MDN Articles
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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 […]
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MDN Changelog for June 2018
Our monthly changelog documents what happened in June to the code, data, and tools that support MDN Web Docs site. The team shipped 100+ HTML interactive examples in June. They additional shipped tweaks and fixes by merging 252 pull requests, including 32 pull requests from 26 new contributors. Finally, the team shipped Django 1.11 and laid the groundwork for a variety of performance enhancements that will roll out in July and beyond.
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@media, MathML, and Django 1.11: MDN Changelog for May 2018
May's MDN changelog highlights lots of stuff that got shipped to make MDN Web Docs so much better all the time. The team, with help from numerous contributors, migrated CSS @media and MathML compat data, prepared for Django 1.11, started tracking work in ZenHub, continued the HTML Interactive Examples project, and shipped tweaks and fixes by merging 397 pull requests, including 60 pull requests from 43 new contributors.
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CDN, BCD, and SVG: MDN Changelog for April 2018
The MDN engineering team reports on work accomplished in April and what's ahead in May. Some highlights: MDN Web Docs site moved to a CDN, improving page load time by 16%. The migration of browser compatibility data (the BCD project) continues apace, and is now 72% done. The team began the work of replacing font-based icons with inline SVG; the work to improve accessibility and localization with SVG icons continues. In April, 510 pull requests were merged, including 140 pull requests from 57 new contributors.
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Progressive Web Apps core guides on MDN Web Docs
Introducing the newly released Core PWA Guides on the MDN Web Docs site. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a new way of building websites, but are they really all that new? Key PWA strategies and associated features include progressive enhancement, responsive design, and mobile-first thinking.
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MDN Changelog for March 2018
Publishing a changelog is a tradition in open source, and a long-time practice on the web. In this changelog, MDN engineers report on what happened in March to the code, data, and tools that support MDN Web Docs, and look ahead to what's on plan for this month. Learn more about the work of the MDN engineering team and their impact, and discover opportunities to participate in building and supporting MDN Web Docs and the open web platform.
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Hack on MDN: Building useful tools with browser compatibility data
The MDN team is migrating browser compatibility data into a JSON database to make it more useful and extensible for web developers. On a recent weekend in Paris, a group of Mozillians and friends gathered to work on projects to improve and extend the BCD data. The Hack on MDN event combined unconference and hackathon; participants pitched projects and committed to working on concrete tasks. Check out the brilliant results of their collaboration.
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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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MDN browser compatibility data: Taking the guesswork out of web compatibility
The most powerful aspect of the web is also what makes it so challenging to build for: its universality. When you create a website, you’re writing code that needs to be understood by a plethora of browsers on different devices and operating systems. To allow for browser compatibility data to be accessed programmatically rather than requiring developers to manually search for it, the MDN community is working on migrating the compatibility information currently stored on thousands of wiki pages to a machine-readable JSON format in a GitHub repository.
