table to Media formats supported by the […]
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State of the docs, December 23, 2011
Here are some of the changes to the Mozilla Developer Network site in the past couple of weeks. Web standards docs Ryan Havvy added an example to Logical Operators in the JavaScript Reference. Jean-Yves Perrier considerably improved Using CSS transforms, and wrote an article on the CSS visual formatting model. Jeremie Patonnier created pages for […]