Articles by Janet Swisher
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State of the docs, December 7, 2011
This is part of a series of blog posts about new or changed content on MDN. Web standards docs New pages! Jeremie Patonnier continues charging through SVG DOM interfaces: SVGVKernElement SVGHKernElement SVGFontElement SVGMissingGlyphElement SVGGlyphElement SVGFontFaceElement SVGFontFaceSrcElement
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State of the docs, November 23, 2011
This is the second in a series of posts about new or recently improved content or infrastructure on MDN. This post was slightly delayed by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (apologies). Web standards docs New pages! As the result of a discussion on the mozilla.dev.platform forum, Boris Zbarsky wrote an article on Writing forward-compatible websites, with […]
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Webinar: IndexedDB with Jonas Sicking
Update 2011-12-20: The video recording of this webinar is now available: IndexedDB is the emerging standard for structured client-side data storage. The IndexedDB standard is supported by current versions of Firefox and Chrome, and support for it is expected in Internet Explorer 10. With this growing maturity and support, it’s time to start experimenting with […]
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insertAdjacentHTML() Enables Faster HTML Snippet Injection
The following is a guest post by Henri Sivonen: In Firefox 8, we’ve added support for insertAdjacentHTML(). It’s an ancient feature of Internet Explorer that has recently been formalized in HTML5 and then spun out into the DOM Parsing specification. The bad news is that Firefox is the last major browser to implement this feature. […]
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State of the Docs, November 9, 2011
This is the first in a series of posts about new or recently improved content on MDN. This series will alternate with Wiki Wednesday posts, which will switch to every other week. The purpose of this series is to highlight articles that have changed recently, as well as to recognize the contributors who did the […]
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Webinar: Canvas with Rob Hawkes
Update 2011-11-10: Video of this webinar is now available: This video is also available on Vimeo. You can download the code that Rob demos in the webinar. You might also check out the recording of the webinar created by BigBlueButton. It syncs the audio with the slides and chat window using Popcorn.js. On the downside, […]
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JSConf EU fun and doc sprint results
At the just-finished JSConf.eu (European JavaScript Conference), Mozilla sponsored the Hacker Lounge, and held a doc sprint during the conference. The conference kicked off with Bella Morningstar, president of the Brendan Eich Fan Club (a.k.a. Mandy Lauderdale), serenading Brendan: JSConf.eu opening song – JavaScript Will Listen from Alexander Lang on Vimeo. Later, at Brendan’s request, […]
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Tagging docs for sprint at JSConf.eu October 1-2
We’re very excited to announce that Mozilla is sponsoring the Hacker Lounge at JSConf.eu and we will be holding a doc sprint at and during the conference. The focus of this doc sprint will naturally be docs for JavaScript and DOM. We hope to encourage attendees at the conference to contribute at least a little […]
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Web Standards Doc Sprint — Finis!
For the past three days, a small group of Mozillians met in Paris and, instead of enjoying the beautiful warm weather, insanely stayed inside and wrote documentation on web standards for the Mozilla Developer Network. We worked in the Mozilla Paris office on Saturday and Sunday, and then on Monday moved to La Cantine, around […]