MDN Articles
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Web Standards Doc Sprint — Finis!
For the past three days, a small group of Mozillians met in Paris and, instead of enjoying the beautiful warm weather, insanely stayed inside and wrote documentation on web standards for the Mozilla Developer Network. We worked in the Mozilla Paris office on Saturday and Sunday, and then on Monday moved to La Cantine, around […]
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the new about:hacks newsletter
Yesterday, we published the first issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers. If you asked to receive news and updates from Mozilla in our November survey, it should be waiting for you in your inbox. About:hacks will be published monthly, and will include demos, tutorials, Firefox release information, the latest on web standards and […]
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A Fabulous February Firefox — 86!
Looking into the near distance, we can see the end of February loitering on the horizon, threatening to give way to March at any moment. To keep you engaged until then, we’d like to introduce you to Firefox 86.
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January brings us Firefox 85
To wrap up January, we are proud to bring you the release of Firefox 85. In this version we are bringing you support for the :focus-visible pseudo-class in CSS and associated devtools, , and the complete removal of Flash support from Firefox. We’d also like to invite you to preview two exciting new JavaScript features in the current Firefox Nightly — top-level await and relative indexing via the .at() method. Have fun!
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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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State of the Docs, June 7, 2012
It has been four weeks since the last State of the Docs update, so there is much to report. As ever, this is just a selection of the recent documentation activity on MDN. Web standards docs Frédéric Bourgeon has done a lot of work on pages for CSS selectors, in both English and French including: […]
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How to get MDN swag (doc sprint January 20-21)
It has been far too long since the last MDN online doc sprint. For those of you who have been asking me when the next sprint is (yes, there are a few), you need wait no longer. We’ll be holding a sprint to work on MDN docs next Friday and Saturday, January 20 and 21. […]
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State of the Docs, January 4, 2012
It has been a slow couple of weeks for MDN doc changes, due to the holidays. However, a few things of note have happened. Web standards docs Jean-Yves Perrier continues working through the CSS reference. Now up to the letter F (font-*)! Jesper Kristensen added a browser compatibility table to Media formats supported by the […]
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State of the docs, December 23, 2011
Here are some of the changes to the Mozilla Developer Network site in the past couple of weeks. Web standards docs Ryan Havvy added an example to Logical Operators in the JavaScript Reference. Jean-Yves Perrier considerably improved Using CSS transforms, and wrote an article on the CSS visual formatting model. Jeremie Patonnier created pages for […]
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MDN vs. MSDN: Mozilla FTW
MindTouch, the developer of the software that powers the Mozilla Developer Network‘s documentation center, spent this week sponsoring a competitive battle, pitting MDN up against the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site in the areas of user experience, social features, engagement, and findability. They offered their thoughts on the comparison between the two developer network sites […]