Docs Articles
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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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New flexbox guides on MDN
With Flexbox and Grid, plus the related specifications of Box Alignment and Writing Modes, we have new layout models for the web, which have been designed to enable the types of layouts we need to create. Whether your interest is in being able to implement more creative designs, or simply to streamline development of complex user interfaces Rachel Andrews' thoughtful materials will help you to gain a thorough understanding of the power of Flexbox and Grid working together.
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Essential WebVR resources
With the release of the WebVR API v1.1, and WebVR support in Firefox 55, here's a collection of useful resources for WebVR development. From the landing page at vr.mozilla.org to the A-Frame website and community, here's everything you need to get started.
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Introducing sphinx-js, a better way to document large JavaScript projects
Go beyond the flat, alphabetical lists of JSDoc, and document your JavaScript libraries in a way that’s easier to learn. As a bonus, keep your old JSDoc syntax.
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May MDN sprint wrap-up
Here are some of the high points from the MDN sprint that took place last weekend, May 31st and June 1st. New content Mixed security content blocking is now turned on by default in Firefox Aurora. David Bruant and Xavier Borderie improved the Mixed content page and David created How to fix a website with […]
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MDN sprint for better web tech resources — join in!
MDN is one of our most important resources, and the core of knowledge and sharing for developers around the world. Additionally, it’s one of the vital cornerstones for all information we share at Mozilla Hacks, so in whatever way you can take part, it is highly appreciated. – Editor’s note Over on the Mozilla Developer […]
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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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How MDN and Web Platform Docs Align
We have been asked a number of questions since the launch of Web Platforms Docs (WPD) about how it aligns with the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN). Questions such as how content will be shared between the two, how changes will be tracked, who will do the work to port content, and which site people should […]
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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 […]
