MDN Articles
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MDN sprint for better web tech resources — join in!
MDN is one of our most important resources, and the core of knowledge and sharing for developers around the world. Additionally, it’s one of the vital cornerstones for all information we share at Mozilla Hacks, so in whatever way you can take part, it is highly appreciated. – Editor’s note Over on the Mozilla Developer […]
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Introduction to Kuma: Templates and scripts
At just after 10 AM today, we switched over from our MindTouch based wiki to our new, Mozilla-built Kuma wiki platform for the Mozilla Developer Network, as I announced yesterday that we’d be doing. So far, all’s well! Over the next week or two, I will be sharing a few suggestions, tips, and bits of […]
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State of the Docs, March 30, 2012
This post got stuck in Drafts without getting published. Publishing now for the record. Tristan Nitot wrote a blog post describing how MDN does documentation the Mozilla way. It also gives a good summary of ways that you can help out. Upcoming events Plans are proceeding for the next MDN documentation sprint, April 27 to […]
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State of the docs, March 2, 2012
To organize and prioritize documentation work on Mozilla Developer Network, we are setting up a system for topic drivers. The person who is the driver for each topic area will prioritize the work for that subject and help ensure that things get written when appropriate. If you’re interested in driving the docs for a particular […]
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Starting 2012 with loads of doc updates
We’re aware of the problem on MDN in which error messages appear in place of code examples (and a few other places). This is due to a bug in the wiki platform software that causes some of its extensions to fail to load when a server restarts. The problem has been diagnosed by the vendor, […]
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JSConf EU fun and doc sprint results
At the just-finished JSConf.eu (European JavaScript Conference), Mozilla sponsored the Hacker Lounge, and held a doc sprint during the conference. The conference kicked off with Bella Morningstar, president of the Brendan Eich Fan Club (a.k.a. Mandy Lauderdale), serenading Brendan: JSConf.eu opening song – JavaScript Will Listen from Alexander Lang on Vimeo. Later, at Brendan’s request, […]
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Congratulations to our June Dev Derby winners!
We kicked off our series of monthly developer challenges in June to see what Web developers could do with CSS3 Animations. Our first ever Dev Derby was a huge success with almost 30 entries and a variety of demos that brought action to the Web without JavaScript. The results have been awesome! Early fan favorites […]
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Three(-way) cheers for the MDN doc sprint
Over the last three days, a group of Mozillians gathered in Cincinnati to eat N-way chili (and other cheese-laden dishes) and improve the MDN Documentation Center. This gathering was double the size of the first in-person doc sprint last October. The sprint followed after the Open Help conference, and shared time, space, food, and fun […]
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Another successful MDN doc sprint
While this weekend’s documentation sprint was smaller than the previous one, it represented significant steps toward achieving the goal of making Mozilla Developer Network a comprehensive, usable, and accurate resource for everyone developing for the web. Eric Shepherd created and refined (and the rest of us began implementing) a format and related templates for browser […]
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The European MDN access snafu
Over the last couple of days, we had a problem come up that broke access to MDN documentation from Europe. I thought I’d share an explanation of what happened because it’s a slightly interesting story, and our European users deserve to know. A few days ago, we started having a round of persistent spamming, with […]