Docs Articles
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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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State of the Docs, March 16, 2012
Documentation activity on MDN continues apace, with lots of work in the French localization, and a focus on CSS docs. Web standards docs Vikash Agrawal added a code example to HTML <figure>. David Baron clarified the standardization status of several CSS properties, such as -moz-background-inline-policy, -moz-user-focus, and user-select. Fred Bourgeon translated :first and :disabled into […]
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Helping with the MDN: what about linking to us?
We are working toward writing the best documentation about the Open Web. That’s a huge task but, day by day, our docs improve. Javascript is already considered an excellent resource, our CSS reference is now in pretty good shape, and a lot of work goes into our HTML, SVG and MathML documentation. Our Open Web […]
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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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Wiki Wednesday: February 22, 2012
Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and editing the articles directly, or […]
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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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Wiki Wednesday: February 8, 2012
Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and editing the articles directly, or […]
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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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Wiki Wednesday: January 25, 2012
Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and editing the articles directly, or […]
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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, […]