Survey Articles
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Presenting the MDN Web Developer Needs Assessment (Web DNA) Report
The first annual MDN Developer Needs Assessment aims to represent the voices of developers and designers working on the web. We've analyzed the data provided by more than 28,000 completed surveys, and we've identified 28 discrete needs, sorted into 14 different themes. Four of the top ten needs relate to browser compatibility, our #1 theme. Documentation, Testing, Debugging, and Frameworks round out the top five.
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MDN’s First Annual Web Developer & Designer Survey
Today we are launching our first annual MDN Developer & Designer Needs Survey. Web developers and designers, we urge you to participate! This is your opportunity to tell us about your needs and frustrations with the web. Your participation will influence how browser vendors like Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung prioritize feature development.
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Web Design Survey Findings and Next Steps
In November, I wrote about my team’s work on experimental new web design tools and introduced a survey to rank the challenges of web design and development. The insights you shared continue to inform priorities for the Firefox DevTools' 2019 roadmap. Our main takeaway: developers and designers of every experience level want a better understanding of CSS debugging. We're on it.
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Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers
Suppose you’re developing a sophisticated web game or application, and you’re wondering — will it actually be able to run? What hardware should I be targeting to get the widest possible audience? Existing hardware reports (such as those from Valve and Unity) are excellent, but represent a different group of hardware users than the majority […]
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Take the Developer Economics 7th Global Survey
I’ve always preferred to think of myself as anything but a Marketer. In business school, there was a clear hierarchy assigned to the functional classifications amongst us. At the very top sat the investment bankers, commanding the most respect and highest paying job offers. And always at the very bottom the Marketing folks groveled, earning […]
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Developer survey results: libraries and cross-browser on mobile?
At Mozilla, we are dedicated to keep the web open and independent of a single company or technology. This means that users should have a choice of browsers and technology to use to go online and should not be blocked out because they can’t afford a certain device or are forbidden to change their browser. […]
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HTML5 Web applications and libraries survey – first results
At Mozilla, we are dedicated to keep the web open and independent of a single company or technology. This means that users should have a choice of browsers and technology to use to go online and should not be blocked out because they can’t afford a certain device or are forbidden to change their browser. […]
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It's all about web developers!
Ever wonder which industries have the most web developers? Do you know how many people develop for the web on Linux? Are there more web designers out there than web developers? Where do web developers hang out and what do they think of the resources out there today? Which JavaScript library is the most popular? […]
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Are you a web developer or designer?
If you are a web developer or designer, we can use your input. After gaining some great insights from our previous survey on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5, we have decided to go broader and get a better industry-wide snapshot of web developers. We have created a new survey in our continued effort to better […]
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Results from our Developer Survey #2
To follow up on the developer survey from last November, we did a second survey this past March after the releases of Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5 to gauge developer reactions to the latest features in the browser and a much improved version of everyone’s favorite developer tool. In this post we’ll share the results of […]
