MDN Web Docs

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MDN Web Docs
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MDN Web Docs, previously Mozilla Developer Network and formerly Mozilla Developer Center, is a documentation repository and learning resource for web developers. It was started by Mozilla in 2005[1] as a unified place for documentation about open web standards, Mozilla's own projects, and developer guides.[2]

MDN Web Docs content is maintained by Mozilla, Google employees, and volunteers (community of developers and technical writers). It also contains content contributed by

WebExtensions, MathML, and others.[4]

History

In 2005, Mozilla Corporation started the project under the name Mozilla Developer Center,[1] and still funds the servers and staff of its projects.

The initial content for the website was provided by

DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL.[5][1] The site now contains a mix of content migrated from DevEdge and mozilla.org, as well as original and more up-to-date content.[6][7]
Documentation was also migrated from XULPlanet.com.

On Oct 3, 2016, Brave browser added Mozilla Developer Network as one of its default search engines options.[8]

In 2017, MDN Web Docs became the unified documentation of web technology for Google, Samsung, Microsoft, and Mozilla.[3][9] Microsoft started redirecting pages from Microsoft Developer Network to MDN.[10]

In 2019, Mozilla started Beta testing a new reader site for MDN Web Docs written in React (instead of jQuery; some jQuery functionality was replaced with Cheerio library).[11] The new site was launched on December 14, 2020.[12] Since December 14, 2020, all editable content is stored in a Git repository hosted on GitHub, where contributors open pull requests and discuss changes.[13]

On January 25 2021,[14] the Open Web Docs (OWD) organization was launched as a non-profit fiscal entity to collect funds for MDN development.[15] As of March 2023, the top financial contributors of OWD are Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Canva, and JetBrains.[16]

In March 2022, MDN launched a redesign with a new logo[17] and a paid subscription called MDN Plus.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Mitchell Baker (February 23, 2005). "DevMo and DevEdge updates". Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2008.
  2. ^ Willison, Simon (September 15, 2005). "The Mozilla Developer Center". SitePoint. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
  3. ^
    ZDNet. Archived
    from the original on October 21, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ^ "Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. December 14, 2012. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  5. ^ "About". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on November 13, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
  6. ^ "DevEdge". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
  7. ^ Deb Richardson (February 10, 2006). "Digging through the DevEdge archives". mozilla.dev.mdc. Google Groups. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2008.
  8. ^ "Brave Browser 0.12.3 Release Note". Github. Archived from the original on October 4, 2016. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  9. ^ Knox, Dru (October 18, 2017). "Building unified documentation for the web". Chromium Blog. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  10. ^ Erika Doyle Navara (October 18, 2017). "Documenting the Web together". Windows Blogs. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  11. ^ R, Bhagyashree (July 17, 2019). "Mozilla's MDN Web Docs gets new React-powered frontend, which is now in Beta". Packt Hub. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  12. ^ "Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  13. ^ "An update on MDN Web Docs' localization strategy – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  14. ^ "OWD Steering Committee call, 2021-01-20". GitHub. January 20, 2021. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021. OWD will go public on Monday, January 25th.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  15. ^ "Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  16. ^ "Open Web Docs - Sponsors". opencollective.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  17. ^ "A new year, a new MDN". hacks.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  18. ^ "Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own". hacks.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.

External links

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