MDN Articles
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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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State of the docs, December 7, 2011
This is part of a series of blog posts about new or changed content on MDN. Web standards docs New pages! Jeremie Patonnier continues charging through SVG DOM interfaces: SVGVKernElement SVGHKernElement SVGFontElement SVGMissingGlyphElement SVGGlyphElement SVGFontFaceElement SVGFontFaceSrcElement
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Making the wait for the holidays easier – the MDN advent calendar
Tomorrow we will release the MDN advent calendar at http://thewebrocks.com/calendar with a daily link on a web technology product, a MDN wiki page or a great demo collected by us over the last few days. You can get a preview of how the calendar will look and work here: As an extra bonus, we thought […]
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Congrats to our October Dev Derby winners!
Responsive design is more important than ever as people experience the Web on a variety of devices. Web developers can now take advantage of CSS Media Queries to build sites and applications that can be viewed on different screen sizes. So we decided to focus on that for the October Dev Derby. For this challenge, […]
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State of the docs, November 23, 2011
This is the second in a series of posts about new or recently improved content or infrastructure on MDN. This post was slightly delayed by the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (apologies). Web standards docs New pages! As the result of a discussion on the mozilla.dev.platform forum, Boris Zbarsky wrote an article on Writing forward-compatible websites, with […]
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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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Located: Winners of the September Dev Derby on Geolocation.
With more people going mobile and taking the Web with them, we thought Geolocation was a great topic for the September Dev Derby. Web developers explored a number of ways to bring your physical location into the Web experience and we had 16 demos submitted for the Dev Derby. Voting was tough this month, but […]
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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, […]