Docs Articles
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MDN virtual doc sprint, Nov. 30 to Dec. 1
It has been most of a year since we’ve held a virtual doc sprint for Mozilla Developer Network. (The last one was in January 2012.) A lot has happened in that time, most significantly, the switch to the new Kuma platform, and the steady addition of features to Kuma since its launch. So, let’s round […]
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Dev Resources to Hack the Future Web – Mozilla Ignite
Mozilla has been rolling out two new resources for developers to hack on the network of the future: Learning Labs to get hackers started using current web technologies such as WebGL or WebRTC on networks unconstrained by bandwidth, latency, or compute capacity. Developer Docs so you can quickly start hacking on the next generation of […]
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Welcoming the new kid: Web Platform Docs
Documenting the open Web and Web standards is a big job! As Mozillians, we’re well aware of this — documenting the open Web has been the mission of the Mozilla Developer Network for many years. Anything we can do to further the cause of a free and open Web is a worthwhile endeavor. With so […]
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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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BrazilJS Firefox OS Apps Hack Day: fun, games & JavaScript
BrazilJS Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A long way from where I live and work in Mountain View, California. BrazilJS—two intense, action-packed days of technology showmanship, conversation, and immersion in the exuberant developer culture of Brazil. And plenty of JavaScript, which sounds something like “Jhavascreep-chi” when pronounced in Brazilian Portuguese. The days […]
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5 ways you can contribute to MDN
The new Mozilla Developer Network platform, code-named Kuma, debuted earlier this month. Kuma introduced numerous improvements to the documentation site, including: much improved front and back end performance no reliance on third-party services vendors improved editing and translating interfaces enhanced macro creation language called KumaScript ability to more quickly push code to production ..and more! […]
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Kuma: Cool URL tricks
If you’re fiddling with automation, or want to be able to pull information out of the Mozilla Developer Network wiki, there are some helpful queries you can do with URLs that may help you out. Today, I’m going to share those. The Kuma API While we don’t yet have a writable API (we know this […]
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Introduction to Kuma: Templates and scripts
At just after 10 AM today, we switched over from our MindTouch based wiki to our new, Mozilla-built Kuma wiki platform for the Mozilla Developer Network, as I announced yesterday that we’d be doing. So far, all’s well! Over the next week or two, I will be sharing a few suggestions, tips, and bits of […]
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It's time: MDN relaunch on Kuma wiki on August 3
That’s right! We’re finally ready to throw the switch! Tomorrow (that is, Friday, August 3, 2012) we intend to switch from the current MindTouch-based wiki to our new Kuma platform for the Mozilla Developer Network wiki. The changeover should happen at about 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. At that time, there should be, at most, […]
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MDN: Wiki edits disabled for now
We have entirely disabled editing of the current MindTouch based wiki, without enabling the automatic redirection to Kuma, while we deal with a technical issue caused by our script that was automatically migrating every edit on the MindTouch site to Kuma. Once that is resolved, we should be able to enable the automatic redirects of […]
