Mozilla To Document Cross-Browser Web Dev Standards with Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and W3C (venturebeat.com)

Mozilla has announced deeper partnerships with Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and web standards body W3C to create cross-browser documentation on MDN Web Docs, a web development documentation portal created by Mozilla. From a report: MDN Web Docs first came to fruition in 2005, and it has since been known under various names, including the Mozilla Developer Network and Mozilla Developer Center. Today, MDN Web Docs serves as a community and library of sorts covering all things related to web technologies and standards, including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, open web app development, Firefox add-on development, and more. The web constitutes multiple players from across the technology spectrum and, of course, multiple browsers, including Microsoft's Edge, Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, and the Samsung Internet Browser. To avoid fragmentation and ensure end-users have a (fairly) consistent browsing experience, it helps if all the players involved adhere to a similar set of standards.

Comments

Fantastic

[XanC]

The MDN docs are some of the best around. It's surely one of Mozilla's most successful projects, and this will only make them more useful.

Re:Fantastic

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't tell if you're being ironic or not.

That says something about the state of the documentation and the people who use it.

(Me, I'm from a BSD background. I'm used to *good* documentation, to the point that I think most linux documentation is well below the minimum required to be usable, which is already a sight better than anything redmond has ever produced. No, the W3C doesn't remotely qualify either.)

Re:Fantastic

[Trailer Trash]

Yep. Now if they could just consistently get higher Google rankings than w3schools.

We need Mozilla

[tsa]

We need a non-commercial entity like Mozilla just for this.

Re:webplatform.org

[Hylandr]

Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/927/

Re:** Mozilla Supports EME ** NEVER FORGET **

[JohnFen]

Yes, but at least they didn't do what Google, Microsoft, and Netflix did: actively push the EME into the standard.

If it weren't for those three companies, EME would not have happened.

Re:** Mozilla Supports EME ** NEVER FORGET **

[tepples]

What makes EME worse than its predecessors Flash and Silverlight? Or how would you recommend implementing video rental, including termination of viewing privileges at the expiry of the rental period, without EME?

Re:** Mozilla Supports EME ** NEVER FORGET **

[JohnFen]

I absolutely agree, and readily condemn Mozilla for its weakness on this issue. But they're a minor devil in this play.

Re:** Mozilla Supports EME ** NEVER FORGET **

[modmans2ndcoming]

*eye roll*

Re: Apple not participating?

[DontBeAMoran]

Maybe the A12 will integrate Monero crypto-mining features.

Re:These moz://a docs shouldn't even be necessary!

[DontBeAMoran]

I tried reading W3C "documentation" a few times. It's so dry and devoid of real-life example as to be useless. It may be the way engineers write documents but it's not the kind of references I'm used to read as a programmer.

Re:** Mozilla Supports EME ** NEVER FORGET **

[tepples]

Why do you need termination of viewing privileges?

Because the studios charge a greater royalty for a transaction equivalent to a purchase of a DVD than for a transaction equivalent to a rental of a DVD.

Just consider every rental a purchase and be done with it.

A video service offering only purchases would probably fail would because few people are willing to pay $15 to watch a movie.

Stop trying to force outdated business models onto modern tech.

Tell that to the studios.

Can I have a couple hundred billion dollars?

[tepples]

How do you recommend going about crowdfunding several hundred billion U.S. dollars to acquire a controlling interest in the incumbent movie studios in order to force them to end their policy of price discrimination against rewatchers?