MDN Articles
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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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Doc sprint in [insert California cliché]
The last weekend in April saw yet another amazingly productive documentation sprint for MDN. A group of community members gathered at the Mozilla spaces in California, while others contributed remotely. The in-person group worked on Friday in Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters, then spent Saturday and Sunday at the Mozilla space in San Francisco. Here is […]
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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, 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 16, 2012
Documentation activity on MDN continues apace, with lots of work in the French localization, and a focus on CSS docs. Web standards docs Vikash Agrawal added a code example to HTML <figure>. David Baron clarified the standardization status of several CSS properties, such as -moz-background-inline-policy, -moz-user-focus, and user-select. Fred Bourgeon translated :first and :disabled into […]
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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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Save the Date: MDN Hack Day Comes to NYC on March 24
A bunch of us Mozilla Developer Network folks — web developers, technical writers, developer evangelists and cat herders like me — will be hosting MDN’s first Hack Day in the great city of New York. Like many teams who work together at Mozilla, we’re geographically dispersed, and manage to meet in real life a few […]
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State of the Docs, February 16, 2012
The ramped-up level of documentation contributions that started in January is surviving longer than most New Year’s resolutions. Keep it up! And as ever, thanks to everyone who contributed, whether you’re mentioned here or not! Help wanted Michael Deal contributed a great example page that shows how Canvas compositing works with partial opacity. Now it […]
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State of the Docs, Feb. 1, 2012
Here are some of the changes to the Mozilla Developer Network site in the week and a half since the recent doc sprint. Infrastructure woes We had a snafu for a few days last week when a server crashed in the middle of a move of the DOM reference hierarchy, causing many DOM reference pages […]
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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, […]