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MDN Web Docs
OwnerMozilla
URLdeveloper.mozilla.org
CommercialNo
Launched2005; 20 years ago (2005)
Current statusOnline
Content license
CC BY-SA v2.5+ et al.
Written in

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 Microsoft, Google, and Samsung who, in 2017, announced they would shut down their own documentation projects and move all their documentation to MDN Web Docs.[3] Topics include HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Web APIs, Django, Node.js, WebExtensions, MathML, and others.[4]

History

In 2005, Mozilla Corporation started the project under the name Mozilla Developer Center.[1] Mozilla Corporation still the funds servers and staff of the 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 (2005-02-23). "DevMo and DevEdge updates". Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  2. ^ Willison, Simon (2005-09-15). "The Mozilla Developer Center". SitePoint. Archived from the original on 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  3. ^ a b Tung, Liam (2017-10-19). "Developers rejoice: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla are putting all their web API docs in one place". 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. 2012-12-14. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  5. ^ "About". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  6. ^ "DevEdge". Mozilla Developer Center. Archived from the original on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
  7. ^ Deb Richardson (2006-02-10). "Digging through the DevEdge archives". mozilla.dev.mdc. Google Groups. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  8. ^ "Brave Browser 0.12.3 Release Note". Github. Archived from the original on October 4, 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  9. ^ Knox, Dru (2017-10-18). "Building unified documentation for the web". Chromium Blog. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  10. ^ Erika Doyle Navara (2017-10-18). "Documenting the Web together". Windows Blogs. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  11. ^ R, Bhagyashree (2019-07-17). "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 2019-07-18.
  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 2021-02-01.
  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 2021-02-01.
  14. ^ "OWD Steering Committee call, 2021-01-20". GitHub. 2021-01-20. Archived from the original on 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-02-01. 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 2021-02-01.
  16. ^ "Open Web Docs - Sponsors". opencollective.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  17. ^ "A new year, a new MDN". hacks.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  18. ^ "Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own". hacks.mozilla.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
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