MDN Articles
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Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and Object.freeze()
In January, the MDN engineering team landed a major refactoring of the KumaScript codebase, the underlying Node server that runs macros in Kuma, which is the wiki that powers MDN. This work included some modern techniques of interest to JavaScript programmers.
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Firefox 65: WebP support, Flexbox Inspector, new tooling & platform updates
Firefox 65 ships today with some notable Firefox Devtools updates, including the release of the CSS Flexbox Inspector, a new changes panel, and more. We're shipping CSS platform improvements and updates to a variety of JavaScript APIs. Firefox 65 supports the WebP image format, and support for AV1, an open and royalty-free video compression format, is shipping now in Firefox 65 for Windows.
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MDN Changelog – Looking back at 2018
John Whitlock highlights MDN's engineering accomplishments of 2018 - including major advances in converting MDN's documentation to structured data via the Browser Compat Data project, and in extending the Interactive Examples project with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML examples. Take a look at January's planned updates, fixes, and activiites.
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MDN Changelog for November 2018
MDN wraps up a year of hard work by shipping monthly MDN payments, converting from Font Awesome to SVG, adding browser names to compatibility tables, and growing the development team. Thanks to every one of the contributors who've helped us make MDN Web Docs better than ever in 2018.
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Performance Updates and Hosting Moves: MDN Changelog for October 2018
This month's changelog, from the hard-working engineering team that builds and maintains the MDN Web Docs site, covers performance improvements and experiments, infrastructure updates, as well as countless tweaks and fixes to make your MDN experience better and better.
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Payments, accessibility, and dead macros: MDN Changelog for September 2018
Changes and updates to the code, data, and tools that support MDN Web Docs. In September, the team launched MDN payments, improved MDN’s accessibility resources, and removed 15% of KumaScript macros. The team also shipped tweaks and fixes by merging 379 pull requests, including 66 pull requests from 38 new contributors.
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A New Way to Support MDN
MDN’s user base has grown exponentially in the last few years, so we are seeking support from our users to help accelerate content and platform development.
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Hack on MDN: Better accessibility for MDN Web Docs
Making websites accessible to a wide range of users is a vital topic for creators on the web. Over a long weekend in late September, more than twenty people met in London to work on accessibility on the MDN Web Docs website — both the content about accessibility and the accessibility of the site itself. The result was a considerable refresh and new opportunities to continue the projects begun.
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MDN Changelog for August 2018
In August, the MDN content community reviewed and merged 85 Browser Compatibility Data pull requests. This month, we’ll continue working on new interactive examples, converting compatibility data, and migrating MDN services.
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MDN Changelog for July 2018: CDN tests, Goodbye Zones, and BCD
Editor’s note: A changelog is “a log or record of all notable changes made to a project. [It] usually includes records of changes such as bug fixes, new features, etc.” Publishing a changelog is kind of a tradition in open source, and a long-time practice on the web. We thought readers of Hacks and folks […]
