MDN Articles
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Short sweet doc sprint for March
This past weekend, a small band of hardy MDN contributors pitched in for the first of a monthly series of doc sprints. This sprint was organized on fairly short notice, yet a significant amount of work was accomplished. Web standards docs Jérémie Patonnier created a bunch of API reference pages for MozMobileConnection, and SVG attributes […]
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Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
Editor’s Note: This blog post is way out of date. The Mozilla Developer Network has grown a lot and changed its name to MDN Web Docs. In 2017, more than 8,000 developers contributed to 80,000 pages of content on the Mozilla Developer Network. Mozilla also teamed with Microsoft, Google, and other industry leaders to greatly […]
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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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Like MDN? Run a WordPress site? Promote MDN!
Do you like MDN and run a WordPress site? We made a WordPress Plugin to Promote MDN. You can install it thru your WordPress admin dashboard. It is based on WordPress developer extraordinaire freediver‘s SEO Smart Links plugin. Promote MDN automatically links keywords and phrases on your site to MDN – including past content! The […]
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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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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 […]
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Kuma: The updated editor experience
The editing experience on the new Kuma wiki that we’ll be deploying starting on July 5th is not enormously different from what you’re used to, but there are some key differences I’d like to call out. Getting into the editor Let’s take a look, first, at differences in how you get into the editor. Once […]
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MDN First steps
This is a guest post by Jérémie Patonnier. This article was originally published in French. For two years now, Jérémie has been an active contributor to MDN. He organizes short doc sprints each Wednesday evening at the Mozilla Paris office. During those events, people ask a lot of questions about MDN and how to contribute. […]
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HTML5 and the web of tomorrow – live from Web2Day in Nantes, France
I am currently here in Nantes, France at the Web2Day conference giving a talk on the topic of HTML5 and how it affects the audience (consisting of business people, startups, managers and a few developers. The slides of the talk are available Slideshare: The talk was streamed live via UStream and the recording is available […]
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MDN Learning: A place to ratchet your Web development skills
If you’re looking to improve your Web development skills, we have compiled some great resources from around the Web to help every level of developer dig into their favorite open Web technologies. Our new MDN Learning space serves as a starting point for anyone interested in learning more about Web development. While there is already […]
