MDN Articles
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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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Helping web developers with JavaScript errors
Errors are one of the more frustrating things you encounter while programming. Those little messages in the console can ruin your entire afternoon, day, or week. When “undefined is not a function” appears yet again, it’s often time to get another coffee. Even if you use the one true JavaScript exception handler, and have a […]
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MDN downtime on May 8th, 2012
Update 2012-05-08: Thanks to last-minute magic by Mozilla IT, MDN won’t be completely unavailable after all. However, it will be running on a single virtual machine rather than three physical servers, so expect worse than usual performance during the time frame described below. Mozilla Developer Network will be down for maintenance and completely unavailable for […]
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State of the Docs, April 24, 2012
The following is a sample of the changes to the documentation on MDN in the past four weeks. We expect a large flurry of activity during the Documentation sprint this weekend. If you’re in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to join in person for any part of the sprint, or join remotely if you’re elsewhere. […]
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State of the Docs, November 9, 2011
This is the first in a series of posts about new or recently improved content on MDN. This series will alternate with Wiki Wednesday posts, which will switch to every other week. The purpose of this series is to highlight articles that have changed recently, as well as to recognize the contributors who did the […]
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Congrats to our August Dev Derby winners!
For our August Dev Derby, we decided to see what developers could do with the History API. We had 11 demos submitted and it was interesting to see how the History API creates new ways to interact with Web content. After all the votes were in, we had our August Dev Derby winners! 1st Place: […]
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Help improve MDN docs: Sprint April 1-2
The last documentation sprint was so much fun, we couldn’t wait to do it again. So we’re holding another one next weekend, from April 1 at 14:00 UTC until April 2 at 23:59 UTC: This is a online sprint, meaning that people will participate from wherever they are, coordinating via IRC[1]. Please join us for […]
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Revamp of MDN Web Docs Contribution Docs
The MDN Web Docs team recently undertook a project to revamp and reorganize the “Contribution Docs”. These are all the pages on MDN that describe what's what – the templates and page structures, how to perform a task on MDN, how to contribute to MDN, and the community guidelines to follow while contributing to this massive open source project.
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The 100% Markdown Expedition
In June 2021, we decided to start converting the source code for MDN web docs from HTML into a format that would be easier for us to work with. The goal was to get 100% of our manually-written documentation converted to Markdown, and we really had a mountain of source code to climb for this particular expedition. In this post, we’ll describe why we decided to migrate to Markdown, and the steps you can take that will help us on our mission.
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MDN Plus now available in more regions
Almost a month ago, we announced MDN Plus, a new premium service on MDN that allows users to customize their experience on the website. We are very glad to announce today that it is now possible for MDN users around the globe to create an MDN Plus free account, no matter where they are.