MDN Web Docs

MDN Web Docs
Type of site
 Wiki
Available in more than 25 languages
Owner Mozilla
Website developer.mozilla.org
Commercial No
Registration Optional
Launched 2005 (2005)
Current status Online
Content license
 CC-BY-SA v2.5+ et al.
Written in Python

MDN Web Docs, previously Mozilla Developer Network and formerly Mozilla Developer Center, is the official Mozilla website for development documentation of web standards and Mozilla projects.[1]

History

The project was started in 2005, and initially led by Mozilla Corporation employee Deb Richardson in 2005. Documentation efforts have been led by Eric Shepherd since 2006.[2]

The initial content for the website was provided by DevEdge, for which the Mozilla Foundation was granted a license by AOL.[3][2] The site now contains a mix of content migrated from DevEdge and mozilla.org, as well as original and more up-to-date content.[4][5] Documentation was also migrated from XULPlanet.com.

MDN has a discussion forum and an IRC channel #mdn on the Mozilla IRC Network. MDN is funded by the Mozilla Corporation with servers and employees.

With the release on Oct 3, 2016, Brave web browser features Mozilla Developer Network as one of its search engines option. [6]

About MDN

Mozilla Developer Network is a resource for developers, maintained by the community of developers and technical writers and hosting many documents on a wide variety of subjects, such as: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Web APIs, Node.js, WebExtensions and MathML. For mobile web developers, MDN provides documentation on subjects such as building a HTML5 mobile app, building a mobile add-on, and location-aware apps.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Willison, Simon (2005-09-15). "The Mozilla Developer Center". SitePoint. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  2. 1 2 Mitchell Baker (2005-02-23). "DevMo and DevEdge updates". Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  3. ↑ "About". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  4. ↑ "DevEdge". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  5. ↑ Deb Richardson (2006-02-10). "Digging through the DevEdge archives". mozilla.dev.mdc. Google Groups. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  6. ↑ "Brave Browser 0.12.3 Release Note". Github. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
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